1. How do you send the document to the Remarkable? My understanding is that Remarkable does not provide any public APIs. Do you use one of the unofficial open-source APIs? 2. Are you using pstmrk.it for tracking purposes? Maybe you can be more explicit about this in the Privacy Policy.
Additionally, the magic link email is landing in my spam inbox. I assume that this might be because you are using an icloud domain.
I use postmark because it's supposed to get emails in your inbox and because I already had an account on it. I'll see what I can do to not make it go in spam :P
Most of the complexity in the product is in:
- Scraping RSS feeds (have to use proxies to extract html and mirror all the images so that I can embed them in the digest)
- Generate PDFs of exactly the right format using Puppeteer (using cloudflare workers for this)
Any chance you’d be willing to release source code for self-hosting?
Good point around releasing the source code for self-hosting. The only painful parts are that I two commercial services here and there for stealth proxying requests to fetch articles like (https://www.scrapingbee.com/) and Puppeteer on Cloudflare Workers (https://developers.cloudflare.com/browser-rendering/platform...) to generate PDFs, so it's like $50/month to self-host something that actually works
But maybe if I open source this others can contribute too and find ways to make this cheaper to run
How would it work to send things to the Supernote? Is it enough to just send an email with the PDF?
My reasoning is financial mostly in the past when I was better off (like I am now) I bought so much crap like multiple G lenses (thousands $). Now I'm about avoiding being broke so just 1 type of similar device vs. multiple. I also had an iPad Pro which arguably their hardware is the best eg. built in lidar but I don't like the iOS ecosystem in an iPad so I got rid of that too.
I hear where you're coming from. I'm in a similar place actually, but I've embedded the reMarkable so deeply into my workflow it would be a very painful device to cut out of my professional life.
Just the ability to cast my "paper notebook" in a Zoom call is incredible.
the writing feeling is what I enjoyed the most and long battery life, you just have it sitting on the side for weeks/month(s) no charging concern
Wonder if you'd be willing to add email support? Anyways, great work, and I love the design. It really matches the design ethos of reMarkable.
> Wonder if you'd be willing to add email support?
I might add support for Kindle/Supernote and send a PDF by email to them, but I wouldn't really want to turn this thing into a business. I already build another SaaS for a living and just don't have enough energy to dedicate to this
I’ll update the colour to be a full black colour for when digests get sent out so this doesn’t happen
Edit: I just updated the fonts to just render in black for the article body so the text should be all black in your next digest
Also setting the journal prompts to black would be wonderful - they are hard to see unlike the articles.
I used it a lot over a decade ago. The feature is still there.
I guess the nice things I was able to add in this were the journaling prompts and the next thing I wanted to add was a daily puzzle kind of like the ones on:
If it gets too expensive to run I’ll just block new people from signing up and only have existing users
I'll track if some other people besides me will still use this 3-6 months from now and potentially introduce a paid tier to be able to run it forever if there's lots of people relying on it
Feel free to email me at hi@ferrucc.io and I can help you get unstuck. There are still some rough edges around the app as I made it over a couple of weekends and it was initially only intended to be used by me :)
I am curious though, when you get the token - theoretically can you access all my synchronized files and notes? How do you protect the token?
regards
I've made it very easy to both disconnect devices and void tokens, as well as delete your account completely. I'm considering adding logic to automatically disconnect devices after 90 days of inactivity to minimize the number of active tokens.
This is a personal project I made for fun, but I still made sure to follow as many best practices as possible to keep the servers safe (like setting up ufw and disabling logins with passwords)
I think remarkable should consider opening/widening their API.
have you investigating using the browser extension/word/ppt "send to remarkable" API?
if you have a patreon or community I'd love to support because the idea is great!
I'm actually considering open sourcing the entire project, which would allow security-conscious users like yourself to self-host the service. Alternatively I could also build a "self-hostable reMarkable gateway" that could issue write-only tokens, though this would require some architectural changes.
Regarding the browser extensions - unfortunately those wouldn't work for my use case since they require the user's browser to be running to execute any actions. The service needs to be able to run on its own schedule.
I don't have a Patreon set up, but your offer of support means a lot! The best way to help right now would be to probably support the development of building a more privacy focused integration once I open source the app sometime over the weekend