Right? One of the great things about the reMarkable is that i have the same ui and tools for epub, pdf and notebooks. They should stick to that principle.

They should hire anyone for QA, as it seems they don't have anyone doing the final testing outside of the development team.

@@MyDeepGuide 😂

@@MyDeepGuide Ouch.

Thank you :) What you mention is the default functionality of Google Drive, not the Remarkable. So yes, any platform that sends a download request of a native Google Drive file from Google Drive will be automatically converted to a PDF and then sent to the destination. It's not something that Remarkable does in any way and is the expected behavior of Google Drive.

This has already been mentioned as it was a feature of the update 2.9. It is not a new functionality linked to 2.10.

i wish you could toggle it off. for my use I mostly don’t want a red pointer.

If that is the strategy, I question their understanding of an MVP. How is this "viable"?

Yes, two-way sync is an ABSOLUTE MUST for me. As a PhD students, I'm dealing with a dozen PDF files daily, and I have to view them on multiple devices (eReader, laptop, university computers). It's such a hassle to have to download files and upload them back individually every time.

Thank you. Well, that's the problem. We don't have on option of doing a real backup of the notebooks. Only exporting them as PDFs, but that's not the same thing. Still, better than nothing. So the only thing that we can do at the moment is painstakingly and manually export each document to a local location, best done from the desktop app itself.

I haven't covered that because that is default behavior of the Google drive when you send a download request, the documents are automatically converted to PDF files, so it's not a Remarkable specific behavior, it's expected Google Drive functionality.

@@MyDeepGuide I had no idea, but still handy to get the rM to read certain otherwise unsupported file formats in a limited way. Thanks for the info!

It's not difficult, you send a form and that's it. The only problem is that it's pointless, as they seem to ignore them.

Yes, I mean it is difficult to get a hold of a live person to communicate with. Not even a chat option. 😶

Ah yes, that is something not even Tom Cruise would manage.

Nope, you can only export them.

We don't know yet. But they say existing customers will get all feature for free. Don't know if that means right now or until it's released.

Because Tardigrade is the most awesome of all living beings and I love learning more about them :) It was also part of the research I was doing for an Astrobiology course.

Hello, I never considered Remarkable as a good value for money kind of a device. It may sound like it on paper, but once the pen and a folio has been added, it amounts to quite a lot. For me, Boox Note Air is the device I use for exactly what you said, and what helps is the ease of use, multiplatform integration, ability to use various apps and native support of geometric shapes and lines in notebooks. Now that Nova Air came out I had to get it, because I get the same power, but in a super portable format. I am just hoping and waiting to see if they'll get Max Air maybe out, because that would be the ideal combination for me.

@@MyDeepGuide After another run at your reviews, i finally maked up my mind and went for the A5X ! Purely because i do not really like the design of the Boox Note Air and since you seems judge it to be a close second, i am going to follow your advices on the matter. I do plan to support your work in some way but your organizer seems to be deprecated with the integration of the supernote calendar, am i wrong ? Anyway great work and thanks to Remarkable2 for having the worst economic model i have ever seen, now i have no regret going for the competition !

Yeah, that's why it's a big disappointment for me. Another artificial crutch forced onto the platform. Someone isn't paying attention to the competition.

Seriously, I don't get it what are they doing over there. It doesn't even feel like a student project anymore, maybe if all just D students who are all into art and design but somehow ended up in software development class and are now just plowing through, scraping the bare minimum for a pass and hope they get it. It's a disgrace how little has been done in a year.

@@MyDeepGuide This seems a little too harsh. We don't know exactly what the company is coping with.

This is not something anyone should release as a "finished" update, nor should a single of their customers accept this level of incompetence. It's insulting and disrespectful to their customer base. If there were issues, well then it must be delayed, not released as an unfinished product. If this kind of behavior is accepted, excused or defended, the only thing you and I as customers will get is worse service and worse product updates, not better. So no, I don't think it's harsh for a shameful excuse of a "service integration" that is currently the worst implementation of these services I have ever seen on any device, ever. I can literally not think of a single other example where this is implemented in a worse way. Can you?

