The Quiet Rise of E Ink Tablets – ReMarkable 2 vs. Onyx Boox Note Air

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  • remarkable-hacks

    additional functionality via binary patching

  • > For example, there's no direct switching between documents.

    In case you haven't seen it already: https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable-hacks

    The ddvk hacks are easy to apply and reversible. They add a bunch of gestures like instantly flipping between documents. One of my other favorites is a quick swipe gesture to switch to the last-used tool.

    I don't want to annotate PDFs and then only save the annotations, but it sounds like biff would help with that if you don't mind another tool in the chain: https://github.com/soulisalmed/biff

  • syncthing-android

    Wrapper of syncthing for Android.

  • I use Syncthing [1] to do all the syncing, works like a charm. I have a folder synchronized between my reader, my PC and my phone, and whenever I need to send a document to the reader or from the reader to my PC, I just put it into that folder.

    [1] https://syncthing.net/

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  • awesome-reMarkable

    A curated list of projects related to the reMarkable tablet

  • I'm a very happy ReMarkable 2 owner. I only wish it had been available much earlier: maaaan this thing would have saved me lugging around (and losing!) a gazillion duplicates of papers with different sets of notes on them during my PhD. I'm an incredibly disorganized person, and the RM2 has been an absolute godsend for me.

    Positives:

    * Build quality feels great.

    * Screen is super responsive when writing. And responsive enough when flipping pages (although I am not familiar with the state of the art ebook readers).

    * Pen feels really good against the surface. After a day's use it feels just as natural as writing on paper for me.

    * Hacker friendly: Tick a box under "settings" and it gives you the root password, and you just plug in a USB cable and SSH in as you please. Inside is a pretty standard Busybox-based Linux. All the cloud gizmos are optional. See also https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

    * Eternal battery life and perfect viewing angles and everything else you'd expect from this kind of screen.

    Negatives:

    * I would have like the screen to be just a liiiittle bit bigger. Some papers on A4 paper with smaller fonts cause me to squint a little unless I zoom in to crop out the margins (and if the margins aren't the same on each page, that's annoying).

    * The upselling price of the nice carrying cases and the "fancy" pen are a bit ridiculous. Thankfully, the fancy pen isn't really that useful to me, because I prefer the fill-erase mode anyway.

    * I often accidentally hit the power on button when carrying the thing.

    * I know they're trying to minimize physical buttons, but I would personally have loved a physical button (preferably on the pen!) to flip into (fill-)erase mode.

  • rmapi

    Go app that allows you to access your reMarkable tablet files through the Cloud API

  • I use rMAPI to push and pull stuff from the machine. Not sure if it works for the rm2 as well.

    Also, it requires storing your stuff on their servers ('cloud').

    https://github.com/juruen/rmapi

  • biff

    Extract text and images from highlighted pdf generated with reMarkable tablet. (by soulisalmed)

  • > For example, there's no direct switching between documents.

    In case you haven't seen it already: https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable-hacks

    The ddvk hacks are easy to apply and reversible. They add a bunch of gestures like instantly flipping between documents. One of my other favorites is a quick swipe gesture to switch to the last-used tool.

    I don't want to annotate PDFs and then only save the annotations, but it sounds like biff would help with that if you don't mind another tool in the chain: https://github.com/soulisalmed/biff

  • zim-desktop-wiki

    Main repository of the zim desktop wiki project

  • Event scheduling I do in "remind calendar" for Linux with a little notify-send.

    Most everything else in my life organization-wise, I use http://zim-wiki.org for. I just go through them and file them in ideas or todos.

    (I try to avoid using my phone as much as possible. The rule of thumb there is for, if it's not a real human communicating to me directly, I should try to just use the computer or not use it at all.)

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    Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>

  • That is cool; it was discussed on HN, submitted by the creator: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26790486

    I think that is like wearable computing input devices such as the Twiddler keyboard: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=twiddler2&iax=images&ia=ima... and the DataEgg was intended to hold notes inside it and be a standalone device.

    Related, the classic MicroWriter AgendA which was a PDA with chording and normal keyboards from the 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MicroWriter,_AgendA,_and_...

    I think it should be possible to build that pattern into a multitouch web page on a tablet and take chording notes on a flat screen.

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  • plover

    Open source stenotype engine

  • https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Supported-Ha...

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