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The issue is how you define what a note even is. Some people say it’s just plain text; some demand support for images; some want to attach arbitrary files; some
by bobbylarrybobby 6y ago
The issue is how you define what a note even is. Some people say it’s just plain text; some demand support for images; some want to attach arbitrary files; some want rich text/markup, and some demand markdown specifically while others don’t care about the underlying format; some want simple tables, while others want full databases in their notes; some want to organize with folder and tags, while some just want tags, while some just want folders, while some want notes to live inside other notes.
With so many definitions of what a “note” is even supposed to be, it’s no surprise that we haven’t settled on a single way to create and edit them.
- hartator 6y agoTotally true. I've ended up a mix between ReMarkable 2 e-ink tablet for meetings notes, Apple Notes for things like grocery lists, and regular folders on a cloud for long term archiving and references.
- Mister_X 6y agoOT, but I've had a MobiScribe e-Ink tablet for almost a couple of years now, I use it daily for notes and diagrams, fantastic tool, but that ReMarkable 2 e-ink tablet looks worthy of a closer look, Thanks! Oops, just checked, mine has a backlight, and the ReMarkable is even more Closed than my MobiScribe, fail.
- xyquadrat 6y agoI'm not sure what you mean by > the ReMarkable is even more Closed than my MobiScribe, fail. The ReMarkable is comparatively very hackable and open, see for example https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable/ https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable/. It doesn't have a backlight though, that's true.
- robinsoh 6y ago> Oops, just checked, mine has a backlight, and the ReMarkable is even more Closed than my MobiScribe, fail. Are you certain about this? I was told that remarkable is open source. But I have not verified this myself. But I see tools like https://github.com/torwag/remarkableflash https://github.com/torwag/remarkableflash which suggest it is possible to recompile what software remarkable has published and then flash it on to the system. Please double check either way.
- hartator 6y agoThe ReMarkable is pretty open, you can ssh on it without mod! Their CTO is a former KDE developer or something in the like I believe. Overall, ReMarkable 1 and 2 are pretty awesome. It's a cool tool to take ton of notes without having to worry about loosing anything. Just wish their search feature was OCR. This is truly missing.
- johntash 6y agoWhat do you think of the ReMarkable 2? It looks really interesting, but for the price tag I would be scared I won't use it enough. Do you ever share notes you make with it or are they purely for your own reference?
- hartator 6y agoMostly my own reference, I did share .png of some mockups to our front end designer. That was cool I suppose!