PngNote VS awesome-reMarkable

I have been trying to (maybe foolishly) find a note taking app that works on the leaf 2. I bought a basic stylus and tried writing on this open source app called PngNote (https://github.com/karino2/PngNote) but it does not work very well. The experience is very laggy and buggy. I just want tue writing experience advertised like the note air of pro models.

It's accessible, the documentation just sucks. PNGNote (https://github.com/karino2/PngNote) can be a good reference.

The other Boox SDK app I know of is PNGNote, which I have used as a reference before.

PngNote: https://github.com/karino2/PngNote

For the Boox, check https://github.com/onyx-intl/OnyxAndroidDemo and the example https://github.com/karino2/PngNote

> I am

Feel free to join - I find there to be no good community for this so far (there was one on Discord, but the owner nuked it).

> There seems to be private APIs to do great software

Boox has an SDK that is a little bit documented here: https://github.com/onyx-intl/OnyxAndroidDemo

It's a bit hard to understand what component to use for what, if my motivation allows and you're interested I can look for my notes about it. I've personally used the third-party PNGNote as a nice reference: https://github.com/karino2/PngNote

A couple of examples from the community: * my Gentle Glow https://github.com/calin-darie/gentle-glow-onyx-boox * Karino's PNG Note https://github.com/karino2/PngNote https://www.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/p5hygq/pngnote_for_boox_note_app_for_boox_device_only/

I put normal Android version here https://github.com/karino2/PngNote/releases/tag/0.2 with the name PngNote_NonBoox_v0_2.apk.

> As much as I love the hacker spirit of cracking open hardware and software and bending it to your will (whether or not it was designed towards that end), I enjoy my reMarkable precisely because I can get away from the ubiquity of computing and needing to constantly tinker with and repair software.

Personally I completely agree with you, and could have written almost exactly that paragraph - I too have a ReMarkable (the 2nd / current version), and love using it as it ships for both note taking and especially for reading ebooks/PDFs ("especially" just because it's what I use it for more, not because that's what it's better at - in fact, it's UI for reading documents is among its weaker points and I hope they improve it in future software updates).

However it's worth pointing out that you can SSH into it, and there are a fair few 3rd party tools and hacks for it - so far I've avoided trying any of them as there's nothing that I want enough to have even a 1% risk of bricking it to worry about. But I'm tempted to start playing around with it someday.

This is the best list of stuff for the ReMarkable that I'm aware of, though I don't know how complete it is / how many released tools or guides there might be that aren't included here:

https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

There are options for USB/wifi syncing and lots of other community mods if you're handy with a terminal: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

If you follow the instructions and you are fine to turn automatic updates off, you may have a lool at awesome-remarkable https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

This sentence doesn't make sense. People apply hacks because they want to make full use of their device. reMarkable has shortcomings, yes, but they can be overcome with the software that others have written. The Awesome reMarkable link the sidebar was basically a founding document of this very subreddit.

More info can be found at awesome-ReMarkable: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

Use a software to manage your templates automatically. See the Awesome reMarkable list, and Ctrl-F "templates".

You can also take backups using easy, convenient, community-written software, like RCU (which I'm the author of), reMy, reMarkable HyUtilities, rmExplorer, rmAPI, and many others found in the Awesome reMarkable list.

You could try reMy, which has its own renderer. There are more rendering programs in the Awesome reMarkable list, many of which will work with 2.15 and below--just avoid anything saying 'cloud' or 'web UI'.