The email body length seems to be limited to 255 characters. I don't have hopes that can easily be expanded, but if it's possible that would be great.

Alternatively it would be helpful to display the number of remaining characters while typing the email body.

Hello,

First, thank you for you awesome work!

EDIT: I had a suggestion but I realised this is included in the zen mode, excellent!

On paper, I often use a gray highlighter for shadow/shading.

It would be awesome to have that on remarkable as well. It looks great on the device, but as soon as I open the document on another device with color, it is awful.

This would really make my day.

Can we add a gesture or button to go back to home screen? Maybe it could be an additional item on the menu button (where we disable swipes exists for example).

I realize this is minor since we do have the home button, but it would be cool to not have to rely on buttons at all. Thanks for this great project.

Could you add battery status on the toolbar?
I think it's convenient. What do you think about it?
Thanks in advance!

Hi, two questions re: reading mode:

1. When I tap the screen, it appears that page turns are backwards. If I tap the left side of screen, it advances to next page, and when I tap the right side of screen it goes to prior page. Am I doing something wrong? Perhaps this is because I'm a lefty, and have the UI in left-handed mode?

2. Besides the obvious answer of "for reading", can you explain functions (or restrictions) of reading mode?

Thanks again for this incredible hack!

First of all,

thankyou for these awesome tools! I really enjoy using them!
I have one question tough:
In my remarkable home directory (/home/root) appeared some files which I don't know if they belong there:

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         39305 Mar  4 07:34 patch_01
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         43121 Apr  7 16:09 patch_02
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       4157340 Apr  7 16:09 xochitl
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       4153248 Mar  4 07:34 xochitl.2106
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       4157340 Apr  7 16:09 xochitl.2113

Installed the patches using
sh -c "$(wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ddvk/remarkable-hacks/master/patch.sh -O-)" and hitting Ctrl+C
Is the homedirectory really the path where the binaries belong to?

Thanks again! Great work!

I got a Lamy pen, which is compatible with reMarkable tips and works really well.
The pen has a handy button which would be useful as an eraser toggle, but unfortunately the remarkable ignores its events.
In /dev/input/event0 you get:

• type: 1 code: 331 value: 1 on button down
• type: 1 code: 331 value: 0 on button up

Would it be possible to patch the event loop so that these events are properly handled?

For me this solution would be even superior to the new Marker with eraser since I would be able to use the precision of the marker tip to erase...

Even after clearing the QML cache, running the patch causes a crash.

root@remarkable:~# sh -c "$(wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ddvk/remarkable-hacks/master/patch.sh -O-)" 
Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com (151.101.0.133:443)
wget: note: TLS certificate validation not implemented
-                    100% |******************************************************************************|  3001  0:00:00 ETA
Disk space seems to be enough.
Version 2.1.1.3 - patch_05
Connecting to github.com (13.250.177.223:443)
wget: note: TLS certificate validation not implemented
Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com (151.101.0.133:443)
patch_05             100% |******************************************************************************| 50549  0:00:00 ETA
Cleaning up...
Trying to start the patched version...
You can play around, press CTRL-C when done.
12:01.113                          evdevtouch: Using device discovery
12:01.121                          evdevtouch: Adding device at "/dev/input/event1"
12:01.129                          evdevtouch: Using device /dev/input/event1
12:01.166                          evdevtouch: /dev/input/event1: Protocol type B  (multi), filtered=no
12:01.167                          evdevtouch: /dev/input/event1: min X: 0 max X: 767
12:01.167                          evdevtouch: /dev/input/event1: min Y: 0 max Y: 1023
12:01.167                          evdevtouch: /dev/input/event1: min pressure: 0 max pressure: 0
12:01.167                          evdevtouch: /dev/input/event1: device name: cyttsp5_mt
sh: line 125:   302 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) QT_LOGGING_RULES=*=false ./xochitl.patched
It crashed?
Cleaning up...

Two suggestions regarding bookmarks:

• show bookmarks also when showing recent files with long press of middle button (or offer other button option)
• I realised I could name bookmarks by a long press in the upper right corner - how cool! Suggestion: if the document has a table of contents default the bookmark name to the current TOC title. Don't know if that's easy to do but I'd enjoy the idea of just bookmarking a page and have a good chance to have a fitting bookmark title automatically :-). Pages without a TOC-entry could even default to the last known TOC-entry + something added like "+5" meaning "five pages after". Thus " Indroduction+2" would mean page three of the introduction.

Just dreaming :-) ... Thanks for maybe considering what's feasible ...

I've been wondering whether it's possible to distinguish different pens from the software side (do pens have a kind of uuid or pen-type-id they transmit?).

