Re:ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
by jinnko on Thursday August 27, 2020 @04:06PM
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Boox devices are also very accessible as the run Android and you can install anything on them either from the Play store (requires manual setup at first) or F-droid, along with the usual adb access. I have the Nova Pro which I absolutely love. It has configurable screen refresh rates so it's possible to use a web browser with scrolling. You can install your favourite file sync app. Lately I've been using KDE connect to send/receive files. Writing on it is good and the notes app supports OCR that I found can make reasonable sense of my chicken scratches.
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Re:ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
by Kudos on Thursday August 27, 2020 @06:16PM
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Boox are GPL violators though.
Re:ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
by filmgirlcw on Thursday August 27, 2020 @07:15PM
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Yeah, that's one of my main concerns with the Boox. A good friend of mine loves hers [1], but the unclear point of origin, the GPL violations (and I don't even like the GPL that much as a license -- but if you're going to build off of a GPL base, you better follow the damn license!), and the fact that Android -- while flexible -- is not ideal for note taking stuff (my friend said all the Android note taking apps are unusable so you're stuck with the built-in app -- and I'm less confident about the upkeep of that app when the company won't respect the GPL for the base OS/firmware of the device) is why I went with a reMarkable instead.
But Onyx definitely has a much wider variety of E Ink devices that's for sure.
[1]: https://gizmodo.com/i-unabashedly-love-this-android-e-ink-ta...
Re:ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
by jinnko on Friday August 28, 2020 @10:09AM
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> Boox are GPL violators though.
Hadn't heard of this. Can you provide some references? A quick DDG search didn't turn up anything.