remarkable-engineering VS toltec

Probably 85% of what I do with it is within xochitl, the stock interface for taking notes. I don't use ddvk—it's too annoying to keep up to date—but I do use custom templates. (I'd love an official way to install templates and persist them across upgrades.) The reMarkable was a significant upgrade from my old paper notebooks, but I really missed the engineering-style grid paper I'd been using. So I made my own templates and use them. I wouldn't say I use custom templates because I'm upset with how the reMarkable is, but I wanted a little more than it gave by default.

It's not quite the same, but I made a series of engineering grid templates with grid lines at inch and centimeter intervals (on different templates for imperial and metric).

I found this. https://gitlab.com/asciiphil/remarkable-engineering/-/tree/master There are some other engineering templates out there.

My go-to is the ⅛ʺ grid engineering template. (I may be biased; I created it.)

Don't know if this'll work for you, but I adjusted the darkness on my engineering grid templates to a level that I thought looked good both on the device and exported. Adding custom templates can be a bit of a pain, but if you want to try, this might be a solution for you.

Here's the reMarkable wiki page on templates for easy clicking. I believe this is the white lines template and this is the engineering template you mentioned. (I made the engineering grid templates, so it makes me happy to see they're useful to other people, too.)

I deal with this in a couple of ways. First, I use some custom templates with a title and date area at the top of the page. I write both in thick ballpoint pen, which is readable from the page overview. That lets me skim through all my pages and find particular ones I'm looking for.

It's just linux under the hood and they give you root access. So you can install anything that you can compile, and you have access to all the compiled packages in entware [0].

For sync, I have wireguard and syncthing. For backups, I use rsync. For epubs, I have koreader. I even installed netsurf for fun, but I don't use it often. I was even using gocryptfs at one point, but that workflow kept breaking with updates so I stopped using that.

All of the tablets that I have seen perform handwriting recognition via a cloud service, so that doesn't interest me and I haven't come across any local solutions for rM (although it's been over a year since I last checked).

It's an unusually nice experience for such an open platform.

[0]: https://toltec-dev.org/

3.x support will come to toltec, I've been blocked by stuff outside of my control a couple of times. Including things happening in my life that I won't get into.

You can see the current progress here: https://github.com/toltec-dev/toltec/issues/820

As for the comment on the kernel change, that was actually an ask by someone in the community: https://github.com/reMarkable/linux/issues/8

I love seeing work in this space! I made a collaborative whiteboard app for the reMarkable a while ago: https://github.com/fenollp/reMarkable-tools

It is packaged in the homebrew Toltec repo https://toltec-dev.org/

Remember to read the warning on Toltec home page:

- https://toltec-dev.org/

Do you ever plan to put your own tools and stuff on it? If so I would reccomened staying on 2.15 so you can use https://toltec-dev.org/. Also newest version 3 software forces infinite scroll and a lot of people absolutely hate it. I happily stay on 2.10. You can change versions as well, unofficially. Not sure if using the cloud still works with that, lots of us have cut that out entirely.

Definitely start by installing toltec if your device is on version <=2.15.1.1189, https://toltec-dev.org