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I got the Remarkable 2 and really liked the feel of writing and the build quality. But it has since landed on a shelf. The main reason for me is that it feels w
by captainmuon 3y ago
I got the Remarkable 2 and really liked the feel of writing and the build quality. But it has since landed on a shelf. The main reason for me is that it feels write-only, the notes I take disappear into it and I find it harder to search them than in notebooks. That's a pity because I think this is something where a digital device can excel. My wishlist would include:
- On-device OCR. I don't feel comfortable using it for anything sensitive as long as everything gets sent to the cloud. Come on, mobile processors get more powerful each year and AI has improved in leaps and bounds since the release of the Remarkable 2.
- Allow OCR without converting the document. You can either have a page as an image, or convert it to text. Why can't you OCR your text, keep it as an image, and have the letters stored behind the handwriting? PDF supports that without problems.
- Use handwriting in the UI. This is also big. Why do I have to use a crappy on-screen keyboard? I want to write a search term with the pen and then find the pages with the original highlighting selected.
Some nice to haves would be:
- Higher resolution. The e-Ink makes it look very crisp, but the resolution is actually quite low, and I cannot write as small as I write on paper.
- A more innovative UI. It feels a lot like Windows CE clicking on things with the pen. You could be scribbling circles to select pages, drawing crosses to activate checkboxes, and arrows to move things.