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Remarkable Paper Pro has me drawing more

Remarkable Paper Pro has me drawing more

There’s certain things I enjoy about having e-ink tablets in my life. I truly love having some of the benefits of technology, without the downsides of more screen time. This year my goal was to minimize time spent on social media and doom scrolling; so I’m journaling more, drawing more and reading more. My new reMarkable Paper Pro and Kindle Colorsoft have been essential in helping.

I love octopuses. They’re so smart and so cool. So I did a tutorial to learn how to draw one. I sketched it first, then outlined and stippled with the fine ink pen and used the shader tool (in grey) to add some depth.

Thanks for looking ☺️

u/DangReadingRabbit — 11 days ago

It’s frustrating without internal links, but I’m managing for now by using Tags.

But even tags have their problems.

For example, why does every tag I create show up in every notebook? If they are system-wide by default, there should be a checkbox to make them “this notebook only” when creating a new tag.

There should also be a way to sort them. As my tag list grows over time, sorted by “most recently created” isn’t ideal. And lack of sorting is made worse by the fact every notebook shares all tags.

Here’s an example. I have a journal and have a tag (January, February, March, etc.) at the start of each month. I have a knitting notebook. I have tags for each type of project (sweater, socks, scarf, etc.). I have a work notes and task list notebook, with tags like pending, external, group projects, long-term goals, to-do lists. My work notebook doesn’t need the knitting tags. My knitting notebook doesn’t need the monthly tags. My journal needs neither set of tags.

And why, when navigating to a specific page, isn’t there the option for last page? I realize you can type in the number, but just out of curiosity”first” and “last” next to “go to page…”

This is the kind of stuff that makes me realize the developers aren’t users. If they were, stuff like this would frustrate them as much as anyone else, and they’d fix it.

I love my reMarkable paper pro (and still love my rM1), but things like this drive me crazy. There really are some simple improvement they could make to the software that could make the user experience top notch.

Edit: I also realized this tonight: If you create a tag and tag a page with it, fine. But then if you untag that same page, it automatically deletes the tag completely? In other words, if no pages are tagged with “Tag-Name” then “Tag-Name” gets deleted. WTF?

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u/DangReadingRabbit — 15 days ago

To keep it as short as possible… I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 2001. No meds because I’m allergic to too many things.

I’ve been dealing with dry eyes the last couple of years. I always chalked it up to allergies until recently when it’s been much worse. I also have had very dry skin, dry nose all my adult life.

Have had chronic dental health issues as long as I can remember, despite good hygiene.

As part of my fibromyalgia, the usual: aches and pains, off and on fatigue, concentration issues.

And recently, had a bad case out of nowhere (so it seemed) of smoldering diverticulitis that led to major surgery.

My family is like an autoimmune repository 🤣 And I have it on both sides… lupus three generations back on dad’s side; rheumatoid arthritis and CREST syndrome on mom’s side.

I’ve never has a positive ANA (but not tested in the last two years). My inflammatory markers can often be up.

I’m going to talk with my doc about it, but just wondering others experiences with possible Sjogrens, dry eyes and related symptoms. I only learned about it recently because of this dry eye nonsense.

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u/DangReadingRabbit — 19 days ago