r/RemarkableTablet

As someone who owns both the Move and RMPP and use it daily, quite extensively - I"m starting to get highly concerned about the viability and future of Remarkable. Obviously with their significant job cuts in the last 3 months, that's concerning - but for a company that has built itself on marketing, they've been suspiciously quiet lately. No posts on Linkedin/Instagram etc for 3 months is very unlike them.

Anyone else contemplating their migration plan?

Has anyone had this problem too? Since updating to 3.27.3.0 I´m having a stupidly high amount of ghosting. I can´t even turn one page or close a document that almost all that image or file or text freezes as i close it or turn it.

Is there a way i can downgrade to another previous firmware?

TLDR the realization: it is far easier to just steal borrow the ebooks I already own from the internet than it is to mess with de-DRMing them 😭

I have really been enjoying my RMPP this last month. I’m still finding new ways I can customize it and this is truly exactly the type of gadget I needed as someone who is at a crossroads of “slightly tech savvy” and “easily overwhelmed by software stuff”.

DRM stuff is so annoyingly frustrating. I fully blame Bezos, McGraw-Hill, Pearson, Elsevier, etc. the whole lot of them, but not Remarkable. Just crazy we have allowed companies to gatekeep knowledge like this. It’s not even the writers or artists doing the gatekeeping, that I might understand a little more. It’s just giant monopolies who exist only to profit who are keeping our purchases behind a firewall, essentially making our money useless.

Also sorry if this rant is against the rules, please remove if so. but really just wondering if anyone else commiserates?

I currently have an iPad pro but am looking for something just for general notes and sketches that isn't so digital. I stumbled on remarkable as an option. I know all the tech side of things but I'm curious about the real world and people genuine options.

What would you guys recommend in terms of the current line up:

- Re pure (new)

- Re pro (refurbished)

- Or another alternative.

I don't know how important the colour features are or if the higher contrast of the pure is better than the colour features.

I'm an architect so the colour isn't essential to my work, especially considering I also have the iPad.

Thanks for your help and wisdom all.

Hey,

I am using Remanager for a while and really love it. Yesterday I installed the Bluetooth Keyboard Plugin via Remanager and connected my Bluetooth keyboard successfully and used it the whole evening. I am German, so I have a German QWERTZ layout.

2 hours ago I wanted to proceed with the document, connected the same Bluetooth keyboard, and suddenly the mapping is set to English (QWERTY). I restarted the device and the keyboard multiple times, tested the keyboard with other devices to rule out that it is somehow set to qwerty, but no success. I cannot revert it to my language on the Remarkable Paper Pure (the system and all keybords/handwriting rec. is also set to German).

Did somebody have a similar problem and can help?

I know there seems to be a different mod than Remanager with which you can add Bluetooth keyboards and change the language there, but I really do not want to wander off Remanager and fumble around with other apps.

Thank you!

So for context I’m a building designer. I draw up the plans of an existing house on my computer, publish to PDF and load onto my Pure. Loving the ease of this.

Plus: being able to hand draw over the plans from the comfort of my bed/couch instead of sitting at computer desk is amazing. I don’t need the accuracy of my computer program at this stage, I just want to work out spaces etc. it’s a game changer.

Minus: being able to create layers is great. I use a white marker over the base floor plan to ‘white out’ walls and then black fine liner on another layer on the top to draw new walls. However, when switching between layers I wish the pen selection would revert to what I was using on that layer. So when I press the first layer it would be white marker and then when I press the second layer it would automatically change to black fine liner. Does anyone else feel like this?

Interesting: at one point I realised I wrote a note on the wrong layer so I selected it and cut it, when I changed layers to paste it I noticed the ghosting showed me where it had been and so I could position it almost exactly where it had been on the other layer. I thought it was interesting that ghosting would be helpful!

Hi,

So far I like the experience on my paper pure (writing 2h+ per day on it) but a bug is really annoying me : sometimes, my last stroke disappears.
That and writing on the edge of the tablet is kind of a mess if your palm is touching the screen : marker and writing line appear to be offset.
I swapped the marker tip, made a factory reset but the problem is still there.
RM aftersales team is on point, really quick to answer and assisting me with troubleshooting and proposing me an exchange for a new device.

I used to have a RM Paper Pro but can't justify the price point and the size was too big, but I do not remember having those kinds of problems with the Pro.

Question is : is it a common problem that I may encounter with a new device?

Theoretical question… having android on the remarkable and you can pair a keyboard, could you open Termius and developer from there via SSH?

Thanks in advance

I feel like I bought and $800 paper weight. I've had it for more than 6 months and still can't figure out how best to use it.

My writing is heavily research based which requires me to constantly cross reference, copy and paste etc.

The workflow on this thing that I have to use an android or pc in conjunction then save as a pdf through the app, then download to the tablet then copy, all for a single reference paragraph is too much.

Is there any other way, or should I face reality and get an ipad?

Hello, I really love my remarkable 2 but I have to say, that the only reason I won't by the color paper pro or recommend the remarkable tablets is, that it does not support expendable storage and it does not show up as a normal drive on a pc, whereas other devices like the supernote manta do have these basic functionallities. The browser connectivity is cool as an additional feature but not useful in everyday life as it has caused me many problems with backing up my notes and it makes it really hard to stick with remarkable compared with other manufacturers sadly..

I really want to support european businesses like remarkable, but why do you not support normal usb connection or micro sd card extension?

And is it planed for the future?

For a product that is meant to be as close to paper as possible, the fact that there is no way to actually reliably erase the pixels directly under where your eraser went is somewhat unacceptable. When i erase, especially with stroked from the shader tool, it seems like it checks if my eraser covers some minimum area from a specific stroke to erase, rather than just erasing precisely the pixels i moved over. Now this would already be bad enough if the shader tool didn't encourage you to overlap stokes, but it does. This results in what I described above needing to happen to multiple stokes at once, meaning for certain sections of shading, they are virtually impossible to erase without destroying the project. Especially because, if say, i settle for erasing a much larger area than i want to in order to clear a certain spot, now when i fill back in the unwanted erasures, there will be uneven overlapping on the edges of that area.

I saw someone posting about this feature on the reddit, and a dev responded saying it was impossible because of how the stoke logic is programmed. Than it is your JOB to reprogram as much of the stack as necessary to make the eraser function usable. To get set-up with one of these tablets, it costs about $1000, plus a subscription to get syncing. For that price, and the level of polish that is promised, you need to do better than, sorry this basic functionality is "impossible."

also as someone with some development experience, you wouldn't need to reprogram very much at all! the quick and dirty way would be just to store the stroke as a bunch of smaller vectors right next to each other! no it wouldn't be pixel perfect to where you erased, but it would make it usable! as of now, you hav4 to treat any kind of finished product you make as drawing with pen and markers, because erasing simply does not work.

You have made a fantastic product, but seem to think that good enough is enough, when, at this price point, its not!

thanks,

keenan

Hi guys! Are the sleeve folios for the remarkable 2 tablet no longer in production? Everytime I check it's out of stock and I dont really want to get a book folio ;-;

I just received my new paper Pro last week and I also treated myself to the leather cover and now it's on sale at amazon. I've never seen them on sale! I purchased mine directly from remarkable . So if anyone has been on the fence about purchasing , now would be a good time