Re:ReMarkable’s redesigned e-paper tablet is more powerful a...
by thaumaturgy on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @05:04PM
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The Remarkable (the older one that I have; not sure on the newer one) has two "off" modes: an "inactive" kind of mode, where it has just deactivated the screen from lack of use, and a "sleep/power-off" mode, where it's actually either gone to sleep or been powered off by the user or a low battery.
In the first mode, it comes back in about 1 second. It's enough that there's a bit of a lag and I don't like it if it happens right in the middle of something, but I haven't run into this very much.
In the second, it takes a few seconds to spin up, so I got into the habit of doing that before a meeting or whatever started. It takes about as much time to get it started up and navigate to the appropriate file as it would to fish a binder out of my bag and open it up to a blank page.
I've tried a few things in the last couple of years to take my note taking electronic, and it turns out that delay is important - if there's too much delay I end up not jotting down the couple of quick notes I need to write. Wunderlist opens very quickly on my Android phone and I ended up unconsciously using it to write down quick things. OneNote (an otherwise great tool) take an age to open and get to the right page, so I end up not using it except at my desk.