<story><title>ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper</title><url>https://remarkable.com/#What_Is_New</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>getpolarized</author><text>Let me know what you think about Polar:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;getpolarized.io&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;getpolarized.io&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;We launched about a year ago and are REALLY close to a 2.0 release.</text></item><item><author>tuvistavie</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m in the middle of my PhD and switched from printing papers to reading them on my iPad roughly two years ago.&lt;p&gt;There are some things I miss from paper but overall I found the pros to overweight the cons.&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;#x27;t found that flipping back and forth on iPad is that horrible, to be honest.&lt;p&gt;Not sure how helpful this will be but I&amp;#x27;ll share what I&amp;#x27;ve been doing for now.
I use the following apps:&lt;p&gt;* Mendeley (to organize papers)&lt;p&gt;* PDF Expert (to annotate PDFs)&lt;p&gt;* GoodNotes (mostly when working out the maths)&lt;p&gt;My usual workflow is:&lt;p&gt;* Read through the paper&lt;p&gt;* Annotate in the paper using Apple pencil as I read through&lt;p&gt;* Figure out the maths on the iPad when needed&lt;p&gt;* When I get back to a computer, upload the annotated file to Mendeley and type summary notes in Mendeley&lt;p&gt;A few things that I like&amp;#x2F;dislike about iPad when compared to paper.&lt;p&gt;+ Search for information on the web while reading paper more easily&lt;p&gt;+ Check notes&amp;#x2F;annotations quickly from my computer&lt;p&gt;+ Share notes easily&lt;p&gt;+ Search notes easily&lt;p&gt;+ Clean desk =D&lt;p&gt;- More context switching needed when I need to scramble something&lt;p&gt;- Mendeley misses some basic features on iOS (e.g. attach PDF to existing paper) so need to context switch with computer at some point after reading the paper&lt;p&gt;I would say that for 90% of the papers I go through, where I don&amp;#x27;t dive that deep in the paper, the experience is just as good on iPad. For the 10% of the papers I read where I go in-depth, redo proofs, etc, it&amp;#x27;s a little more tedious.
While it&amp;#x27;s for sure not perfect, given the above pros, I can live with the cons.</text></item><item><author>pottertheotter</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve always partially wanted something like this, but can&amp;#x27;t get away from paper. I recently completed a PhD and tried an iPad and my computer, but ended up always printing off articles. It&amp;#x27;s annoying having a lot of physical paper around, but I&amp;#x27;m constantly flipping back and forth in papers and it&amp;#x27;s so inconvenient to do that digitally. I also find it&amp;#x27;s so much easier for me to recall information based on where it was, and I completely lose that in a digital device.&lt;p&gt;Curious if those have been issues for you or not. I wonder if it&amp;#x27;s just how my mind works, or if I&amp;#x27;m not &amp;quot;doing it right&amp;quot;?</text></item><item><author>paultopia</author><text>I recently bought the ReMarkable 1 (wasn&amp;#x27;t willing to wait for preorder on the 2, and the differences don&amp;#x27;t look that significant).  I kinda love it: I&amp;#x27;m a professor, and 99% of my use is in reading article PDFs---it&amp;#x27;s a vastly better experience than reading on an eyestrain-inducing glossy screens or printing off.&lt;p&gt;One major annoyance, though, is that it&amp;#x27;s clunky to switch between documents---I like to take notes in a separate document from the articles (mainly so I don&amp;#x27;t have to deal with the hassle of trying to export marked-up PDFs, which is a very suboptimal experience---the ios&amp;#x2F;mac apps are, uh, not good.). There&amp;#x27;s a pretty big lag there.&lt;p&gt;But the reading experience qua reading is so much nicer that I keep it anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colinjoy</author><text>It would be nice if you did not initiate a download on my behalf when I merely visit the &amp;quot;download&amp;quot; page via the main navigation. I would expect at least prompt for confirmation before you push a 180 MB binary to me.</text></comment>
<story><title>ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper</title><url>https://remarkable.com/#What_Is_New</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>getpolarized</author><text>Let me know what you think about Polar:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;getpolarized.io&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;getpolarized.io&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;We launched about a year ago and are REALLY close to a 2.0 release.</text></item><item><author>tuvistavie</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m in the middle of my PhD and switched from printing papers to reading them on my iPad roughly two years ago.&lt;p&gt;There are some things I miss from paper but overall I found the pros to overweight the cons.&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;#x27;t found that flipping back and forth on iPad is that horrible, to be honest.&lt;p&gt;Not sure how helpful this will be but I&amp;#x27;ll share what I&amp;#x27;ve been doing for now.
