I have had RM2 for almost 4 years and I am using it as a scratchpad every day. But I won't be jumping to RMPP, it moves in the wrong direction. I needed decent text recognition and search, better scrolling, better sync. Not larger size and colors.<p>When I bought the RM2 it was without subscription. I dislike their cloud pricing and the lack of any features in the web UI.<p>Ideally I would like to have LLM integration, they can send a screenshot of the scratchpad to the model as context, it would be able to parse text and mind-maps from image.
I tried RMPP for a weekend and decided not to stick with it. Honestly, it doesn't even come close to how good my Note Air 3C* is. Being an Android device allows you to perform customization especially regarding setting accessibility features beyond the basics.<p>* I understand that some people have concerns about the brand's security practices and affiliations, but I went further and completely locked it down from public cloud features.
My experience largely mirrors the OP's. I find reading and writing in darkness to be very pleasant with the new backlight, but YMMV. Lack of backwards compatibility with my existing RM2 styli is somewhat annoying, but I'll deal. The RM2 was a huge improvement over the original Remarkable; the RMPP is a smaller, but still substantial, improvement over the RM2. If you can afford it, I recommend it.
While I really like the color, and IMHO the back-light works quite well in my eyes, there are a couple of shortcomings of the RMPP and reMarkable in general which are barely mentioned, but which you should know if you consider buying one:<p>- while the total resolution is slightly higher on the RMPP (229 PPI) compared to RM 1/2 (226 PPI), the effective resolution is lower, especially for ebooks/PDFs. When you have text on say grey background you can barely read the text on the RMPP while there is no problem on RM 1/2.<p>- starting with RMPP there is coil whining (not loud but you hear it in quite settings)<p>- while the advertising sais "Can render 20,000 colors", you have actually a very limited number of colors when it comes to one pixel. Colorful images or highlighted text is being rendered quite coarsly as on those cheap 7-color e-ink devices (but faster and with higher resolution)<p>- you can't use the (quiet expensive) pen which works for RM 1/2<p>- the software feels quite unfinished in a lot of aspects. This is hard to summarize of course but includes very slow processing of and poor interaction with ebooks/pdfs or the close to non-existing integration of typed text.<p>- without the cloud it's hard to get documents on your device. The web interface is fiddly and for some documents it simply doesn't work.<p>On the plus side you get root access on a relatively native Linux system and there is a community providing cool stuff [0]<p>[0]: <a href="https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable">https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable</a>
As someone trying to move away from dead tree paper and towards digital (but hasn't quite found a cozy spot with those e-readers like kindle). What is so good about ReMarkable? I would never use it for writing only reading white and black text with no images
I have been really interested in this device, but the proprietary stylus really turned me off. In addition to not working on any other e-ink reader/notepad, it is a mystery to me why they went with a stylus technology that requires charging.
What are the options for spaced repetition systems (SRS, like anki or memrise) on the remarkable?<p>I used to use an iPad and a piece of paper, and really like the idea of writing on the device. I don’t need the program to check for me, I trust my self check.
Just got a new Pro... first impressions: Like the tablet, hate the subscription and cloud stuff. Onboarding could be quicker (definitely not the just open-and-start-scrawling experience of a traditional paper sketchpad).
Disappointed it can't even read text files. The flashing when there are colors on the screen is annoying, would prefer to simply turn colors off. The responsiveness is great, barely any perceptible lag. The UI isn't too distracting. Support is good (they answered a ticket on a long weekend and it were spot-on).<p>Intriguing device, and a growing hacker community... I want to play with it a bit more to decide if it fills the niche for me.