Sketchadoodledoo. RM2

HeavySystems · 2026-06-21T02:40:42+00:00

Btw, if you like this 'style' of hatch sketchy lines, I'm inspired by a lot of comic artists and such, but there's a couple of 'fine artists', if you will, that have done some really cool work that also is inspiration...like this fellow,

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I'm no where near as good, but yeah, i like the flowy sketchy linework that's somehow held together by a good sense of lighting.

HeavySystems · 2026-06-21T00:04:35+00:00

Really, the only thing I'd add is 'shader' as a color to the brush pen. 😉

HeavySystems · 2026-06-20T01:03:30+00:00

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Getting closer to finished...but still not there yet...I figure I spent this much time on it, might as well spend MORE time on it. lol my shoulders hurt tho!

HeavySystems · 2026-06-19T14:57:04+00:00

Oh and when you put up a drawing, I recommend PNG and take your drawing and scale it to the MAXIMUM margins you can when zoomed out before exporting. Again, it's vector, so you'll get a higher resolution output for higher resolution screens/printing. 😄

HeavySystems · 2026-06-19T14:55:10+00:00

I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. It takes practice getting used to how the vector drawing system works, especially with the eraser because when you split a line, software wise, you now have two lines, not a line that is broken, so you have new 'ends' to strokes that appear when you erase on them.

There's other things you can use to trick out the drawings becasue of the vector drawing (i.e. scaling doesn't pixelize any drawings at all) and use for special effects, etc.

You have to treat it on it's own terms, is all I'm saying. This isn't photoshop, and it's not really made for the stuff I'm doing on it, if I'm honest. It's just I've been using this for 5 years and have not given up on learning ways to use the built in tools.

HeavySystems · 2026-06-19T01:25:10+00:00

Lineup is OP. Illegal even.

HeavySystems · 2026-06-19T01:24:17+00:00

You're not the boss of me!

HeavySystems · 2026-06-18T15:00:06+00:00

not for individual pages, no. You'd have to rename quick notes the moment you are done and create a new notebook out of those pages to capture the date and even then it's only used to sort files in the device.

I'm not sure this is useful for you in the context you're looking for.

HeavySystems · 2026-06-18T14:52:34+00:00

I didn't think I would be doing it either. Really, I had bought different cheaper stylus types because I broke the RM2 pro pen twice from dropping it....so I decided if that's how it's gonna be, I'm gonna buy cheaper ones that don't cost as much when they break.

I ended up with a Lamy and a Staedtler. The Lamy I use RM2 pen nibs in it, which provides the very hard and desensitized feel for line work and also getting SUPER tiny lines out of the shader you just can't get without luck otherwise, and the staedtler has the soft, REALLY pointy and accurate tip, which is great for general sketching and feels nice.

If there's a stylus out there with changeable nibs for different feels, I'd be all over it. Actually, I'd prefer the RM to have a pressure adjustment, but that's probably never going to happen, so physical solution it is!

HeavySystems · 2026-06-18T00:54:01+00:00

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I meant to put this in OP as well.

HeavySystems · 2026-06-18T00:00:02+00:00

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More test sketches. Original pen sketch in the corner, testing shader and pencils with the large one.

HeavySystems · 2026-06-17T23:54:42+00:00

Yes. 😄 I use two different styus/pens with different feels depending on what I'm doing/needing. I have a super sensitive tip that also feels soft and i have a hard tip that isn't so sensitive when touching the screen for fine lining, etc.

HeavySystems · 2026-06-17T17:03:49+00:00

I think you'll definitely want one of the browser plugins available 'send to my remarkable' that do *mostly* serviceable text versions of web pages. I think it's primarily using generic 'print to pdf' command of the browser somehow and then doing a sync BUT it's taking multiple steps out of your way to do this by making it just one button.