Thus it would be awesome to e.g. automatically switch the pen type -- when grabbing a Staedler e.g. automagically using the pencil, for the Lamy a pen and the original RM pen a ballpoint.

That would be totally awesome for paper people, I think ;-) ...

Once again: thanks for your awesome patches - it's like Christmas and Birthday at the same time :-) ...

Whenever a document is closed, the Eraser will reset back to Eraser even if it was set to Selection before closing

Hi,
Thanks for those amazing features.
I noticed that in left handed mode the button for switching between writing and erasing in zen mode stays the same. I think it would be a bit more convenient to have the button, when using the left handed mode on the right side.
Thanks!

Hello,

I just got a Lamy pen with a button. I installed the last patch (22048/patch_03). I see in the option that I can chose between "Toggle Erase/Pen" or "Hold to erase". However, in both modes pressing the button does not seem to do anything work.

Am I doing something wrong?

Zen mode deactivates Bookmarks creation, but the toggle is (fortunately) still visible in the Share menu.
However it's not working. I used bookmarks a lot and always have Zen mode enabled, so it would be really cool to keep the toggle functional even in Zen

I wondered if it would be possible to use actual colours for the pens, highlighters etc. in a similar way to how the Sony DPT-RP1 does. The colours obviously show in grayscale on the reMarkable when you're using them, but show true on the output document when viewed on computer/smartphone etc. It would be great to have colourful notes!

First of all: thanks so much for your work. You are transforming the rM into what it ought to be!

Reporting from 2.1.1.3, patch 5_1-10:

In M mode, with menu toggled off, there is no minimised icon to restore the menu. The only way to toggle back the menu is with swipe down. If swipes are disabled, there is no way to get the menu back -- or at least I could not find any :-( (I have tried to hold the left and right buttons pressed for some time but it does not help. Restart restores the menu.)

I admit this might count as a user error, but I thought I should report it anyway.

As a lefty, when I am writing toward the top of the page, I constantly find that the edge of my hand is toggling bookmarks off and on, and often, opening the edit bookmark function. The latter obviously interrupts my writing, as I need to close the edit bookmark menu before continuing. And I end up removing and adding bookmarks by accident.

Without the hack installed, I have a similar problem with the close document button, which rM put in the same place.

Is there any way to relocate the bookmark location for lefties? Perhaps just to the left of the menu toggle in the upper right corner? Or maybe relocating for everyone, if there are righties who are having a similar issue?

Thanks so much for a great hack!

Did you implement same patches with 22048 and 2113 version ?

Once the Recent Files list is brought up with the middle button long-press, I can't find a way to close the list without selecting a file. I've done this a couple of times while intending to do a long-press for Undo. Could you add a way to close the recent file list, perhaps either by tapping outside the list, or a second long-press, or both?

Thanks for your work to make the rM so much better!

I love the hacks here!

One thing I wish for:
I am left handed and keep triggering the bookmarks page, and I do not actually use this particular feature.

It would be great if I could move/disable the corner button.

Hello, I'm getting an error message when trying to run this script via Windows 10. I type the following into the openSSH client window at the prompt "remarkable: ~/ " :

sh -c "$(wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ddvk/remarkable-hacks/master/patch.sh -O-)"

It returns this error message:
wget: bad address 'raw.githubusercontent.com'

Thanks for any help you can offer.

I like to use PDF-files as forms to fill out. Unfortunately I realized I couldn't find the magic "A"-button to do text recognition on my handwritten notes. Any chance to make it available for pdf-files, too?

Hello,
not sure if I am trialling it wrong but have tried different patches. When I test it out, the menu loads as normal, with then the remarkable-hacks menu over the top of it, making there be effectively two menus that interfere with one another. All the features seem to work fine, but because two menus appear to load, it often ends up reverting to the remarkable menu option.

If this doesn't make sense, I can upload photos to display what I mean.

Many thanks

The recent-files popup does not respect landscape mode: it comes out turned 90 degrees, as if the device were in portrait mode. (It is still fully functional and super useful. Thanks a lot for implementing it.)

The Recent Files menu is super convenient for switching between documents quickly. It would be awesome if a quick double click of the center home button would switch you to the most recently viewed document.

As the rM2 won't have buttons it'll have to all be done with gestures.

Currently a big limitation of reMarkable xochitl application is that it is not possible to paste to a different page. Would it befeasible to implement this?

Thanks a lot in advance for your great contributions!

Firstly thank you for your work with this and the excellent tools.

I bookmarked & labelled some pages in a notebook and then added some new pages to the notebook. The existing bookmarks still referred to the original page numbers rather than updating to account for the new pages.

The notebook is in portrait mode.
In the "known issues" I see that "bookmark position stays the same in landscape mode" which implies that it isn't usually an issue in portrait mode.