I use the following apps:&lt;p&gt;* Mendeley (to organize papers)&lt;p&gt;* PDF Expert (to annotate PDFs)&lt;p&gt;* GoodNotes (mostly when working out the maths)&lt;p&gt;My usual workflow is:&lt;p&gt;* Read through the paper&lt;p&gt;* Annotate in the paper using Apple pencil as I read through&lt;p&gt;* Figure out the maths on the iPad when needed&lt;p&gt;* When I get back to a computer, upload the annotated file to Mendeley and type summary notes in Mendeley&lt;p&gt;A few things that I like&amp;#x2F;dislike about iPad when compared to paper.&lt;p&gt;+ Search for information on the web while reading paper more easily&lt;p&gt;+ Check notes&amp;#x2F;annotations quickly from my computer&lt;p&gt;+ Share notes easily&lt;p&gt;+ Search notes easily&lt;p&gt;+ Clean desk =D&lt;p&gt;- More context switching needed when I need to scramble something&lt;p&gt;- Mendeley misses some basic features on iOS (e.g. attach PDF to existing paper) so need to context switch with computer at some point after reading the paper&lt;p&gt;I would say that for 90% of the papers I go through, where I don&amp;#x27;t dive that deep in the paper, the experience is just as good on iPad. For the 10% of the papers I read where I go in-depth, redo proofs, etc, it&amp;#x27;s a little more tedious.
While it&amp;#x27;s for sure not perfect, given the above pros, I can live with the cons.</text></item><item><author>pottertheotter</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve always partially wanted something like this, but can&amp;#x27;t get away from paper. I recently completed a PhD and tried an iPad and my computer, but ended up always printing off articles. It&amp;#x27;s annoying having a lot of physical paper around, but I&amp;#x27;m constantly flipping back and forth in papers and it&amp;#x27;s so inconvenient to do that digitally. I also find it&amp;#x27;s so much easier for me to recall information based on where it was, and I completely lose that in a digital device.&lt;p&gt;Curious if those have been issues for you or not. I wonder if it&amp;#x27;s just how my mind works, or if I&amp;#x27;m not &amp;quot;doing it right&amp;quot;?</text></item><item><author>paultopia</author><text>I recently bought the ReMarkable 1 (wasn&amp;#x27;t willing to wait for preorder on the 2, and the differences don&amp;#x27;t look that significant).  I kinda love it: I&amp;#x27;m a professor, and 99% of my use is in reading article PDFs---it&amp;#x27;s a vastly better experience than reading on an eyestrain-inducing glossy screens or printing off.&lt;p&gt;One major annoyance, though, is that it&amp;#x27;s clunky to switch between documents---I like to take notes in a separate document from the articles (mainly so I don&amp;#x27;t have to deal with the hassle of trying to export marked-up PDFs, which is a very suboptimal experience---the ios&amp;#x2F;mac apps are, uh, not good.). There&amp;#x27;s a pretty big lag there.&lt;p&gt;But the reading experience qua reading is so much nicer that I keep it anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>uxcolumbo</author><text>Looks great - will check it out.&lt;p&gt;Noticed you have a typo on the homepage under the uni logos.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Discovery why Polar [...]&amp;quot; should read &amp;quot;Discover why Polar [...]&amp;quot;</text></comment>