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Opportunities to ask about these devices don't come up very often, so please help me decide what I want here: I want something that allows me to do math proble
by noobly 5y ago
Opportunities to ask about these devices don't come up very often, so please help me decide what I want here:
I want something that allows me to do math problems while laying down horizontally, mostly before bed. With a book and paper, it's a mess trying to do this, and I require e-ink. So I need good support for reading PDFs _and_ writing on screen, which is a niche apparently. I need split screen functionality or something like it, so I can have half my screen be scratch paper, and in the other half I can flip through the text (and I need a reasonably sized screen to accommodate all this). If I cannot do this, the device is not usable enough to purchase imo. I have no desire to take notes, draw or convert my writing to text. It would be a big plus if it could also read epubs as then I wouldn't need my current ereader.
I'm leaning toward the Remarkable 2, mostly due to it shaping up to be 'hacker friendly' (so I can lean on the community to write some features) and the writing supposedly feeling real, but I don't like how expensive the little pencil nubs are and having to replace them is kind of a drag. I tend to binge research my options a couple times per year but haven't pulled the trigger yet. I get frustrated because I feel like I want something so basic that it should already exist - just a book and scratch paper in one device, with a screen that doesn't keep me awake at night or distract me with a web browser. Anyway, last I checked the Remarkable 2 didn't quite have a splitscreen feature or anything close enough, so I opted to wait.
Would appreciate any input, I'm probably going to break down and buy one this month.
- maxrev17 5y agoI love my rm2 as a mental scratchpad, list maker, PDF reader, ebook reader etc. Etc. I have a trick, I bought the Lamy pen compatible with the rm2, and pushed the rm2 pen nib up it, makes for an awesome writing experience!!!!
- maxrev17 5y agoLink: https://www.lamy.com/en/emr/?languageRedirect=1&cHash=37ce4a08cf86a6163be8e56a0ba5b1ba https://www.lamy.com/en/emr/?languageRedirect=1&cHash=37ce4a...
- noobly 5y agoI am reading the rm2 doesn't reflow pdfs? Has this been a problem for you?
- maxrev17 5y agoI suppose coming from a Kindle, the screen space increase for me means I'm not that bothered. For me pdfs are formatted intentionally - so maybe take my words with a pinch of salt!
- dzogchen 5y agoCan recommend a Onyx Boox Max Lumi. It has a 13 inch screen and good split screen notes functionality. https://imgur.com/a/2CPy5O9 https://imgur.com/a/2CPy5O9
- noobly 5y agoThat looks great, 13 inch screen ensures no reflow issues too. Are you able to flip through the pages with minimal issues while in split screen mode, or do you have to manually resize the page each time? Also, it looks like you have this in 'landscape' mode - is that correct? Awesome feature if so. Too bad these are still so niche and therefore pricey, $800 is a painful price point for such a device imo.
- dzogchen 5y agoActually, it has a cropping feature that automatically crops each page individually. Zooming/cropping manually also works, and it doesn't get reset. Yeah I have it in landscape mode in the screenshot. I think the price has to do with the fact that E-Ink sells these screens for a lot of money.
- robinsoh 5y ago> I think the price has to do with the fact that E-Ink sells these screens for a lot of money. and what is this price? what volume? I am curious what this is based on since you state that "fact" with a lot of confidence.
- h3ctic 5y agoThe remarkable is not able to do split screen (for now). Instead, you can install the [ddvk hacks](https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable-hacks https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable-hacks) for fast switching between recent documents and a swipe to the previous document. I'd recommend the remarkable2 as the hacker friendliness makes quite a difference
- noobly 5y ago>fast switching between recent documents This is what my research told me last I looked too, thanks for the confirmation that this is still true. I believe RM will deliver long term, hacker friendliness goes a long way. Not sure if it's worth the price atm, but I'll look out for a cheap used one. I could do so much more critical reading if I could do it while lying down.