MidgetAtAFoamParty

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Improving document visibility in reMarkable 2 in c/remarkable@hardware.watch
[โ€“] MidgetAtAFoamParty@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

There's 2 options as far as I know:

  1. With some creativity: create a PDF file on your computer to serve as your "empty notebook" with required backgrounds, which you then write on top of on the RM2
  2. With some creativity + light hacking: create your own custom template PNG file with the darker lines on your computer and transfer it to your device via SSH. You can make it appear in the template selection screen. There's other posts on this subreddit which detail the process. I think it still comes with a caveat that custom templates need to be reinstalled after each software update.
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Do you keep your notes, or treat them as ephemeral? (alien.top)
 

I'm noticing I get stuck a lot on thinking about notebook structure and file structure in terms of how I'll archive them. But especially for notes I take while working on tasks, there's actually no need to keep them once the task's done and the information's on the page itself is migrated to my digital tools. So I'm considering just treating these kinds of notes as ephemeral.

I was just curious how picky others are about the notes they actually archive for long term keeping?

Organization Strategies in c/remarkable@hardware.watch
[โ€“] MidgetAtAFoamParty@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

ADHD here too. Which means, disclaimer, my setup constantly changes because I confuse mental chaos with "something's wrong with my organization and I have to fix it NOW" :)

I try to use the RM2 as a short term memory, to externalize my thinking while doing stuff. I found a few things that help me:

  • In general, being very very picky with the functionality I use. Tags, too many notebooks, using fancy hyperlinked PDF documents, all give me choice paralysis and too much unnecessary overhead when I'm trying to put pen to paper.
  • Just simple notebooks all at the root, so it's all in plain sight.
  • A notebook per "activity". For me that means: "working on work projects", "working on personal projects", "journaling" and "sketching". Since the latest picked template and tool is remembered within each notebook, that means my "sketching" notebook sticks to white paper and pencil when I create a new page, while project notebooks are fineliner and grid, etc.
  • One page per day for journal, one per "open loop" for projects, etc.
  • Folders are for not-now stuff. Like books to read later, etc. I keep the book I'm currently reading at the root level, next to my few notebooks.
  • I favorite my journal, work and personal projects notebook, so that during productive hours I can switch between braindumping for a personal project, working on my work task, do some interstitial journaling to ground myself, ...

Not entirely sure how I'll do archiving, or if I'll just treat most notebooks as ephemeral scrap paper. I'm thinking of doing a monthly clean up where I email myself PDF exports and recreate empty notebooks.