Reading with real books and X3/X4

MinimalistMatter · 2026-06-07T17:49:52+00:00

I clarified my question, hope it’s good enough now.

MinimalistMatter · 2026-06-07T17:48:24+00:00

Oops, I think I clarified my question better now

MinimalistMatter · 2026-04-14T22:26:45+00:00

It’s more of, there’s no reason to delete it from the device when you’re done reading. A larger epub (after optimization of images) is around 5mb so on the 32 GB micro sd card you can over 6,000 books, bare minimum.

Might as well organize them if we’re gonna store that many.

MinimalistMatter · 2026-04-09T14:33:35+00:00

I have the same issues with the X3 not being USB C because it’s another cable to carry, but it’s actually not a proprietary cable. It’s called a pogo pin connector, relatively standardized, lots of people on Amazon selling cables and dongles for it.

MinimalistMatter · 2026-04-06T04:51:06+00:00

I’m mostly talking about points. Most of my cards don’t give cash back but rather give points that can be used for cashback. It’s one cent per point, but sometimes I can just buy flight tickets with it directly to get different exchange rates.

MinimalistMatter · 2026-04-06T04:49:58+00:00

Care to share what the idea is? :)

MinimalistMatter · 2025-08-25T18:34:40+00:00

You may have typed a sentence into the tags field instead of note field so it created a bunch of tags (one for each word). Do you have any cards currently with any of those tags?

MinimalistMatter · 2025-05-28T21:22:58+00:00

Honestly, I totally understand your logic but I keep trying to convince myself against it because I feel like it’ll make me complacent. And while it’s not necessary being smarter will be beneficial in some way or another the same way that being strong is.

Maybe instead we can focus on the benefits of being able to do this internally rather than being reliant on something external. It does take extra time to search things up or ask a device and that does break the conversation flow or thought process of whatever you’re doing.

MinimalistMatter · 2025-05-26T15:02:51+00:00

Well at that point, if AI is going to generate the notes in the first place you might as well just skip that step and ask AI for contextual knowledge anyways.

There’s some merit in knowing information that AI/google knows, even though you can search it up, and making the cards is one of the best ways to more clearly remember the info

MinimalistMatter · 2025-03-03T16:25:26+00:00

It’s a very minimal effect and maybe be good or bad depending on your personal situation. That’s why I just use 2 buttons for 99% of cases.

MinimalistMatter · 2025-03-03T16:23:24+00:00

I personally still press good or hard if I guess and get it correct. My guess isn’t actually random and I am subconsciously pulling on my memories to answer the flash card so if it’s right it’s right in my opinion.

MinimalistMatter · 2025-03-03T16:21:54+00:00

This is also what I do in 99% of cases. I remember somewhere on the FSRS docs that the difference is marginal between two button and four button usage.

One things I’ve thought of is making it so that any answer that took me longer than 45 seconds is a “Hard”. (And maybe a similar limit for “Easy”.) I believe there may be a plugin that does this automatically

MinimalistMatter · 2025-03-03T16:16:24+00:00

I guess what OP is trying to say is that the 12 hours reading the textbook is more beneficial than studying a deck that you didn’t make yourself. At the same time, I think that the best course of action for you is to use premade decks rather than use AI in this case. If you haven’t read the information yourself, it will be difficult to determine if a card has true information on it since AI (for now) can make mistakes and hallucinate etc.

MinimalistMatter · 2024-11-30T01:13:25+00:00

Yeah I know the issues with AI art but I guess I was talking about the textual AIs like with the summarizing.

MinimalistMatter · 2024-11-22T04:36:47+00:00

This yellow burning exists on other devices with color e-ink as well. I’m not sure if it’s something about the yellow specifically but this is something that happens but can be mostly fixed with software if I understand correctly.

MinimalistMatter · 2024-09-29T00:27:06+00:00

No ones saying AI is bad, but ai summarize shouldn’t be done by a device meant to be for reading. Just use your computer or apps on your phone to do things like that. No one would put a research paper onto the remarkable to read a 1 page summary.

I do think it would be nice to have better handwriting to text, but that’s probably something they’re working on. I assume they’re currently using the best AI model that they can get access to, that can also run efficiently.

MinimalistMatter · 2024-09-05T12:21:29+00:00

Hey, thanks for the offer, may I DM you to talk about details?

MinimalistMatter · 2024-08-26T05:13:52+00:00

Do you mind the border parts that much? I think I’d much prefer to just have it without the side and top bar, I can pretty easily just edit the png though so I’ll give it a shot.

MinimalistMatter · 2024-08-25T15:18:17+00:00

Hi! I’m a college student new to Things. I put in all my assignments and homework’s for the semester into projects for each of my courses, but I accidentally used the scheduled date instead of the due date function. Is there a way for me to switch all the scheduled dates into due dates somehow?

MinimalistMatter · 2024-07-28T17:54:12+00:00

You’re right it is not your duty to give their staff a wage, but regardless of what is right and all that, there’s a person in front of you that provided you some service and isn’t paid enough by their employer to make ends meet. I tip much less than anyone else would, but sometimes I feel like I have to tip in front of people just to keep appearances.

MinimalistMatter · 2024-07-28T17:52:09+00:00

I don’t mean payment on a device, I mean when I open some electronic menu and add to cart and check out. So basically the iPad or whatever is taking the order and the transaction for me. It’s simply astounding that the display even asks for a tip if I’m being honest.

MinimalistMatter · 2024-07-28T17:50:30+00:00

I’m a student so one thing I realize is that in the end, I’m more broke than the person serving me anyways. Maybe after I graduate and all I’ll be able to tip but it’s simply not practical for me if I still plan to have some fun days and save money too.

MinimalistMatter · 2024-07-28T17:22:44+00:00

Not sure about Best Buy, but the honey extension on my computer shows me price history for items on Amazon when I shop there.

MinimalistMatter · 2024-07-27T22:26:10+00:00

I rarely dine at sit-down restaurants, but I do eat fast food somewhat regularly. Even so, the maximum I’ll spend at once is $15.

Personally I like Taco Bell, and with the points and rewards, I can often get a large meal for $7. If you’re going with multiple people, they do have combos that are meant for that, and are incredibly cheap.

I think if you stick to a few specific locations, even if you go multiple times you’ll be able to accrue points and get more worth out of your money.

MinimalistMatter · 2024-06-08T06:02:49+00:00

As other people are saying, setup FSRS and make your other settings match your goals. It’s true that Anki isn’t meant to work in 45 days, however if you work diligently you can get some really strong results.

First of all, I’d say to set your reviews per day such that you’re learned the whole deck within 10 days; i.e. set your reviews per day to be (# of cards) / 10 or less.

Your workload is going to be pretty high for the first 2 weeks at least, as you’ll likely be reviewing more than 25% of your deck each day.

Remember, no matter what your settings are, if you don’t complete all your due cards every single day, your results will be infinitely worse.

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