@@MyDeepGuide I have no problem with slamming a product as incomplete or shoddy, or arguing that it should be withheld until more work and testing can be done. The stuff about how the team seems like "D students who are all into art and design but somehow ended up in software...scraping the bare minimum for a pass" is not quite the same thing.

@@MyDeepGuide come on man stop complaining. its been a tough year for everyone. Hopefully they can provide better updates over the next few months

Unfortunately no.

@@MyDeepGuide 🤷🏼‍♂️🥺

But you can with Supernote or Boox devices, it's the Remarkable that can't do that. Other eink devices can.

@@MyDeepGuide no, tried, and it does not connect

it works. but i really hate they way they use the screen estate. with the RM logo taking up all the space, the broad margins left and right, a big black rectangle and showing all the interface elements all the time. what i would like to see is only my content without the visual clutter, e.g. a blank sheet of paper. it is very unusable for me like this.

​@@danibal1240 Yeah, I used OBS and cropped that out for streaming to students. I agree with you that it is a problem that shouldn't exist. Feels like the system isn't really polished and requires the user to solve it in order for being actually useful. There are other problems as well. I which I could use landscape mode with a page set in portrait mode. That way I would be able to scroll up and down the page. Would be way easier for other people to see. Because of the vertical aspect ratio, it is simply not compatible to landscape monitors, and the text is smaller than it needed to be. You actually have to make the effort of cropping the borders in OBS, so you can increase the size of the useful window and then after still make effort to write it a little bigger. So there are a lot of concessions. There is still improvements to be made, I completely agree with you. Having said that, this functionality was still a game changer for online classes. My previous setups involved recording my writing on paper or doing a PPT presentation, and neither was actually good. To bad it came too late. My next class is in November and live classes are expected to be back, so I might not even use it again. But I am glad I had the chance to experiment. If you need to use it, I highly recommend trying OBS. You can crop the window and add other stuff to your screen, and use the screen recording as it is a webcam on zoom/meets/teams.

@@VinAbuqrq thanks fot the tip! I am not sure if OBS is my missing link, because I already work with Screenflow for the screen recording. But the cropping you mention might be interesting.

I hope they get the basics sorted out first and then dip their toes into more complicated things such as subscriptions, because at this stage, the platform doesn't seem ready for something like that.

Unfortunately no.

@@MyDeepGuide whyyyyyyy... it seems like such a NO BRAINER! This device looks amazing... what would make it infinitely more amazing is if it could sync text from OneNote! Have you ever used OneNote? I am a huge OneNote user for my IT job. I suppose I could go without it, but is there a way I could link the notes I take on this device into a OneNote notebook at least?

@@MyDeepGuide also, why in the absolute F is up with this connect plan? They want me to buy the device, then pay a monthly fee to connect cloud services to it? What kind of hustle is that? I could buy a NEW Surface tablet for the amount they want (520, which is apparently already discounted 150) for the tablet, a pen, a folio, and a connect plan. The discount is very confusing because it says 23.97 for the connect plan but the 150 discount is for the connect plan, which also begins charging 7.99 per month on 3/11/2022. Makes no sense. This Connect plan is nonsense! They should be focusing on making a good product and letting the product sell itself and reap the profit from the product by itself, SMH. I really want this device, but all of these little flaws are telling me not to get it, not to mention it is so expensive for what seems to be a very low processing power device.

The first thing to test is if the WiFi is draining it, so go into airplane mode 8n settings and then see how your battery life is.

I don't understand the question? Can you use what with which Kobo device? We'd need more detailed information if you'd like me or others to help you.

Can I use My Daily Organizer with Kobo Forma? (Or Kobo Sage)

@rainbow, yes, I'm serious... that feature disappeared. I would like to downgrade from the 2.10 release: definitely I don't like the drive connection as it is now, and the usb cable connection for live presentations has problems, too; indeed, not only "My deep guide" had problem with the cable, I too..: no matter how many times I tried to connect and disconnect the cable, I got no connection at all (I changed the cable too, with no results).

@rainbow, no... in my case the connection works with Wi-Fi; it's only with the USB cable that I have no connection.

How do I give permission to my Google Drive?