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by riidom 1835 days ago
I have a ReMarkable 2 as well, and there are zero drawing tools or alike, if you want some graphical object, you just draw it.

You have a multitude of background-guides (lines, grids, etc.) for easier aligning.

The only features you have that you don't get with pen&paper are a layer system and a select tool which you can use for copy/paste/cut or move parts around.

Page management is pretty basic, but ok. You have notebooks which are folders of pages and you can change their order.

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Are you able to achieve a split-screen-like functionality, so you can do scratch work while referencing the text?
Unfortunately no. Not even with the 3rd party modifications. Though there are some full GUI linux installs iirc.

It's a common question in the community Discord, and the official patches have been accelerating and implementing a lot of long-asked-for features (e.g. pinch to zoom), but nobody really knows what's on their roadmap. So hard to say if it'll ever get side-by-side.

Hopefully they add open sourcing the whole stack to their roadmap. That'd be the best thing they can do imo. I'm so eager for a device like this that I can 100% get behind.