> The basic problem with the Remarkable is that it's useless without the $8/month "cloud" plan because that's the only plan that enables its primary feature: handwriting recognition.
Are you saying the key feature for the remarkable is handwriting recognition?
I have a remarkable 2 and I love it, but the whole appeal is to replace the endless paper notebooks and loose sheets that I use. It is great for that. Since I've bought it they've added a bunch of new stuff and the subscription stuff as well. I'm not sure how I feel about it, but then again I have no need for those features. It sounds like most people want a general purpose e-ink tablet whereas the remarkable is basically e-ink paper.
Even as paper, it's subpar, because I can index paper and perform index lookups in sublinear time. On the reMarkable, not so much, and it has not yet stopped being wild to me that for all its evidently brilliant hardware integration, its software falls short on functionality that was an established standard centuries before computing machines were even imagined.
That's a fair criticism. I always rewrite & revise the important notes as I go forward, so I never end up looking back. I can imagine that it is super frustrating to find things that aren't near the end or on a known page number -- their page scrolling functionality is clunky to say the least.
Are you saying the key feature for the remarkable is handwriting recognition?
I have a remarkable 2 and I love it, but the whole appeal is to replace the endless paper notebooks and loose sheets that I use. It is great for that. Since I've bought it they've added a bunch of new stuff and the subscription stuff as well. I'm not sure how I feel about it, but then again I have no need for those features. It sounds like most people want a general purpose e-ink tablet whereas the remarkable is basically e-ink paper.