New Yorker: Can “Distraction-Free” Devices Change the Way We Write?

• rmrl

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  Render reMarkable documents to PDF

100% and yet it's still worth it. I write this as a programmer meaning that, ironically enough, my distraction is when I pick the reMarkable to start reading or sketching but despite the minimalist setup still get distracted. Not by social network notifications or the possibility of a web search but rather here for example to suggest you https://github.com/rschroll/rmrl for your PDF and if its too limited (it always is) to consider what prototypes I could build that challenge the very way I read and write. I believe it's worst for researchers because the process itself must be described in order to publish a result. One must step back and describe the experiment so that it can be both challenged and reproduced. Consequently there is always on the back of the mind a simple and justified question "Is this the right way to do that?". I believe it is quite taxing but it still worth because, and that's just my view, thinking itself relies extensively on tools. We like to imagine that it's a pure process of the mind but for any complex enough thought, we need tools. We run simulations, we sketch diagram, we organize a bibliography which represents the thoughts and experiments of others, etc. This is literally unmanageable without tools regardless of ones "intelligence". This in turns mean that the better the tool, at least in regard to the final goal, the further one can go.

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