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I just returned my ReMarkable Pro. I found that split screen was something I wanted and though I had a work around with using my iPad much like Op here, it wasn

I just returned my ReMarkable Pro. I found that split screen was something I wanted and though I had a work around with using my iPad much like Op here, it wasn't ideal. The big nail in the coffin for me was difficulty integrating into my workflow / application stack. I had to use a couple scripts I hacked together to get the data from ReMarkable into the tools I use regularly. For the cost Invested I decided it was just too much. The tech wasn't bad, I was impressed with the build quality, and I think there is a market, without a Jailbreak / easy integration it's just not for me at this time. Bummer.

CrazyStat 2y ago
My Boox e-ink tablet has a split screen mode that I use regularly, but I wouldn’t use it on full page (A4/US letter) sized pdfs like journal articles as the text would be too small.
- thereticent 2y ago
  I chose the Boox over ReMarkable 2 for that reason and the color display. In split-screen, I pretty quickly got used to zooming in on a column or full body width and dragging the PDF around to read it. I guess it's not perfect, but still better than paper or traditional screen for me
ricardobeat 2y ago
What was your intended use for the split screen? It sounds like you wanted a tablet with an e-ink screen, which the Remarkable is ostensibly not. I bought my R2 originally with the same mindset, of jailbreaking it to run custom apps, but ended up loving it for what it is: the best and most expensive reading and note-taking device in our era :)
- ganoushoreilly 2y ago
  Primarily i'm looking for the ability to open various pdfs in a pane, and then have a nice section to write notes, reference those PDFs etc. It's probably doable with some process changes, I just didn't have the time for them. Post Christmas I may give it another shot.
johnbellone 2y ago
You can enable developer mode and remote into the device. There are several API frameworks for building extensions. This has been one of the better experiences with hardware (RMP) I’ve ever had. What else are you looking for in a “jailbreak?”
- codemonkey-zeta 2y ago
  Yeah parent comment might have missed that. RM2 gives you root access to a dead simple Linux system running on the device. There's literally nothing better than that. There's also a whole community of app developers for the RM, RM2 and now the newest one, search for Toltec. There's tons of options for writing simple scripts to interact with the Remarkable. It's my favorite feature!
  - jcgl 2y ago
    Source: RM2 owner I think you’re vastly overstating how hackable it is. Yes you have root, and yes that’s notable and praiseworthy. However, it’s not “dead simple,” practically speaking. The parts you actually care about (the display/touch logic, library management, annotations, etc.) are all inside a single, proprietary binary. A group of dedicated and extremely impressive hackers has done excellent work reverse engineering and packaging their work for others to readily use. But they’re always swimming upstream, having to work around the myriad issues surrounding this vital, proprietary blob. Case in point: the hacker community’s work on RM2 v3.4+ has been stalled for 6+ months now because of changes that Remarkable made to their proprietary system. Another example of how not-open the core functionality is: you can’t hack in your own two-way ebook sync logic because the remarkable’s blob one-way-converts all books to a custom binary format before the user can read and annotate them. Sure, you can hook into some of the sync logic by mocking their API (iirc) and doing some custom one-way-sync stuff (using tools from the truly impressive hacker community). But two-way sync? I’m not aware of anything. And it’s definitely not as easy as mounting some fuse filesystem that does two-way sync with some service that you can load with books. So yeah, the RM2 is just a simple Linux system only if you ignore the actual reading and writing functionality. It’s good to have root (I _never_ would have bought mine otherwise), but that’s not enough.
- 2y ago
DavideNL 2y ago
I had the same experience, when not using their cloud (for privacy reasons), syncing your docs / getting them off the device is very cumbersome. This totally breaks my workflow. I also tried jailbreaking, but it's all too finicky. It's yet another project to manage, instead of a solution / improvement.

CrazyStat 2y ago

My Boox e-ink tablet has a split screen mode that I use regularly, but I wouldn’t use it on full page (A4/US letter) sized pdfs like journal articles as the text would be too small.

thereticent 2y ago
I chose the Boox over ReMarkable 2 for that reason and the color display. In split-screen, I pretty quickly got used to zooming in on a column or full body width and dragging the PDF around to read it. I guess it's not perfect, but still better than paper or traditional screen for me

ricardobeat 2y ago

What was your intended use for the split screen? It sounds like you wanted a tablet with an e-ink screen, which the Remarkable is ostensibly not. I bought my R2 originally with the same mindset, of jailbreaking it to run custom apps, but ended up loving it for what it is: the best and most expensive reading and note-taking device in our era :)

ganoushoreilly 2y ago
Primarily i'm looking for the ability to open various pdfs in a pane, and then have a nice section to write notes, reference those PDFs etc. It's probably doable with some process changes, I just didn't have the time for them. Post Christmas I may give it another shot.

johnbellone 2y ago

You can enable developer mode and remote into the device. There are several API frameworks for building extensions. This has been one of the better experiences with hardware (RMP) I’ve ever had. What else are you looking for in a “jailbreak?”

codemonkey-zeta 2y ago
Yeah parent comment might have missed that. RM2 gives you root access to a dead simple Linux system running on the device. There's literally nothing better than that. There's also a whole community of app developers for the RM, RM2 and now the newest one, search for Toltec. There's tons of options for writing simple scripts to interact with the Remarkable. It's my favorite feature!
- jcgl 2y ago
  Source: RM2 owner I think you’re vastly overstating how hackable it is. Yes you have root, and yes that’s notable and praiseworthy. However, it’s not “dead simple,” practically speaking. The parts you actually care about (the display/touch logic, library management, annotations, etc.) are all inside a single, proprietary binary. A group of dedicated and extremely impressive hackers has done excellent work reverse engineering and packaging their work for others to readily use. But they’re always swimming upstream, having to work around the myriad issues surrounding this vital, proprietary blob. Case in point: the hacker community’s work on RM2 v3.4+ has been stalled for 6+ months now because of changes that Remarkable made to their proprietary system. Another example of how not-open the core functionality is: you can’t hack in your own two-way ebook sync logic because the remarkable’s blob one-way-converts all books to a custom binary format before the user can read and annotate them. Sure, you can hook into some of the sync logic by mocking their API (iirc) and doing some custom one-way-sync stuff (using tools from the truly impressive hacker community). But two-way sync? I’m not aware of anything. And it’s definitely not as easy as mounting some fuse filesystem that does two-way sync with some service that you can load with books. So yeah, the RM2 is just a simple Linux system only if you ignore the actual reading and writing functionality. It’s good to have root (I _never_ would have bought mine otherwise), but that’s not enough.
2y ago

DavideNL 2y ago

I had the same experience, when not using their cloud (for privacy reasons), syncing your docs / getting them off the device is very cumbersome. This totally breaks my workflow. I also tried jailbreaking, but it's all too finicky. It's yet another project to manage, instead of a solution / improvement.