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There is a one-star review on Amazon [1] from 2018 talking about losing data, has that been addressed?

Another two-star review also from 2018 [2] talking about exported notes only being raster pictures instead of PDF (even more ideal is time-series encoded vector data inside the PDF as a side-channel that can be read back out so other software can perform their own post-capture analysis upon the user's interaction via the pen/eraser with raw pressure, tilt, coordinate, tip type, etc. data). But it looks like PDF now is possible, and the exporting problems can be worked around [3]?

How stable have you and others found the software in 2020 for sharing back out PDF annotations and raw "use it as a notepad"?

[1] https://smile.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1RTYZLCSJR76H/...

[2] https://smile.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R3FGY3FH3XW6OT/...

[3] http://lisaschwetlick.de/blog/2018/03/25/reMarkable/




Amazon reviews are not bug boards.

A one star review from 2018 is an anecdote that seems well out of the norm. I wouldn't draw too much from a single 2.5 year old review with very few similar experiences; especially when everyone else says the product is solid.


I find it to be completely reliable. It handles transient loss of wifi and loss of connectivity to their cloud, doing retries and so forth.

I have had 1 issue in my 2+ years of use where the device rebooted while I was in the middle of writing something, and when it came back, only my last couple of seconds of writing gesture were lost. I don't think about it from a reliability perspective.

I have been pushing data to mine as well, with a local amalgam that de-drms kindle books, convert to pdf, push to remarkable cloud, which is then retrieved by my device. Have done > 100 books, all good.

Really great device. Would contribute equity to them were such an option available.




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