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awesome-reMarkable
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E-ink is so Retropunk
> 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:
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My First reMarkable will be arriving sometime today! What are some things or tips and tricks I should know?
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.
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Best E-Ink tablet for self-hosting
More info can be found at awesome-ReMarkable: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable
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If I broke or lost my ReMarkable 2, would I be able to download all the old notes onto a new one?
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.
- What are you doing with community projects?
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Big note files - timeout on usb webserver export
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'.
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Any good 3rd party apps?
The Awesome reMarkable list (as show in this subreddit's sidebar) is a great compilation of mostly everything available. Some stuff isn't in there, but you can see more in the GitHub Topic.
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I love love love my RM2. Looking to take it to the next level. I am in need of a ToDo list that clears tasks when completed and allows me prioritize items.
Maybe you'll find something here that's good enough.
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Training room Remarkable
- https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable
- What operating system does the Remarkable 2 use?
Kernel_Unico
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Challenges Building an Open-Source E Ink Laptop
> From what I've seen working on an e-reader,
> f you want to use the nice partial refresh waveform, the open source aspect of this is going to run face first into secrecy requirements. The company selling you the display controller may be willing to build you an out of tree kernel module, and you can totally figure out what it does, but it won't be open source at that point.
I'm sorry but you're making rather clearly incorrect statements which makes me suspicious of the veracity of your other comments. I'm quite familiar with their current and past technologies. You used the term "Partial refresh waveform". First of all, E Ink's active matrix electrophoretic displays like the ones in the Kindle don't need to be refreshed. That's a fundamental property. Secondly, in case you meant "partial update", that's a property of the display controller, not of the waveform. You can google this and easily see that it in fact open source and commonly utilized. https://github.com/UDOOboard/Kernel_Unico/blob/master/driver... . Most modern EPDC even the hardware ones contain that feature and it is exposed as open source.
> run face first into secrecy requirements.
I'd like to see an elaboration of your claims. Please share what evidence you have about all this "secrecy". I work in the display industry, not for E Ink, and I've never heard of these things going on so it would be quite interesting for me to learn about it.
> They've figured out all the difficult stuff about e-ink
They meaning Remarkable? If so, then that's marketing-speak. The simple truth is that Remarkable's products all use NXP (formerly Freescale) controllers. The Remarkable2 uses i.mx7D. That has a built-in hardware EPDC. You can google it. The driver is open source. https://github.com/UDOOboard/Kernel_Unico/blob/master/driver...
That's what does all the "difficult stuff". Not Remarkable.
> did you know that to flip pixels, e-ink displays require annoyingly proprietary lookup tables of waveforms that can be up to 5-dimensional?
Yes. But you realize tables are each panel specific. Meaning every single panel you see requires a custom waveform. Nowadays they (E Ink and their partners)'re getting better and have some increased level of consistency so some waveforms can achieve the same result on whole batches of panels. But you'll still see it being batch specific. Take a waveform for one batch and try to use it on another and you'll get lousy ghosty results or maybe even damage the panel permanently.
> and worked with E-ink directly to implement said waveform table, very low-latency partial updates, and other e-ink "secrets" that could very well be worked out via reverse engineering but are otherwise under NDA.
That's more marketing speak. If you look at their code which they published, https://github.com/remarkable , it is just minor patches to NXP's driver. All the hard work was done by NXP.
What are some alternatives?
zotero-remarkable - Sync papers from Zotero to a reMarkable tablet
google-drive-remarkable-sync - Apps Script library for synchronising Google Drive folder with Remarkable reader.
remarkable-hacks - additional functionality via binary patching
mendeley-rMsync - Script to sync papers from Mendeley to reMarkable tablet
koreader - An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices
reMarkableSync - An OneNote AddIn for importing digitized notes from the reMarkable tablet.
toltec - Community-maintained repository of free software for the reMarkable tablet.
org-journal - A simple org-mode based journaling mode
remarkable2-hacks - A collection of hacks, mods, tools, tips & tricks, specifically focused on the reMarkable 2
remarkable2-recovery - recovery tools for reMarkable 2
netsurf-reMarkable - NetSurf is a lightweight and portable open-source web browser. This projects adapts NetSurf for the reMarkable E Ink tablet.
rmview - A live viewer for reMarkable written in PyQt5