I have purchased a Remarkable 2, which I’m so far enjoying quite a bit. Do any of you have specific recommendations for extensions/hacks/workflows for that device?

I get marketed this device hardcore. What do you use it for?

someone has one at work. it's SO NICE TO USE. not sure I could justify making the jump from pen and paper though. but i really want to

Joining the chorus — someone at strange loop had one and showed it to me (re: my involvement in ink and switch). It seemed super nice.

@Grant Forrest @alltom • I read more than most people, often 20-40 papers/week and ~300 books/year. As more and more of that has been on glowing screens rather than paper, it has aggravated my eyes and led to more/worse dry eye symptoms. The e-ink display on the Remarkable has been a great improvement. • I find pen and paper an excellent medium for thinking about things, but don’t love that the results aren’t machine readable. OTOH drawing with a Wacom keeps me at my desk and has the glowing screen problem (see above). The highlighting, annotation, and scribbling experience on the Remarkable is surprisingly good, and I’ve whipped up some code for exporting drawings and annotations as SVGs. In terms of future possibilities, it’s a funny little Linux machine to which I can

ssh

, so I should be able to make it do anything. If I weren’t so overloaded with other tasks, I’d consider a port of SketchPad for old time’s sake. 🙂

You can ssh? 😮 Are files and notes in pretty standard formats? If I can script it from my laptop… I think I want one.

I have a remarkable, but it’s mostly a glorified postit note I use very occasionally. Didn’t know it had ssh access! Yet another potential side project idea to explore 😅

• [reMarkable Connection Utility](http://www.davisr.me/projects/rcu/) is a neat companion app. ◦ @alltom I believe the notes format is proprietary, but this app and other available scripts can at least export to PDF, and may be able to export to other formats. From a quick search it seems the format has been at least somewhat reverse engineered. • This script is very convenient for sending PDF and EPUB files to the tablet: https://github.com/adaerr/reMarkableScripts ◦ I think their web service / app might do this, but I can't connect the tablet to my WiFi so I have mostly avoided that. • At one point I got VNC running and was using the tablet as a second screen for my laptop to see if an eInk monitor could help with my eye strain. It wasn't great (it's not designed for that) but it worked and is a notable power of the Linux/SSH access. • I haven't tried most of them but people do crazy things on the device: https://remarkable.guide/

The fact that there’s a community guide is nice.

I stayed away from this device because I thought you had to pay a subscription in order to sync

Good news: it works great without interacting with their servers at all. 🙂 (Otherwise I would not have bought one!)

It's not so much a workflow, but it took me way too long to realize that there are built-in templates for single and grand music staves.

Yeah! To those who haven’t used one of these: there are layers (in the photoshop sense) on each notebook, and it comes with a fair number of templates, which are just pre-made layers. So, for example, you can add a sheet music layer, or a grid, or perspective drawing lines, then draw on another layer and later export what you’ve written/drawn with or without the underlying template. It’s a nice mechanism.

Okay, okay, mine has left the warehouse.

There’s also a package manager for open source stuff that runs on the tablet: https://toltec-dev.org

So just to check, even if you don't use their subscription, there are tools to sync docs to other services that run on device? This thing is way more hackable than I expected.

yes, you can more or less ssh into it and do whatever you want

I like being able to have a shared folder (google drive or something) with my pocketbook inkpad and android tablet, so I don't have to remember to sync anything. Is that easy with the remarkable 2?

You can install Linux software on the tablet, so I don’t see any reason you couldn’t install a client that copies files to a bucket or whatever. OTOH, and in the short term, the free tier of their service will also sync to other devices via an iOS or Android app.

I’m sorry, you read around 300 books a year? That’s increadable, just on a human feat level!

Hello, World!

Oh I just realized I made a pun by writing inc*read*able

My friends, this tablet is amazing for active reading. You can slip blank canvases in-between pages when the margins aren't big enough! I'm having fun and reading a lot. So far, my needs have been satisfied by the built-in web server: navigate to a directory, drop PDFs into it. But as my needs evolve, I'll let you know if I come across any interesting extensions, hacks, or workflows @Jack Rusher!