I work for a large multi national and they won’t let me download the remarkable app which is fairly obvious. But what is the best way to:

  1. Import PDFs to the remarkable without the desktop app? Generally these will be market research docs, articles, nothing sensitive
  2. Export notes or at least view notes on my laptop? Generally will be diagrams, general notes or annotated PDFs

My work have OneDrive but not sure if the integration by default would work.

What is the best way to make it as productive as possible? Also, anyone know a way of screenshots without the desktop App?

  • ThatBurningDog@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    If you connect the tablet via USB, there’s a toggle in the settings which lets you access the tablet from a web browser. It allows you to copy stuff to and from the tablet.

    It works on my work laptop which has the USB ports locked down for data - I can normally plug in the items approved for work like my printer, hearing aid programmers, video otoscope etc but it doesn’t allow me to use non-Bitlockered USB drives. The tablet doesn’t show as a storage device like you’d normally expect and uses some kind of black magic fuckery to transfer data.

    You can also use OneDrive to download stuff to the tablet, but I don’t think you can go the other way and upload anything to the cloud. My workaround is to simply email any marked up documents to myself.

    • kg4zow@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      The computer thinks it’s a USB ethernet adapter. The reMarkable tablet runs a DHCP server and, when you plug in the cable, it assigns a 10.11.99.x IP to that interface on your computer.

      Be careful with third-party integrations. They work by storing a copy of your credentials for (google, dropbox, or microsoft) in reMarkable’s cloud servers. The tablets don’t talk directly to those services, they only talk to reMarkable’s cloud servers, and those talk to the outside services.

      If you think your large corporation doesn’t like non-encrypted USB sticks, they’re really not going to like you handing your username and password to an outside company like that.

      • ThatBurningDog@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        The tablets don’t talk directly to those services, they only talk to reMarkable’s cloud servers, and those talk to the outside services.

        That’s a very good point I never considered.

        Thanks for the info on how the USB connection works. It’s close to how I assumed it worked but I wasn’t confident enough to answer!