Hey guys, has anyone else experienced this with the Pure? About 20% of the time when the pen nib touches the screen, the ink appears offset up and to the right of where the nib is actually touching.

It doesn’t happen all the time, but often enough to be distracting while writing. I’ve tried restarting the device, changing the nib. Nothing helped. I even tried demagnetizing the screen with a watch demagnetizer but it didn't help.

I absolutely love the Pure otherwise, but this makes it impossible to use without getting distracted. I’m really hoping I just got a defective unit and that this isn’t normal behavior. Has anyone else experienced this? I’d really appreciate hearing whether this is expected or if I should ask for a replacement.

You pair the tablet with a one-time code from my.remarkable.com, a two-page writing kit lands on it as a notebook called Kalam, you write it out with the fineliner, hit sync, and it comes back as a .ttf of your handwriting — ligatures included, pulled stroke by stroke from the actual pen data, no OCR. Free, side project not a product: https://kalam-hand.fly.dev — if you run it, post your glyph grid, I want to see how it holds up on handwriting that isn't mine. If anything breaks, tell me here and I'll fix it today.

Source: https://x.com/MaximeRivest/status/2073544461473169432?s=20

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Hi all,

I was looking through the stationery section this afternoon and thought, oh look, what a nice folio. Behold, it's a remarkable 2 priced as a notepad!

I've got it working with my s-pen for now, but I'm looking for a stylus that's relatively cheap and maybe a bit larger than the s-pen.

I have never before had the desire for a remarkable, as I've got a tablet and an e-reader, but holding it in my hand, and I kind of understand the appeal and can kind of justify the high retail price. (I'm a student, so waaaay out of reach for me right now)

For those who use a remarkable regularly, what do you use it for? I picked it up and planned to use it as a daily reading/news machine, but I'm open to any other suggestions given how many possibilities there are with this device.

Thanks for reading!

I do like the Move I got this week. It’s almost perfect for me apart from I wish the frontlight was colour temperature adjustable and this light bleed at the top.

It’s not the white frame as it’s blocked on all other sides but looks like either it extends to far at the top or isn’t covered correctly at the top.

It doesn’t look to bad on this photo but when using at night, it’s very noticeable

Hey friends! My name’s Rob, and my friend Raj and I have spent the past few months building Flowstate, which turns reMarkable notebooks into clean, transcribed text and sends it off to your favorite note apps.

We're both Obsidian nerds who love writing by hand, but all the workflows for transcribing from physical notebooks or e-ink tablets and getting the output into your vault are… not great. Lots of copy/pasting, juggling API keys, janky setups that break easily, etc.

So Raj, who used to work at Reddit as an engineer, built a simple app to transcribe handwriting and sync it automatically. And then, because he's kind of a maniac, he kept adding features and integrations. I've been testing it with a reMarkable Paper Pro the last few weeks, and happy to report that it works beautifully with Obsidian and Notion. Just requires you to send a notebook/page to a unique Flowstate email address.

Anyhow, we just launched Flowstate after testing it with a few friends and squashing some bugs. Would love any feedback or feature requests y'all have. How can we make this even more useful for your specific workflows?

There are definitely some other great options if you want PDFs of your handwriting synced to Obsidian (shout out to Scrybble, which is awesome and syncs via the reMarkable API in cool ways that we don't.) But where Flowstate shines is turning handwriting into searchable, formatted text that you can continue working on in Obsidian, Notion, or other apps.

It's also got a ton of tools for creating custom workflows. So with your daily journal, you can format it one way and send it to your personal Obsidian vault, and with the meeting notes you take at work, you can send those into your company's Notion workspace, or a Google doc, or (if you're a masochist) OneNote. Plus we're adding new integrations regularly, so if you need something specific, let us know.

This is a paid app, but the first 50 pages of transcription are free. So test it out as long as you want without any pressure. But transcription costs us real money per page, and we'd rather offer a useful product at a fair price than run ads or raise money or whatever. Also, we've got the option to top-up credits, so you're never forced into a subscription.

We do use AI to transcribe and format, but we make sure the output is never altered in any way that you didn't ask for. The robot just follows your instructions and files things where you can find them again.

So yeah, that's Flowstate. Both Raj and I have been using it every day for months, are super proud of it, and we hope you dig it too.

