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Re:Show HN: Note, my simple command-line note taking app by Mister_X on Monday February 22, 2021 @11:25PM (#26233807)
OT, but I've had a MobiScribe e-Ink tablet for almost a couple of years now, I use it daily for notes and diagrams, fantastic tool, but that ReMarkable 2 e-ink tablet looks worthy of a closer look, Thanks!

Oops, just checked, mine has a backlight, and the ReMarkable is even more Closed than my MobiScribe, fail.

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Re:Show HN: Note, my simple command-line note taking app by robinsoh on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @03:43AM (#26235117)
> Oops, just checked, mine has a backlight, and the ReMarkable is even more Closed than my MobiScribe, fail.

Are you certain about this? I was told that remarkable is open source. But I have not verified this myself. But I see tools like https://github.com/torwag/remarkableflash which suggest it is possible to recompile what software remarkable has published and then flash it on to the system. Please double check either way.

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Re:Show HN: Note, my simple command-line note taking app by xyquadrat on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @02:34AM (#26234729)
I'm not sure what you mean by

> the ReMarkable is even more Closed than my MobiScribe, fail.

The ReMarkable is comparatively very hackable and open, see for example https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable/. It doesn't have a backlight though, that's true.

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Re:Show HN: Note, my simple command-line note taking app by hartator on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:53PM (#26245210)
The ReMarkable is pretty open, you can ssh on it without mod! Their CTO is a former KDE developer or something in the like I believe.

Overall, ReMarkable 1 and 2 are pretty awesome. It's a cool tool to take ton of notes without having to worry about loosing anything. Just wish their search feature was OCR. This is truly missing.

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