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I’ve bought myself a reMarkable 2 with the approach that „I’m just getting an expensive toy” (ie not an everyday work tool, just a nice gizmo). And it’s been gr
by nathell 4y ago
I’ve bought myself a reMarkable 2 with the approach that „I’m just getting an expensive toy” (ie not an everyday work tool, just a nice gizmo). And it’s been great, if a bit pricey. (On the flip side, I have a free subscription.)
Some things I’ve used it for, so far:
- To write handwritten.blog.
- As a notebook. Nothing much to mention here. Being able to pick a page template (plain/dotted/lined/squared) is nice.
- Reading PDFs. Kindle won’t quite cut it, even with k2pdfopt – the screen size makes a difference. Plus, you can annotate them!
- Reading code. `npx repo-to-pdf some-repo` and then proceed as above. Great for getting oneself into a full-focus mode.
- Live-sketching at conference calls. I just share the reMarkable screen to my Mac and then share the companion app’s window on Zoom. Tried it out twice during internal brown-bags, worked very nice.
- As an actual toy. Getting grandma’s picture onto an e-ink screen and being able to draw a moustache lights up a big smile on my 8yo niece’s face.
- echelon 4y ago> handwritten.blog This is so cool!
- reustle 4y agoClickable https://handwritten.blog/ https://handwritten.blog/
- akamaka 4y agoIs it easy to use for reading daily news, or would that require some hacking to get my news content to transfer to it automatically?
- geewee 4y agoAlso have a remarkable. While hacking it is reasonably easy, you would need to do a bit of it to make this work smoothly I think.
- funksta 4y agoThere's nothing in the main ecosystem for getting news content on the device (besides manually sending individual articles to the rM via the chrome extension). I'm working on a project that pulls from RSS/Twitter/Reddit, formats all your subscriptions into a single pdf, and syncs to Google Drive (which the rM can sync with). It's working great for me so far but is the closest to "automatic" I think you can achieve with the device right now.
- akamaka 4y agoThat’s great to hear, thanks for your response. I think I’ll buy it and try to hack together something similar for my news sources.
- jan_g 4y agoHey there, does sharing the screen to Mac require some kind of cloud sync? If so, is there any noticeable delay from sketching on the device to appearing on Mac?
- AnyTimeTraveler 4y agoI wrote pipes-and-paper[1] which sort of shares your screen without any cloud. Getting to what the display puts out is difficult, but recording the pen strokes isn't. So what I wrote is a small webserver that runs on the reMarkable (1 and 2) that sends the penstrokes to the webbrowser via Websockets. It draws all penstrokes on a camvas in the browser and also deletes strokes when the eraser is used. [1] https://github.com/AnyTimeTraveler/pipes-and-rust https://github.com/AnyTimeTraveler/pipes-and-rust
- BossingAround 4y agoI love your blog, but I must say I can't read it for longer than 1 or 2 minutes. That probably says more about me than your blog for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if that was a common experience.
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- ge96 4y agoThe HN GPT-3 summarizer is cool. How is the accuracy?