If you wanna check it out, our website is seekflowstate.com

You can also find the app on the iOS app store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flowstate-notes/id6758569058

And here it is on the Google Play store for all the Android homies: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flowstate.app

P.S. As you can tell from the photo, I do NOT have particularly good handwriting, but Flowstate still managed to transcribe it surprisingly well!

I've had my reMarkable for a few years now and I genuinely love writing on it. But I noticed a pattern that was quietly driving me crazy: the tablet is where my best thinking/ideas happens, and also where it goes to die (and I've tried a lot of "journaling systems" - Reflective / Bullet Journaling etc.).

But that happens not because the reMarkable is bad, but because it's only ONE of the places my life/notes ends up. When my tablet isn't with me (the Paper Pro is just too big for everyday use), thoughts go into Apple Notes on my iPhone - or when I'm at work into Notion or Jira... so when I actually needed something ("where did I write that idea down? what did I decide about X?"), the answer was always "somewhere, in one of three places, good luck 😞"

I looked for something that could merge all of it and didn't find anything that (a) treated handwriting and different journaling systems as a first-class input and (b) didn't want to upload my private journals to someone's cloud. So I spent the last months building it myself. It's called Anthracite.

The short version: it's a completely free and notarized MacOS app. It syncs your reMarkable notebooks (you link it with the usual one-time code from my.remarkable.com / rmfakecloud support is on the roadmap), reads your Apple Notes directly off your Mac, pulls in Notion and Obsidian... and then compiles all of it into one markdown (.md files) wiki-like knowledge base and a task board.

What I'm most happy about is: the handwriting OCR runs locally on your Mac using local models (if you want to use payed one, like Google Vision or OpenAPI, you just add your API Key)..... but the main benefit is, it's free, works offline, and nobody's server ever sees your notes (and your bad handwriting 😂).

My favorite little moment of it working: I scribbled "(dot) call the insurance guy" in a journal page on the tablet, and it showed up on my task board next to a task from a typed Apple Note. That's the whole point, really!!!

It's invite-only right now. The site is anthracite.co and the code 34BQ-WAGN should get you in (first come, first served — I'll drop more in the comments if it runs out).

Happy to answer anything — how the OCR deals with diffrent journaling systems and different handwriting, how .rm files get rendered, why I made it local-only, whatever... :)

P.S. this is an early alpha. macOS 14+ on Apple Silicon only, because that's what the local OCR needs (4-6 GB RAM gets you there). You will maybe find rough edges - that's kind of the deal, and there's a feedback form and a small Discord where I actually read everything 👍.

I just installed the latest beta version (3.28.0.162) on my reMarkable Paper Pro Move. I wanted to test it out specifically to see what improvements they’ve made to the EPUB reading experience, as mentioned in the recent updates. Here are my thoughts so far after spending some time with it.

🟢 What’s Improved

• The new margin layout is a massive upgrade. All three margin options finally work beautifully on the Move's screen. Previously, the "narrow" option was the only one that felt usable.
• They have significantly reduced the bottom margin. In previous versions, it wasted far too much screen real estate, leaving a massive blank gap at the bottom.
• The new dialog window for adjusting fonts and margins is much better placed. The interface feels clean, intuitive, and polished. I hope the drop down for font choice hints to custom fonts.

🔴 What Changed (But Still Needs Work)

• The beta introduces proprietary reMarkable Sans and reMarkable Serif fonts, replacing Noto Sans and Noto Serif. Personally, I find them to be a step backward for reading books. They don't come close to Amazon’s Bookerly (the gold standard for E-ink) or even Merriweather.
  • While reMarkable Sans renders well enough, serif fonts are generally much easier on the eyes for long reading sessions.
  • The poor rendering contrast makes smaller text hard to read. Turning on the “Increase Contrast” setting helps, but it makes the fonts look pixelated.
• The font size increments are frustratingly restrictive. The text jumps from being too small to too large with nothing in between—reminiscent of the abrupt thickness steps on the fineliner tool.
• There is currently no vertical spacing between paragraphs. The only distinction is the first-line indentation, which makes blocks of text feel cramped and hurts readability.

EDIT:

• I noticed they removed the ability to add margin notes with two finger swipe --- this was the best feature. I hope they bring it back in some form.

⚡ Performance Note

I didn’t notice any significant performance lag or speed penalties when changing fonts.

Overall I’m generally pleased at these changes. I wish they could have an option to add your own font. Curious to hear if anyone else has received this push yet and what your thoughts are on the new formatting logic!