Biff Alternatives

biff reviews and mentions

• Exporting highlighted text pdf
  3 projects | /r/RemarkableTablet | 10 Feb 2023

  I am currently reading many books and papers and use highlighting a lot. My life would be a lot better if I could automatically extract the highlighted text. I tried several (by now outdated) solutions like Biff (https://github.com/soulisalmed/biff ), RCU and https://remarkable-web.vercel.app/ . The first two are apparently outdated, and the last I can't connect to (and all my files are >4 MB, so manual select doesn't work).

• digest-like feature?
  3 projects | /r/RemarkableTablet | 29 Aug 2022
• Update: I have deployed ReMarkable Highlights
  1 project | /r/RemarkableTablet | 16 Aug 2022
• What does your Remarkable enable you to do that a nice pen and notebook do not?
  2 projects | /r/RemarkableTablet | 18 May 2022

  How? Do you use https://github.com/soulisalmed/biff? Thanks!

• Essential 3rd party highlight collection tool (Biff) needs fixing since real highlights in 2.7
  1 project | /r/RemarkableTablet | 10 Oct 2021

  I just want to spread awareness that an amazing tool first posted here (github here) is lying in destitution since the 2.7 real highlight update.

• want to install this, but have no idea how
  2 projects | /r/RemarkableTablet | 10 Jul 2021
• The Quiet Rise of E Ink Tablets – ReMarkable 2 vs. Onyx Boox Note Air
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jun 2021

  > 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

• Annotating PDF's on Remarkble 2
  1 project | /r/RemarkableTablet | 15 Mar 2021

  I use mine quite a bit for annotating documents and presentations. Provided the screen size works for you (you have to be comfortable reading somewhat smaller font sizes than usual), it's quite good for how I work. As another poster pointed out, it follows a different model than most PDF readers, in that annotations are done just like on paper; you don't select text and highlight, you just highlight like you would on paper. My first reaction was that this was lame, but I've come around to feeling that it's probably the right approach for me, in that my mind is not constantly switching between reading and selection modes. Your annotations do sync back to the computer, but to get annotations out in a way that's reusable in other software, you have to use third-party software like "Biff": https://github.com/soulisalmed/biff (there are others too) Another positive thing about it is that because the interface is very sparse and you're working with it largely like paper, you don't have to devote mental load to worrying about accidentally pressing buttons onscreen or about whether palm rejection is going to work or not (at least if you're right-handed). I find that freeing.

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