Hi all, just purchased a RM2 during black friday and have 2 questions.
#1. How does the search feature work? I understand that it can’t search handwritten text, but i have tried both using the Text function to write some key words (ie “orange”) and also have used the convert to text feature to convert a handwritten word (ie “orange”) to text. When I go to search, and I type in “orange” - it comes back with zero results. Is there something I am doing wrong?
#2. The tablet only comes with about 6.57 GB of Storage. What happens when you run out? I have not subscribed to their cloud service. Will I be able to store on the cloud and delete from my device to increase my storage? Can I restore anything at a later time to my local device? How are you using it with the storage limitation?
https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Search-on-reMarkable. Per a google search, The reMarkable 2, for example, does have a search function, however, it will only search text (such as that inserted with the text tool or keyboard folio). Any handwriting will be ignored.Jun 12, 2023
For the second question, I had my remarkable2 since the late 2020 or early 2021 as I was a pre-order and I haven’t ran out of storage yet and need to offload anything but I guess it depends on how much you use it. I guess the best way would be to leverage the integrations of google drive or Dropbox to back up your items for future use. If it’s a new purchase you should get 1 year free for the cloud service and then it’s $2.99 a month. I just got my mom one and we set it up this weekend and when she went to get cloud storage, it gave her 1 year free and she want be charged the $2.99 until November 2024.
The only “search feature” I use is using the “marker” tool to write titles across the tops of the pages, and eyeballing them in the “page selector” tool to find what I’m after. The way the reMarkable software handles actual text is horrible.
As for storage … it depends on how you use it, but pen stroke files don’t use a whole lot of space to begin with. I don’t use the reMarkable as an “ebook reader”, although I do have about a dozen PDFs that I refer to during the day for work. I also have about 120 “notebooks”. The tablet’s total usage is 647MB, and 574MB of that is the original PDF files I had uploaded. This is about 120 regular notebooks plus about 10-12 PDFs.
The cloud service is a mirror of what’s on your tablet. It is NOT A BACKUP, and it’s NOT long-term storage.
In particular, if you delete a document from the tablet, it will be deleted from the cloud as well. (And if you use a reMarkable app, or the web interface, to delete a document from the cloud, it will be deleted from your tablet as well.) This is why I find their “unlimited cloud storage” claims to be misleading - each account’s cloud storage is limited to the capacity of the one tablet linked to that account. Both rM1 and rM2 have about 6.5GB available storage, so … each cloud account has about 6.5GB available storage, no matter how they market it.
If you want to make “real” backups, there are a few choices:
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Use the built-in web interface to download the documents as PDF files. Note that when you do this, any pen strokes will be “burned into” the PDF, and if you later upload that PDF back to the tablet, those pen strokes will be part of the background and you won’t be able to edit them.
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Use something like RCU to download the notebooks as
.rmnfiles. You won’t be able to do anything with them on the computer, but you’ll be able to upload them back to a reMarkable tablet in their original format, and the pen strokes will be edit-able.
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There are two "search"s. The main search will ONLY search titles. It won’t search tags and it won’t search text within a notebook. The secondary search, from within a notebook, will search for text within that notebook. FWIW, you can browse tags in the Tags menu. I don’t use tags (because I can’t search for them), so I’m not sure how useful that is.