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Has anything improved recently for RM2 around secure sync to a LAN? Would like to experiment with one for my psychiatrist wife to replace her paper chart notes, but anything hitting an external cloud service is out of the question for patient information. Sync via cable would be too obtrusive. And I gather handwriting recognition etc. is done via cloud.

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There's no official solution, but,

It's just linux. It has ssh installed (it tells you the password in the "copyright and licenses" menu, and you can private keys on the device like normal). It connects to wifi. You can write a script that runs on the device and periodically syncs notes somewhere (I have this setup with restic for backups).

Handwriting recognition is done by cloud, and, I mean, unless you want to set up your own software for handwriting recognition (doesn't sound easy) you would need to give up that feature (I have)...

DIY handwriting recognition is actually really easy using Microsofts SaaS offerings. The results are astonishingly good too - it makes mincemeat of my awful handwriting.

That's really interesting actually, thanks for letting me know!

Not sure trading out remarkables cloud for microsoft's cloud is exactly what OP wants though ;)

You might be better off with an e-reader running full Android. I use Syncthing Fork, and it lets me do two-way sync between my tablet and a Macbook, which acts as a local server. No middleman cloud service required.

If you run syncthing on android you lose its power management. Also it's a horrible OS for long running services for other reasons, one of the largest being how huge apps are and how it quickly kills things when memory gets low.

I am using Syncthing Fork from F-droid, and you can configure it to respect Android's power saving features. Besides, you can turn sync off entirely if you choose.

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