hyperpaper-planner VS The-Open-Book

I'm a big fan of my rm2, too -- and am writing to respond to this:

> "I’d also love a more formal diary / daily entry system. Kind of like Obsidian’s daily notes. Some kind of date-based notebook inside the Remarkable would be rad (even if it doesn’t sync with your actual calendar!). A daily journaling / diary / planning format would be great. (Yes, right now you can select a day-planner template, but you can’t then see them in a calendar view - the date isn’t a foundational element of the note)."

Take a look at https://hyperpaper.me

> https://hyperpaper.me/ Configurable, highly linked PDF planner with a very responsive person behind it (I figure he must be around here somewhere :))

Hey, that's me :D

Thanks for the shout-out Ethan, I'm happy to answer any questions people have about hyperpaper

Building your own templates is pretty fun, but look out because it can turn into a real rabbit hole if you get into it (in my case, a full side-project: https://hyperpaper.me)

Obligatory plug: I make a customizable planner that might work for you: https://hyperpaper.me/ There are demo files available so you can try out the pdf planner approach and see if it fits what you're looking for

Hi, I make https://hyperpaper.me/ and it's pretty customizable! For your points specifically:

use a pdf that supports extra pages per day (I make this one which lets you add 1-2 extra pages for every day)

I've done a lot of work with pdf linking for hyperpaper and link handling can be a bit finicky across e-Ink devices (not just for the rM2). In Canva do you specify the name/path for these internal links? Sometimes non-ascii characters in there aren't supported

I'm not seeing any, but there is also a paid option for creating notebooks that have a similar set of features and with more customizability: https://hyperpaper.me/. It looks like it might be more usable for left-handed people, as in the demo PDF.

pdf files that have links "baked in" before they are uploaded to the rM2 will work, however. Most software (eg Canva, InDesign, etc) for creating pdf files will support adding links in some way. Or you can use off-the-shelf tools for creating linked pdfs (https://hyperpaper.me/ is my project that does this specifically for devices like the rM2)

Have you seen the "Open Book" project?

https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

Open book project https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

If you want to get all custom, you could build an e-reader https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-pico-powered-open-source-ebook-reader

>I really wish I could have an e-reader, but again, I don't want to spend money on things that will lock me into a single vendor indefinitely and might just arbitrarily go away.

https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

This may be up your alley.

It's not a commercial off the shelf product, but the Open Book uses a 4.2" screen. There are other devices you can find on places like AliBaba that are kinda small. However, in general you won't find a name brand commercial ereader under 6" that isn't ina phone body. There were a couple at 5" back-when but the industry really settled on 6" as the common base size.

This is very useful to see examples of how people have used APIs that are either poorly documented or not at all. Or even that are well documented, really. Going from docs to code is not always straightforward.

To give you just one example, recently I've been using it to find how people have written code to interface with e-ink displays. I usually have the datasheet which lists all the commands the protocol support, but building it all into a valid startup sequence of ~20 commands to activate the display is left as an exercise for the reader.

So the docs will look like this: https://www.waveshare.com/w/upload/6/6a/4.2inch-e-paper-spec...

And what I need is a sequence like this: https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book/blob/5c5054c58...

There is a link to the project early in the article: https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book