I really like the writing experience with the Remarkable but it has what are (for me) some fatal flaws:

  • the handwriting to text feature is really impressive but having to do it manually every time is painful and even worse is that it does not respect any formatting, just mashing all my text together into one block
  • the search is unusable - why can’t I search for tags or text within a notebook?! I have notebooks tagged to a client name and I also take notes from a sales call which talks about all the clients - I can’t search for “Client X” and find all mentions of them
  • handwriting looks great on the tablet but from my PC at default resolution it looks dreadful - hard to read even

It’s unfortunately - the hardware is fantastic but the implementation seems subpar to me :-(

  • madisynreid@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I’m thinking I am going to return mine as well. I wish so much I could personalize the toolbar and add some icons to switch back to other pages/notebooks quickly. Between the lag and the unfriendly system it’s been more time consuming.

    • Dundermifflinforeman@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      The device seems underpowered to do any form of fast switching and extensive search. Not being able to switch between current and the last notebook is sort of annoying, but not being able to adjust the toolbar and adding new shortcut gestures takes the cake. I don’t know if tagging was included during launch but they have had a few years to improve that function, but instead they add straight line shaping, lol, what a joke. I can navigate an actual paper notebook with sticky tabs faster than I can use this hot garbage.

      • Picard_Wolf359@alien.topBEnglish
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        11 months ago

        You can pull up recently opened documents by a dual figure swipe down and also create favorite docs. This can help improve the speed of accessing files, but won’t address all of your concerns.