Hi reddit , i am really late for this train and got few and confused info thanks to internet (2 vs 3 , official pencil vs third party etc). I am studying medicine and need to take notes in the morning during lessons or while the hospital turns. My questions are: 1 it is light to carry around? 2 can i write standing up or need a desk? 3 can i upload my notes to google drive to study the evening and review patients? 4 how sensibile is to damage and can i use a bag or h24 case? 5 is it worth and work in 2023-4 with only the base set (i do not like premium or + or other money leach stuff) 6 does it have only wifi or also LAN and bluetooth? 7 is it better to wait for v3 than the old v2? 8 please somebody that live in italy could share here some info and experience with it

  • kg4zowBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If you link the tablet to the “reMarkable Connect” service, be aware that every notebook or PDF, and all notes that you wrote in/on them, are stored in a cloud service owned by google, in the EU, and are not encrypted. This means that anybody at reMarkable, or at google, or anybody who “hacks” into their systems, will be able to read your notes.

    I mention this because you mention “review[ing] patients”, and I just had to re-do my annual HIPAA training for $DAYJOB last month. You may need to consider whether it’s legal for you to store patient info in a tablet which syncs with the reMarkable Connect service.

    One option, at least in the US, is this: reMarkable has agreed to sign a Business Associate Agreement with any customer who asks. This BAA makes them liable for any data breach caused by a problem with their systems. It’s not clear to me whether this BAA would also cover google, dropbox, or microsoft.

    • I don’t know if the GDPR has any provision for something similar, or if it’s even necessary. I’m vaguely aware of the GDPR but I don’t know a lot of the details.

    • For people in the US, the Terms and Conditions for Connect, section 9, paragraph 3, has a link to the PDF you (or somebody in your hospital’s legal daprtment) would need to sign and email back to them in order for the BAA to be in force.

    Another option, which I have chosen for my own tablets, is to not link your tablet to the reMarkable Connect service in the first place. This is mostly because it’s hosted with google, and I don’t trust google not to snoop through my files. Their entire business model is based around advertising, and they have a long history of violating peoples’ privacy to feed their advertising database, even after promising the world they wouldn’t do that.

    Of course this would mean you wouldn’t be able to send files to “google drive”, and you wouldn’t be able to use the handwriting recognition (which is done by a third party’s online API).

    Finally, be aware that the the tablet only talks to the reMarkable Connect service, it never talks directly to google, dropbox, microsoft, or myscript. When you set up an integration with one of these services, you are giving reMarkable’s servers access to your accounts on those services - which again means that reMarkable, or anybody who “hacks” their servers, could also access your accounts on those services, and read not just your reMarkable files, but any files stored there.

    Other things that come to mind from your questions …

    • Most “folios”, including the ones from reMarkable, attach to the tablet magnetically. The magnets aren’t particularly strong, if you’re going to be walking around with the tablet there’s a chance it may “fall out of” the folio and hit the floor, which is NOT GOOD™.

      I use this case with both of my tablets. It “clips on to” the tablet mechanically, and it has a cut-out on the side for a reMarkable stylus, in the right spot for it to magnetically attach to the tablet, which fully encloses the stylus while it’s closed (so there’s very little chance of the stylus falling off).

    • I have one of each reMarkable stylus. I don’t use the “eraser” function at all, either using the “other end” of the stylus, or the eraser tool on the menu, so for me the extra money I spent on the “plus” stylus wasn’t worth it. However I do like the fact that the stylii fit into the cut-outs in the cases I’m using, so for me the cost of the normal stylus was worth it.