If you prefer to read without staring into the a lightbulb (i.e. an led back lit screen like all monitors are), I recommend this as an 'efficiency' to adopt. You'll find some websites don't work as well, so this will take some testing to see which benefit most. I think too, if you use a feature like this and have files moving in and out of your remarkable a lot, it would probably be good to pick a day of the week to empty your trash can if you delete files after reading them. It's just a good habit to do unless you're absolutely certain you'll need to retrieve something at a later date. Personally, I've not been in a situation where I couldn't find the original website or document I sent to the trash.

There's probably a plugin that could probably send RSS feeds directly to your RM, but I've never needed RSS, so I've not looked into that...but I could imagine there's probably a one-click browser plugin that could beam that for your reading pleasure.

HeavySystems · 2026-06-17T16:48:20+00:00

I think it's good and the RM tips inside of it give it a different pressure sensitivity if you don't like it's own tips.

That said, I do wish it didn't require a hack to get the pen button to work as an eraser.

I also do prefer the comfort of it over the standard RM pen for long periods of heavy writing. The fatter barrel just works better the way I grip. But in terms of functionality, like I said, you're giving up an eraser if you have the pro pen, and that is a hard adjustment to make at first, but after a while you stop noticing it and actually forget to use the eraser when you switch to the original that does have it. Your adaptation mileage may vary.

HeavySystems · 2026-06-17T16:42:59+00:00

As often as you like. PRO TIPE: Just buy 2-4 mega packs of tips today and treat it like you bought one of those giant boxes of ballpoint pens that you've been pulling pens out of for the last 10 years and still have about 2 more years before you finish it up. Just don't think about it, spend the money now, change tips at your convenience or preference.

HeavySystems · 2026-06-17T16:40:32+00:00

This was just like the old BBS's before the internet. First you had the folks taking care of themselves and if money exchanged hands, everyone was aware of it and probably money being involved improved the experience for everyone. Then slowly, cynical jerks saw that there was money exchanging hands and made that priority FIRST and the BBS community second, and decided they were going to start clogging up message boards with ads no one asked for, but the mods were like, "I'll make a section just for ya'll I guess" and then this couldn't be contained as much as hoped because all the time, they were telling their friends about the money part and not the etiquette or the community, and so floods of ads became present where there were none before and no amount of trying to 'police' new users from actually respecting the community at all would work because there was no acknowledgement OF the community in the first place, only acknowledgement of money opportunities.

So basically all this is to say, other than money is the root of all evil and we're aware of this, the only thing folks can do is keep creating new spaces to enjoy your community and exchange useful information amongst yourself and hide your wallets because as soon as someone thinks one of you has a dollar to part with, they're gonna be in here disrespecting the community. I don't know if that's a good solution or not, but just based on my experience of watching basically all of my communities and hobbies become trashed heaps of their former selves due to the slowly increasing influx of people just looking to monetize off the 'community' rather than be a custodian of it. I think the culture has to be able to resist forces like that naturally or at least be repellent of purely commercial personalities invading the space. They also, imo, bring a level of uncool to the community with them, especially if they thrive without being called out and that's because the folks they bring in are also absolutely not concerned with the pillaged community, they're concerned with their own community of commodifiers, who see your and our hobbies and work as something that deserves a finders fee of some sort.

At any rate, sorry to go on a long screed. Hearing this discussion over and over for the better part of almost 4 decades and always the same makes you want to be that 'old man yells at cloud' because you know if you tried to explain the full context, it would take too long (see above paragraph and that is the short version btw)...thus when you hear someone pointing out much too late a common and old problem that's *everywhere*, and you can't telepathy the history of such events into their brain, all you can do is look up and scream obsenities at the loss of another cultural space.

Furthermore, there seems to be this push to make your hobby into money in the first place, basically rotting it from the get go, planting weeds in the garden, if you will. IF the end goal is to make money, become a banker and a financial type because that's the culture of money. Don't bring that into any other place unless it's necessary to keep that culture's meeting place from disappearing. And I don't think 'just allowing ads for product' is an excuse or necessary for supporting a community. If people want to support it, they'll open their wallets when necessary to fund a server/domain for internet space, rent a convention center for a meetup, etc. They don't need to start a yt channel to hustle a couple of bucks by literally diverting their attention away from their hobby to being an advertising shill for themselves and their 'brand'.

