reMarkable 2

I've had a reMarkable 2 since 2020 or so. To be honest, the only area of the device I have ever wanted to be hackable was the sync API. I am completely satisfied with the gestures, e-reader and pretty much everything else. But what I'd love to be able to do is to access my files, stored in the cloud, automatically. My use case in particular would be something that passively converts my scribbled annotations into other things. The API hacking scene is very much dead. Most API implementations have been unmaintained for years now and no longer work. It's a real shame.

Committing to Apple’s Reminders instead of continuing to fritz with various to-do apps. Reminders was good enough and I havent thought about switching in a couple of years now. For hardware+software, the Remarkable 2 tablet changed my life. I was never a handwritten notes person and was never even an organized person. I read some book on organization and was like, “I should try being organized.” Bought the Remarkable 2 with the logic that if I spent $500 on the thing and never used it, I’d feel like a moron. I’ve been using it daily for about 3 years now and just upgraded to the Pro and love it even more.

Yep. I'm a hardcore fountain pen user, to the point that I have a lathe sitting in my office behind me right now that I use to manufacture replacement parts for pens that have been out of production longer than I've been alive. Prior to buying the rM2, I kept all of my notes on Clairefontaine notebooks. I've stopped that completely and use the rM2. Their "fountain pen" tool is an adequate reproduction of the experience for everyday use in my opinion. I've been using it daily for around two years now, and have no real complaints. It's a very limited device, but they nailed it as a "replacement for paper and pen". I also have an iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, and have tried all the various screen protectors. They're all a worse physical experience than the rM2, and I've never found an app that has a fountain pen tool that comes close to being realistic in my opinion.

I did open the thread and didn't see an actual printer shown except the e-ink device but aside from that, I hate printers buy a cartridge it's empty after 3 prints wtf... now I just go walk into some store like Walgreens to print stuff If you like e-ink device reviews this is an artsy channel think small leather notebooks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oOqFUuULOk For me my favorite is the RM2 but I keep selling/buying it back due to poor financial decisions but I love how it writes and long battery, plus hackable, never paid for a subscription. It is an extra device too so unfortunately not used that often I spend most of my time in front of a desktop but have multiple laptops too/drawing tablets.

100%, and I go further to "don't buy hardware until it hits version 3" - version 1 is full of bugs, version 2 tries to include all the stuff they couldn't fit into the original version 1, so it's not until version 3 they've got a clear idea of what the thing should be and how to make it without bugs. I have been wrong (I love my Remarkable 2), but it still holds as a principle ;)

I did not update my ReMarkable 2 for years either and had probably the same clock issue. There was an article on the FAQ website from remarkable, if I remember correctly, that took me to a step-by-step process by which I could update it. Don't remember exactly how (I think I had to use the cable and connect to PC; which normally is not needed) but let's just say even if at first it seems like it doesn't work anymore and you have to hack it yourself, it is not actually needed. Nonetheless, this hackabality is the main reason I got mine (although I don't hack it, the optionality and thus probable longevity made the difference in my buying decision. I do not regret.).

Manually updating a config file to enable the web server was a wholly unnecessary step as that's just a toggle in the "Storage" section of settings. reMarkable software has its faults, but I keep coming back to them for the best-in-class hardware, developer-friendly platform, which itself spawned an active developer community. Could it be an easier platform to develop on? Sure. But that hasn't stopped a huge number of supported mods being made available

Remarkable 2 is pretty good, though last time I used it the search feature for large pdfs was pretty janky. The BOOX eink devices are also perfectly fine; they're really just android tablets with a special build of android for eink devices. Those are the ones I've used personally. Pocket Book still makes eink ereaders, though. Is there something wrong with their offerings if you stuck with one of their products for 15 years?

Yeah my remarkable2 was the only way for me finally to break free from paper bullet journals. And using a custom hyperpaper.me navigable pdf template was a game-changer. A few months ago I sold the rm2 and got an rm3 "paper pro" and despite the $$ it has ROI as a daily driver (alongside Obsidian running on my M4 macbook air).

I had a remarkable 2. I loved it until I got a pocketbook inkpad lite. Big enought, but with a backlight. and I loved that until amazon killed "download" for kindle books.

I have the ReMarkable 2 so I am biased here but these devices do more than replace paper. My fav feature so far has been screensharing from the ReMarkable 2 while on online meetings. So while their whole thing is about replacing paper, it actually does a lot more than just that.

I've been a reMarkable customer for quite a while now. I started with the reMarkable 2, then upgraded to the reMarkable Paper Pro. While I was using it consistently, it was a great device that allowed me to keep track of my notes in way I'd never been able to before. They have some great features. Chief among them IMO is the ability to stream the tablet's screen to a desktop app, which you can then in turn share into a Zoom call and the like. The issue for me is that as I began to spend more and more time in VR/AR - first with the Meta Quest 2/3 and Pimax Crystal, and then with the Apple Vision Pro - I simply stopped taking written notes while working. Now I mostly use it as a very fancy (and expensive!) eReader. Couple that with the fact that most of what I was writing down as notes is now context that I shove in prompts and/or agent context files... I simply don't use it enough to justify keeping it. They've fallen behind IMO with the rise of AI. This device would be amazing if they would automatically transcribe documents on the backend, feed them into a RAG, and allow access via a chatbot. They don't, though, and their API is undocumented and difficult to use. That kills it for me. I should probably list it on eBay or Facebook Marketplace at this point, and put those funds toward something that gets more use.

Kind of sad, I had both PP and PPP When they were "new" the tech was old already and then the lack of drivers for the camera for example which I can't talk, I'm not a driver developer. I thought it would make me get into developing drivers but I never did. Or writing Qt/C++ apps vs. cross platform/web that I was used to. For some reason I was obsessed with the thought of Dex/your phone being a computer if connected to a big monitor, it was cool using VS Code on the PPP but there would be problems. The external monitor I think was capped to 1920x1080 (if connected to a 1440P display a huge chunk was just static) I had my fun with it I was interested in the Pine 64 eInk tablet but that seemed to not be in stock at the time. I had the Remarkable 2 at one point, I want to get it again. edit: looks like the PineNote is in stock right now my consumer brain is getting tickled, might get a PineNote, what I liked about the RM2 is I didn't have to charge it for like a month was crazy, unfortunately PineNote doesn't seem to have that, and no tilt support on pen but ehhh. I don't know if RM forces you to have a subscription now, I didn't have it on mine when I got it in like 2022.