I'm working on an e-ink theme for Obsidian[1]. So far it's working on Boox devices, but I wish I could get it running on reMarkable. I'm not as clued into the reMarkable ecosystem, does anyone know if they will eventually add an app store or better tools for developers?
This is a myth endlessly repeated without evidence. LCDs have patents up the wazoo (OLEDs etc, plenty of new screen techs), it didn't stop them being developed. E-Ink just doesn't ha e any economy of scale, and it hasn't had an easy route toward economy of scale in the future, it's fairly niche in it's use-cases when it's competing with LCDs.
If ReMarkable ever adds an app store, I'll eat my RM2*. They suffer from Apple syndrome and it goes against their "digital paper" schtick.
*No I won't.
Yeah, their whole product management is just downright obnoxious. Personally, I'm waiting for Supernote to open up their devices to 3rd-party devs.
The screen I am using doesn’t have touch input though, so it would only make sense if your app has non-interactive use cases.
For now, the only out-of-the-box app that my display comes with is a calendar with google calendar sync. I am looking for ways to extend that.
Maybe email me? (Email is in my profile.)
And here is the eink smart screen I am talking about: https://invisible-computers.com/
The idea I want to eventually pursue is set up a service where you could sync your pdf (or send specific pages via email), have them OCRed (including dates and titles specifically since they already live in well-defined parts of the pages), and then ingest them into your PKM for long-term storage and recall
Unfortunately Obsidian Cloud doesn't seem to have an API to support this at present, but I think it's theoretically feasible with Notion at least. Let me know if you build something like this :)