[chasd00]

I work in consulting and one of my projects is piloting an AI use case for a department within one of my clients. On a discovery call someone casually brought up that they bought a reMarkable notebook themselves and were wondering if it could be integrated into the use case. It really got me thinking.

Maybe reMarkable or something like it could help bridge a student's writing with an LLM without having to fall back to a laptop or ipad.

https://remarkable.com/

[vessenes]

I've written a bunch of tools around the remarkable, and it can be easily integrated here, although realtime integration is quite fussy. At this point, it's easiest to vibe code your own, if you're interested, start with https://github.com/ddvk/rmapi and look into pulling documents and optionally putting them back.

remarkable keeps inking data on a per-page basis in vector format, so there's a bit of work to be done to render the inking and then visually assessing it, but it's all pretty much "done" work.

Remarkable's cloud syncing tech is .. not great, and I'd speculate you'd get a better setup here with some sort of harness where you talk / text with an agent that has access to all the files, dates, OCRs, etc first before you consider trying to generate PDFs / pages and put them back onto the tablet.

[fn-mote]

> Maybe reMarkable or something like it could help bridge a student's writing with an LLM without having to fall back to a laptop or ipad

What does “bridge a student’s writing” mean?? If this is a real argument it needs to be clearer.

What’s the functional difference between a Remarkable and an iPad? The former is less responsive, costs less, and has better battery life, right? I really don’t see how that’s significant to any kind of development of anything.

Are you talking about running a local model??

[chasd00]

I feel like an eink b/w device will work better because of the display and lack of distractions like on a full blown iPad. Seems like sink would be similar to a sheet of paper but digital so it could be sent to an LLM or some Other API. Just my two cents though, I don’t have a super strong opinion about it.

[MikeTheGreat]

> costs less

I assumed that too, back when i thought that getting an e-ink pad would be cool.

Right now Amazon is quoting me $450 on a 10.3" reMarkable, but the price goes up for the 11.8" model and/or for bells and whistles. It looks like an 11" ipad is $450 and up (based on https://www.apple.com/ipad/compare/), although you need to buy the $80-100 iPencil separately.

So yeah - I was hoping that e-ink things would cost less, but they're still pretty expensive and certainly competitive with the iPad.

[gravypod]

I assume that the reMarkable here would mainly just be used to capture the writing. It could then be examined by an LLM asynchronously.