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Connect worth it? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by EasternPiglet7093@alien.top to c/remarkable@hardware.watch

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I am currently on the free trail for connect, and after this one year trial I will be paying $2.99 a month for connect. Is connect really worth it?

From my understanding, connect gives me the following:

unlimited storage. This is worthless because I can export notes as PDFs and then import them back in.
sync between devices I.E phone/laptop. This is actually decent, but o find that it decentralizes my workflow and when the syncing fails it’s annoying. A typefolio centric remarkable only workflow would fix this issue.
subscriber offers in web shop. I have not looked at these offers, but I do not think I’m missing out. Are these offers substantial?
extended warranty. I looked at this and to my understanding they do not cover dropping the tablet, spilling water on the tablet etc. They only cover mechanical build failures on their part. The likelihood of a mechanical build failure happening is very slim, so this plan seems overkill. I am wrong about this?

Are there any other connect features I am not listing here that make the connect service worth subscribing to? If instead I buy a typefolio for $218, and unsubscribe from connect, I should keep my connect free trial for one year and then once it expires I can just backup my notes as PDFs. With the typefolio I should get a more centralized workflow.

Let me know if this is a good idea or if you think connect is still worth paying for.

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[–] Computerist1969@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Imo the remarkable should sync with whatever cloud storage you already have, with no monthly fee because it wouldn't cost remarkable anything. Like how most of the iPad note taking applications work. I cancelled soon as they wanted money and I just backup manually.

[–] bskzoo@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

The only reason I think it would be worth it for your use case would be the backups. The remarkable is just like any other digital storage device, if you're not backing up the things that are important to you then you run the risk of losing it forever if it gets lost/stolen/broken.

Without the subscription, any old notes that you haven't used recently but may want to reference later would disappear were one of those things to happen. Looks like notebooks not used in 50 days.

You can always export out every document by hand, but that sounds tedious.

[–] Knox_Dawson@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm grandfathered in to connect, so I don't pay anything. If I did have to pay, I would not.

Take a look at RCU. That's the best solution for backups and managing the content of your tablet.

BTW, Connect is NOT a backup.

[–] EasternPiglet7093@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Makes sense! Thanks!

they just added new features to connect subscribers only in the newest update, you can now scale and move handwritten text.