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One thing that's rarely mentioned about this device, but is the reason I sprung for it, is that the developers left an SSH interface into the device over USB, so you can program custom apps!

People have made some neat stuff, and there's a Rust library for making apps: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

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This is what I was looking for and their website fails to mention it on the landing page, at least. Would you know of any Emacs/org-mode extensions for this device? Thank you for sharing!

You are my spirit animal.

I just got a polar/readwise/orgmode/Anki setup together and I'd love to use this.

Same setup almost! I am a student, just starting to use Anki, been using Polar since it same out, will get Readwise subscription soon. Just want to integrate RM2 pdf highlights with Polar.

Will buy RM2 when pocket permits. It's going to be a tough decision be an iPad and RM2, recently came across Liquidtext iPad app, it's so good.

I've been really happy with an x1 yoga so far.

Ooh, sounds cool! What does that workflow look like?

Polar and org feed into Anki. Readwise gets Kindle highlights, will try to get safari sync working.

Would love to hear more in general if you have time to go into more detail, but my main question is at what point do you convert highlights into question and answer or clozed deletion Anki cards and how do you reference the source on those Anki cards for when you want to go back and read more details from the original source? I guess that's two questions

Ah. I try to do the card creation while I'm taking the notes in the first place. I'm not sophisticated with clozed yet, just Front/Back for Anki right now. That works well both for org-anki and for polar bookshelf.

Readwise lets me make an annotation clozed while reviewing it, which is nice. It auto-converts highlights into questions.

I'm experimenting with different card types in org-anki, using yasnippets. That's a nice workflow. I need to look into auto-collapsing them after I'm done editing them.

since it has SSH support, it is a linux with command line tools and you can write not just your own applications but use as well an external keyboard... (build your own fantasy from here because no one has solved your exact problem for you yet)

https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/e8p22h/re...

It’s really refreshing when someone in business actually embraces the open standards that brought us here.

Have they really embraced it though? Or this is an undocumented debugging port which may go away in a future software update?

Martin Sandsmark, the CTO, is a KDE developer and long-time Arch Linux community...guy.

It's not going away in a future software update :)

That is just one person, who can leave.

Or be overruled.

or actually do something good. why all the glass half full

Experience. A great deal of computing has trended towards locking out user control. Hopefully this is an exception, but I understand why people are pessimistic.

The trouble is that you can always assume that systems will become closed. If that's true, there's nothing to be hopeful about ever. It may be true in the majority of cases, but you have to give someone a chance at some point.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13072748

that is encouraging

Kobo is kinda open in a way too, some nice stuff from the homebrew community for it.

My kobo device got stuck in a boot loop and when I opened it up I saw the internal storage was a micro sd card. Put it in my computer and found a full linux system. Deleted the user database and the device booted again. I also saw there was a recovery partition so I probably could have fixed it from a button combo but still, cool stuff.

With this in mind I would buy it, but with current pandemic it will have to wait.

Links/lynx should work great on such a device.

There are e-ink tablets that are basically just Android, supporting Android apps. Does remarkable have any advantage over those? I mean having a custom OS (even though with SSH) compared to the vast ecosystem of android apps and dev resources surely sounnds like a huge drawback.

I don't think they want to as android demands more resources for areas they might not use at all because of their claims of distraction free environment. Android also includes more technical debt for the development team, probably even to dedicate a few people to keep with the changes and upgrades in the communities and ecosystems.

Could you point me to one of those? I have a hard time believing there are low-latency drawing e-ink tablets that run full Android and render ordinary android apps.

Onyx Boox series. I am sure there are usage videos on youtube. In my experience it is very responsive, although maybe remarkable is more responsive still?

They do render ordinary apps even. e-ink aware apps work best, but all apps work one way or another. They have even implemented some functions to make any app work well like custom contrast settings or ability to refresh screen at any point, or automatic low-latency mode for when app animates a lot, etc. Some versions even have an ability to work as an external screen (they have an HDMI port). So you buy a reader, but you in fact also get an external e-ink screen that works with any computer, in the same device. I guess it will be a long while before remarkable adds something similar? Or does it have it?

That is very cool. Does it apply to reMarkable 2 as well?

Is there terminal support?

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