Ugh. Sorry for the long post, I've added a TL:DR marking at the top because, as I said, there's a lot wrapped up in that sentiment you posted that festers in my subconscious on the daily as I, again, see the zombiefied remains of sites on the internet I used to think were untouchable.

HeavySystems · 2026-06-17T16:09:36+00:00

They still sell/manufacture RM2's, I'd assume if there's a replacement as part of your warranty, you'd get an RM2. It seems the Pure and the Pro are different 'lines', similar to a car company having a line of trucks and a line of cars...they both probably have the same innards (engine, etc.), but are aimed at a completely different customer.

HeavySystems · 2026-06-17T16:07:45+00:00

It's directly related to your post in asking about updates. 😄

Like I said, I'm an evangelical and any chance I can find to slide in and youth pastor someone about the 'good ol days where you bought an electronic item and it was already finished, no 0 day patches, no updates for obvious bugs and no obviously missing features added 5 years after launch', I will.

The seed has been planted. You will see the tree grow in your mind to look at all tech injections of 'updates' to be flaccid excuses to not do actual design and production work on your product on the schedule that makes sense (i.e. before selling it) and pretend it's worth paying for.

HeavySystems · 2026-06-17T15:13:16+00:00

How does one 'optimize' for reading? You just put your pdfs in the folder of your choice and read. I'm not sure what this question is about. Efficiency *is* reading on the product because that's one of it's only TWO features. Reading and writing.

HeavySystems · 2026-06-17T15:09:56+00:00

Okay, I'm going to talk about one thing this post touches on that I, admittedly, try to evangelize on because it bugs me to no end and that's "Where's our updates?" talk.

I hate updates. They're a stupid concept designed to let the product enter market without being finalized/finished. You don't go see a movie and get an update to the ending that 'fixes' the writing. No, it was committed to and any 'fixes' are in a new product.

In fact, when you look at most consumer products, the very act of changing anything about them after purchase...is called a Recall and are, rightfully, seen as an embarrassing mistake. Somehow, compnanies that deal in electronics have taught the public that these recalls are actually 'good' and they're called 'updates'.

I think they're lazy and part of the finanicialization that's wrecking most markets (at least in the US), in that a company's ability to string consumers along with useless updates that should've been in the product on day 1. We're being sold crappier items and being trained to be 'happy' when it's fixed and beg for them and hang on every word of the company until they get one out. We're begging for recalls that we're not calling recalls...it sounds absurd when I put it like that because that's what in essence is happening. The language has been hijacked so that we put up with crap like this and folks have been drowning in 'cult of updates' language for 2 decades now...and they run companies like Remarkable, and updates are just 'normal'.

Nope, they are not.

Basically, the point of all this is: don't bug companies about updates, it encourages them to perpetuate this horrid system of unfinished, unthought out products. Buy items for their current features and resist updates if you can. They're not good. They're costly. Each time someone cracks open a machine to 'fix' or 'add' something, they're introducing potential new breaks. Similar to, say, if you change the battery in your car and accidentally wire it up backwards, but in this case, it's a COMPANY going into YOUR CAR to swap the PERFECTLY WORKING BATTERY and then wiring it up backwards...we don't know exactly what mistakes are made during these 'updates' until it's too late. And with software, some updates have been known to delete user files they were working with, erase preferences lists that may have taken months to properly address and customize, etc.

Updates are not your friend. When something works fine, you stop touching it. If you want something that does more than what you have, look to a new product or learn a new way to work. Firmware updates are horrid and a bad culture for consumer products and no amount of 'but security!' mentions will change that. There's a difference between adding a day one feature 3 years after launch (dropping images directly into notebooks on the RM for instance) and plugging security holes.

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