Brain dump of features I think are missing from my first day of use.
- Paste images into documents, and use images as layers.
- Draw shapes
- Turn drawings into SVGs
- I can’t seem to bookmark a page, just favourite something and leave it where I was last
- A list of pages with annotations on would be really helpful.
- Custom templates
- Multi-page template documents
- An SDK - personally I want a newspaper aggregator, a gitlab tool, a GitHub tool, a Jira tool and a markdown/wiki browser/annotator

Great hardware, great screen, but the software is lacking. Let’s see what the next 99 days bring.

  • chucktomasi@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Great ideas, all of them. I hope reMarkable keeps their eye on this subreddit.

    FWIW, you can do custom templates with a little savvy. The catch is that each OS update wipes out your custom templates and template.json file. I’ve put in an enhancement request to preserve these changes and even offered an architecture based on our own company’s method of preserving “overrides”, but no response yet. Technically, you are correct. According to the RM docs, custom templates are not support. There’s a difference between not supported and not available. :)

    I’ve also got an enhancement request in to provide shape libraries (e.g. for bullet journaling.) I’ve got a collection of icons that I use and manually copy from page to page. What I asked for is a managable panel of icons that can pop out from the tool tray so it’s a tap & drop (and perhaps scale) rather than so much copy/paste of my icon bar and each icon.

    You can turn drawings into SVGs. Check out the Send by mail feature. You can send as PDF, PNG, or SVG. I’ve used this to sketch a character, then mail the SVG, import it into my 3D CAD package and send it to my 3D printer within minutes. Rapid prototyping at its best.

    • time-always-passes@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      You can use layers to approximate custom templating behavior. The key is that a new page always starts with the custom layer right above the template. This lets you copy an existing page and then use the erase all function to clear that layer, keeping the layers above your custom layer intact.

      But yeah, direct support for this kind of templating would be nice.

  • Mastersignifier@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Regarding bookmarks: You can actually tag certain pages and then a) filter for tags in the global search or b) filter for certain tags in the grid/list overview inside a PDF

  • radio_breathe@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I just tested pasting images. I opened a pdf, selected the image, copied it and pasted it into my Quick Sheet just fine. Or am I missing something?

  • MnM891@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yea the fact it can’t create shapes or draw a line and have it snap straight irritates the hell outta me I’ll be in calculus and we need to doodle a triangle or a graph and I can’t just draw a line and have it snap straight or have the option to create a triangle automatically

    It’s frustrating 😒