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I still wish it was slightly more than that. If I could read my emails on that thing instead of my violet screen, I'd consider it for work.

by m-p-3 9y ago

Jedd 9y ago
> I still wish it was slightly more than that. You are describing a combination of 'perfect is the enemy of good' and feature creep. Assess the qualities of the product as shipped, assume good faith on behalf of the people doing the build & ship, and determine if the price & features are appropriate for you.
- rhaps0dy 9y ago
  Also you can make an email app with the Qt toolkit they released! It doesn't require super fast refreshes like the drawing app, so you should be able to make it work. Email can be distracting from studying a document though.
  - reacweb 9y ago
    We already have a phone with a decent email app. If "pages" and pdf files can easily be exchanged or synchronized with your phone, you do not need email app.
thaumaturgy 9y ago
No. I own one. I've had mine since last November. I love it. I love it in large part because when I'm working on it, I -can't- read email, browse HN, read blogs, check on a server. The only thing I can do is put thoughts to words and diagrams. What you want is a tablet, maybe something from Amazon. The ReMarkable is intended for a different audience, people who remember what it's like to be undistracted and want that again.
- wvenable 9y ago
  For $600 it better do more than that. If I wanted something to write on that does nothing else I'd just use a pad of actual paper. And that's the real competition for a device like this -- paper. I think it would need to come down in price significantly for it to be just what you want it to be.
  - thaumaturgy 9y ago
    I have put a few hundred pages of notes through this thing since I've had it. That's a lot of paper I don't really want to carry around. I have old notebooks, binders, loose-leaf collections of everything from letters to myriad projects to random musings. My notes on this are organized into folders. When I'm at a SAR meeting, I tap "SAR", and there's everything from the last meeting and training notes and anything else I might want to reference. When I'm at work, I tap "[Job]", and there's the graphs, notes, and complex as hell SQL and database layouts and everything else I've been working on lately. I don't have to scribble out sentences from pen and paper, instead I can neatly erase them from the screen and rewrite them. It has become my tool of choice for first draft, second draft, third draft, and final draft writing to people I care to write to. When I'm working out a flow chart or application logic or something else that I'm struggling to get my head around and ordinarily would run to paper for, I use this instead, because when I need to reorganize different bits I can just draw a circle around them and drag them elsewhere on the screen. And, after doing all of this, I can back all of that up to my laptop. Go ahead and do that with your pad of actual paper, I'll wait while you find a scanner and fight to get the stupid paper feeder to work. If the thought of being unplugged and focused on a single thing doesn't exhilarate you, if it terrifies you, that's fine, this isn't the device to you. I'm not going to cheer it on to those folks; frankly, at this point, I hope ReMarkable is able to avoid that audience, because they're going to ask for all the wrong things. But I don't spend a lot of money and when I first saw this thing I immediately wanted it because it's exactly what I've been wishing for, for a long time now. Ever since the Newton, at least. It's valuable at that price to me and to a lot of other people.
    - plasticchris 9y ago
      Type what you can, draw diagrams on white boards or paper and take pictures of what you can't. Very simple and cheap workflow.
- Kiro 9y ago
  No, most people are not like you. Saying "impossible to do other things" is a main feature is just nonsense.
  - thaumaturgy 9y ago
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJX4ytfqw6k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJX4ytfqw6k
    - Kiro 9y ago
      Your comment is not stated as an opinion though. "The ReMarkable is intended for a different audience, people who remember what it's like to be undistracted and want that again."
- s73v3r_ 9y ago
  Again, I feel that, if that's all it does, it should not cost $600. And should not have the input lag demonstrated in the review.
grahamburger 9y ago
I have one. You kind of could, you can import PDFs to it. I've considered setting up some kind of automated flow to do that mainly for emails that turn in to larger projects or meetings for easy note-taking. That said, the only real feature I wish that the device had is a backlight. Other than that it's pretty perfect as it is - just a notebook replacement, nothing more or less.
diffeomorphism 9y ago
There is a large ereader by onyx that you can use as an external screen: https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/onyx-boox-max2-pro-13-3-inch-e-reader-review https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/onyx-boox-ma... Otherwise, most other ereaders also have webbrowsers, but you would want to get the ReMarkable for the pen experience (the large one linked above also has a wacom pen, but more latency)

I still wish it was slightly more than that. If I could read my emails on that thing instead of my violet screen, I'd consider it for work.

by m-p-3 9y ago

I still wish it was slightly more than that. If I could read my emails on that thing instead of my violet screen, I'd consider it for work.

