Have been experimenting with this unusual Dasung portable e-ink display for park working sessions. It's surprisingly responsive—plenty good enough for writing, coding, studying. HDMI driven, weighs about 1.5lbs, sits in front of my normal display (& uses much less power, ofc).
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Working on the reMarkable is pretty nice, but it makes me feel so passive. The device makes it so hard to write while I read, to jump around, to synthesize—I'd rather use paper most of the time.
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Part of the trouble, I guess, is that this use case is too niche to get a really thoroughly-developed software stack. So things like the Kindle, reMarkable, Boox etc feel awfully "unserious" about workflows compared to my laptop. It's nice to just use my "full" setup in the park.
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Downsides: this display is really quite expensive, fairly bulky, requires some fiddling to get the contrast right, obviously only works well for some types of work.
Not sure if I'll keep it… but… gotta chase those lux!! 🌞🌞🌈
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Correction: on the MacBook Pro, using an external display requires the discrete graphics card, so even though the e-ink display uses less power than the internal LCD with backlight, the net power performance is somewhat worse (but still fine for an afternoon).
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Amusing update: the M1 Macs don't have discrete graphics, so the battery performance with the e-ink display is just silly. I've been out here writing for an hour and a half, and I'm at… 99% battery?! I'll run out of batteries long before this thing does.
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Oh, but (noting in case others encounter this) for whatever reason, the built-in HDMI port doesn't work with the Paperlike, produces weird noisy artifacts. But with my HDMI->USB-C adapter it's fine.
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Cool idea to use eink as alt display.
Formalizing what that synthesis loop is and building an app/eink device for it would be a fantastic project. Unclear to me how much of the internet universe, tools for thought, stylus is necessary to bring in to enable the full vision
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I found that the most recent update for the remarkable made great workflow improvements by allowing quick switching between multiple documents.
I've also made a script that can sync pages from my remarkable to
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These two additions to the remarkable allow for a workflow where I spend some time exclusively reading&taking notes, where I can later re-read and integrate and whatever I want on the laptop.
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FWIW reMarkable recent update with favorite documents and pull down shortcuts make going back and forth slightly easier. Yet, most of my hope now shifted to the PineNote due to BT for inputs but also being fully open-source.
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