url2epub
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url2epub
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Show HN: CLI for generating beautiful PDF for offline reading
Somewhat similarly, I wrote a web app to generate epub (instead of pdf) out of urls and send to eink reader(s) directly (via a telegram bot) so I can read them. Currently it supports sending epub by email (for kindle) or uploading epub to dropbox (for kobo, etc.). It originally also supports reMarkable cloud but we can no longer make reMarkable cloud actually work. There's also a REST api to generate epub to be downloaded directly: https://github.com/fishy/url2epub/blob/main/REST.md
For e-ink readers epubs are generally better than PDFs for urls anyways, as epubs are basically packed htmls, and also the flow text works better on smaller screens.
- Omnivore – free, open source, read-it-later App
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Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
I wrote a service (Google Cloud Run as the backend, with Telegram bot as the frontend) to generate readable ePub from URLs and send directly to e-ink readers. It was originally wrote for reMarkable 2 (using reMarkable cloud), I recently added support for Kindle (by using the send-to-kindle emails). The code is at https://github.com/fishy/url2epub and I blogged about the recently added kindle support at https://b.yuxuan.org/url2epub-kindle.
I'm open to suggestions on what other e-ink platforms to add, as long as they have a reasonable cloud API. I'm also looking for a good e-ink platform to move to personally, as it becomes apparent that reMarkable really doesn't want third parties to use their proprietary cloud "API".
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ReMarkable 2
2. It's a relatively open system (compared to other e-ink readers), so it's pretty fun in terms of hackability.
I did get the forever free subscription which helps, but I also totally understand why they would want to charge for that, and I think the new $3/month is a pretty reasonable price for it.
Regarding instapaper use case and also hackability, shameless plug: I wrote https://github.com/fishy/url2epub for my own use case, so instead of relying on a third party service and manually sync stuff to reMarkable 2, I just send the link to the telegram bot (I picked telegram bot so that I can easily send links from my phone, not only desktops), and the epub will be auto synced to my reMarkable cloud account (they did made some changes to the cloud api causing I have to manually open their official mobile or desktop app to sync once before the reMarkable 2 itself would accept the new epub I uploaded through url2epub, haven't figured out how to avoid that yet, but it's still mostly automated).
- Instructions on how to send articles from your iPhone to reMarkable
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Zenreader: A 4.7 Inches E-Ink RSS Reader Powered by ESP32
For reMarkable, I also wrote a Telegram bot to convert http url into ePub and send to reMarkable directly: https://github.com/fishy/url2epub
(if you don't like telegram or don't use reMarkable, it also comes with a public rest API to generate epub out of urls)
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Show HN: Epub.to – ePub to pdf, ePub to mobi, ePub to kindle, and an ePub API
Shameless plug and this is only loosely related: Over the last holiday season I wrote a backend (written in Go and running on App Engine) to convert http url into epub. The frontend is a telegram bot that sends the epub to your reMarkable account directly, but it also has rest api to download the epub file: https://github.com/fishy/url2epub/blob/main/REST.md
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Show HN: Create ePub Out of URL
With the purchase of reMarkable 2, I have this need to easily send web articles to my reMarkable 2 from my phone, while officially they only provided a Chrome extension, which can only be used on desktops.
As a result I wrote some go code (https://github.com/fishy/url2epub) for the past 2 days, to generate ePub from URL. I also implemented reMarkable API to send them to reMarkable tablets directly.
The current UI for it is implemented as a Telegram bot (https://t.me/url2rM_bot?start=1), running on AppEngine (code: https://github.com/fishy/url2epub/tree/main/appengine). I initially considered making an Android app for the UI, but decided that Telegram bot is less work for me, and works good enough for this use case (sorry for people who don't use Telegram, but this also means that people on iOS, desktop, etc. will be able to use it).
For the future, I might do:
- Expand the URLs supported (currently it only supports URLs with an AMP version provided, and the AMP version does have article tag inside)
remy
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Archiving Tagged Notebooks?
What I do is I create backups with rsync (so "low-level" backups of the actual data the tablet is using to represent the notebooks, not just the rendered pdf). Then I use Remy to browse them if needed. (Disclaimer: I'm the developer of Remy) It currently lacks a way to export/import the notebooks in native formats (that would allow you to restore archived ones through the GUI) so if you need that you need to do it manually, which requires some basic knowledge of how the notebooks are internally stored.
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My remarkable arrives today. Which hacks do you recommend?
reMy and RCU are the best alternative desktop clients. The former has a focus on notebooks, while the latter is focused on ease-of-use and does it all (templates/notebooks/wallpaper/and much more). Both use their own rendering engine for custom PDF export options. Neither installs anything to your tablet, so they usually work through software updates. (Disclaimer: I am the author of RCU).
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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.
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High Size PDFs and Cloud
You could use something local, that uploads over SSH instead of the Web UI. The Web UI and rM Cloud choke on files over a few hundred MBs. reMy + 2.x firmware might be what you're looking for -- it has sync capability. (I assume OneDrive has something like a shared PC folder that you can use as the target directory.)
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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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OCR/LaTeX Update
Mathpix has this functionality and is cheap. I integrated it into Remy, see here for a demo (although it's a bit outdated, the app has now way more features). It's not a fully fledged integration, I was planning to use it for having a search index that could match on handwriting but had no time to implement it.
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Exporting highlighted text pdf
If you need support for the new v3 software update, not sure. Otherwise Remy can do that for you
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So, which file management tools are you still using?
I use my own Remy tool (in conjunction with rsync for backups). Unfortunately it is not working with v3 just yet but I plan to eventually add support for it, once the effort to reverse engineer the new file format settles.
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Support for Remarkable lines version=6 File Format (.rm files)
You're not alone :-); we started discussing it here https://github.com/bordaigorl/remy/issues/49
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Continuous scrolling is the most frustrating thing I have seen
But parsing and rendering are two different things. RCU used to use the remy parsing, while the developer put considererable effort into the rendering himself. Yet he wasn't satisfied (I was) and started to completely rebuild it. That's where he lost interest in RCU :-(
What are some alternatives?
M5Paper_FactoryTest
awesome-reMarkable - A curated list of projects related to the reMarkable tablet
lines-are-beautiful - C++ File API for the reMarkable tablet
rmfakecloud - host your own cloud for the remarkable
KindleUnpack - python based software to unpack Amazon / Kindlegen generated ebooks
reMarkableWeb
seleneCMSBundle - Add CMS functionality to your Symfony Apps
rsync-time-backup - Time Machine style backup with rsync.
is - an inspector for your environment
rmirro - A script that synchronizes PDFs of documents between a Remarkable and a computer folder that mirrors its file structure without cloud access
golang-samples - Sample apps and code written for Google Cloud in the Go programming language.
rmapi - Go app that allows you to access your reMarkable tablet files through the Cloud API