Jedd 9y ago

> I still wish it was slightly more than that. You are describing a combination of 'perfect is the enemy of good' and feature creep. Assess the qualities of the product as shipped, assume good faith on behalf of the people doing the build & ship, and determine if the price & features are appropriate for you.

rhaps0dy 9y ago
Also you can make an email app with the Qt toolkit they released! It doesn't require super fast refreshes like the drawing app, so you should be able to make it work. Email can be distracting from studying a document though.
- reacweb 9y ago
  We already have a phone with a decent email app. If "pages" and pdf files can easily be exchanged or synchronized with your phone, you do not need email app.

thaumaturgy 9y ago

No. I own one. I've had mine since last November. I love it. I love it in large part because when I'm working on it, I -can't- read email, browse HN, read blogs, check on a server. The only thing I can do is put thoughts to words and diagrams. What you want is a tablet, maybe something from Amazon. The ReMarkable is intended for a different audience, people who remember what it's like to be undistracted and want that again.

wvenable 9y ago
For $600 it better do more than that. If I wanted something to write on that does nothing else I'd just use a pad of actual paper. And that's the real competition for a device like this -- paper. I think it would need to come down in price significantly for it to be just what you want it to be.
- thaumaturgy 9y ago
  I have put a few hundred pages of notes through this thing since I've had it. That's a lot of paper I don't really want to carry around. I have old notebooks, binders, loose-leaf collections of everything from letters to myriad projects to random musings. My notes on this are organized into folders. When I'm at a SAR meeting, I tap "SAR", and there's everything from the last meeting and training notes and anything else I might want to reference. When I'm at work, I tap "[Job]", and there's the graphs, notes, and complex as hell SQL and database layouts and everything else I've been working on lately. I don't have to scribble out sentences from pen and paper, instead I can neatly erase them from the screen and rewrite them. It has become my tool of choice for first draft, second draft, third draft, and final draft writing to people I care to write to. When I'm working out a flow chart or application logic or something else that I'm struggling to get my head around and ordinarily would run to paper for, I use this instead, because when I need to reorganize different bits I can just draw a circle around them and drag them elsewhere on the screen. And, after doing all of this, I can back all of that up to my laptop. Go ahead and do that with your pad of actual paper, I'll wait while you find a scanner and fight to get the stupid paper feeder to work. If the thought of being unplugged and focused on a single thing doesn't exhilarate you, if it terrifies you, that's fine, this isn't the device to you. I'm not going to cheer it on to those folks; frankly, at this point, I hope ReMarkable is able to avoid that audience, because they're going to ask for all the wrong things. But I don't spend a lot of money and when I first saw this thing I immediately wanted it because it's exactly what I've been wishing for, for a long time now. Ever since the Newton, at least. It's valuable at that price to me and to a lot of other people.
  - plasticchris 9y ago
    Type what you can, draw diagrams on white boards or paper and take pictures of what you can't. Very simple and cheap workflow.
Kiro 9y ago
No, most people are not like you. Saying "impossible to do other things" is a main feature is just nonsense.
- thaumaturgy 9y ago
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJX4ytfqw6k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJX4ytfqw6k
  - Kiro 9y ago
    Your comment is not stated as an opinion though. "The ReMarkable is intended for a different audience, people who remember what it's like to be undistracted and want that again."
s73v3r_ 9y ago
Again, I feel that, if that's all it does, it should not cost $600. And should not have the input lag demonstrated in the review.

grahamburger 9y ago

I have one. You kind of could, you can import PDFs to it. I've considered setting up some kind of automated flow to do that mainly for emails that turn in to larger projects or meetings for easy note-taking. That said, the only real feature I wish that the device had is a backlight. Other than that it's pretty perfect as it is - just a notebook replacement, nothing more or less.

diffeomorphism 9y ago

There is a large ereader by onyx that you can use as an external screen: https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/onyx-boox-max2-pro-13-3-inch-e-reader-review https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/onyx-boox-ma... Otherwise, most other ereaders also have webbrowsers, but you would want to get the ReMarkable for the pen experience (the large one linked above also has a wacom pen, but more latency)