Should this be working? If so I'll try running the latest version (the current one was installed a few weeks ago once the 2.1 update came through and I could use SSH.

Otherwise, is there an easy way to change the pages bookmarks refer to without deleting the old ones and adding new ones?

Thank you!

Got a seg fault when trying to get latest patch. Any ideas?

root@remarkable:~# sh -c "$(wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ddvk/remarkable-hacks/master/patch.sh -O-)"
Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com (151.101.192.133:443)
Disk space seems to be enough
Version 2.1.1.3
Connecting to github.com (140.82.112.3:443)
wget: note: TLS certificate validation not implemented
Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com (151.101.192.133:443)
patch_02 100% |**************************************************************************************************************************************| 43121 0:00:00 ETA
cleaning up
Trying to start the patched version
You can play around, press CTRL-C when done
sh: line 125: 402 Segmentation fault (core dumped) ./xochitl.patched > /dev/null 2>&1
It crashed?
cleaning up

At the moment only the writing layers of a pdf page will be moved/translated in your current patch 05.8

Zen mode is a fantastic improvement and what the RM has been missing for a long time. Thank you for that and all your amazing patches!

I was wondering if it might be possible to add a feature to zen mode to allow a quick undo, or several quick undos. Perhaps a double press of the left button could cause an undo and a single slightly longer press toggle the writing implement.

What do you think?

How hard do you think adding simple shapes would be? Like drawing circles / rectangles.

Possible workarounds:

• Overlaying a semi-transparent shape which could be moved/resized, so that one may draw the shape by following the overlay.
• Creating a page with standard shapes (circle / square / ...). Then the user can copy/paste/resize these shapes at will in another layer.

(Thanks for the great work so far, this project is invaluable.)

This warning pops out for me when trying to make it permanent, then the tablet crashed and reverted me back to 1.8. I believe it is due to the limited space available in /usr, and how previous installed binary patches take up spaces.

When I switch documents, the eraser type (e.g. selection erase) is reverted to the default eraser. Having the eraser type persisted would save having to set it manually each time.

It is wonderful that last used pen is remembered for new notebooks. Thanks so much for that. I hope I do not appear ungrateful by suggesting that also the orientation (portrait/landscape) could be remembered for new notebooks.

(I feel a bit ashamed by entering four tickets in a row like this, as if I were unsatisfied. On the contrary, I am absolutely marvelled by the fact that the rM is now moving forward, thanks to your work! (while the official rM development team seems to be stuck. I have turned off auto-update, because your patches are more important than official increments.)

Having just sent a document as email I realized that I missed the comma "," on the first page of the keyboard (in my case: German) and had to switch to page 2 several times to insert it.
As I noticed that the various keyboard layouts consist of varying numbers of "keys" I wonder if you could sneak in a comma button onto the first page.

One of the things that I find difficult about the rM eraser is that there's no indication, visually while erasing, of the footprint of what will be erased. Is there any chance you could add something like Photoshop's visual indicator of eraser footprint, as shown in this video?

https://youtu.be/NpKOcPIK2oY?t=30

Perhaps the refresh rate of the e-ink screen makes this unworkable, but I figured I'd ask. Thanks so much for considering this addition to an already fantastic hack!

The temporary page indicator is shown for 5 seconds after page changed in original Remarkable software (as in a picture below).
It's completely disabled with remarkable-hacks.
I don't mind having it disabled while toolbar enabled (there is page indicator "x of y"). However it would be really useful while the toolbar is hidden.

Could you please put it back while toolbar is hidden? If it's not possible to differentiate the state it would be better to have it there as in original Remarkable software.

Hello,

Version 2.2 has just been installed on my remarkable. The hack does not yet seem supported with it. Can I do anything to make it work? (e.g., downgrade my remarkable version or something else)

I click on the bookmark, icon goes black, but nothing else happens, not sure if this is how its intended to work. Im on 2113, just installed latestpatch.

Hi. Can U please fix this? If I bookmark a page like the third one with a “C”, and then insert another page in front of it, my bookmark “C” will stay on the third page, which is now “E”. And so I loose my bookmark for the page “C”

In landscape mode, the menu is too short to hold all the items. In particular, the bookmarks submenu is absent. Personally I would rather sacrifice the eye button, but of course I do realise that different users have different needs.

thanks for your ncie hack! I just noticed that somehow the symbols for battery lifetime and wifi connectivity are gone.
Is it possible you removed them on accident?

By following the instructions on the readme, I ran the following line on the RM

sh -c "$(wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ddvk/remarkable-hacks/master/patch.sh -O-)"

Here's my ouput

remarkable: ~/ sh -c "$(wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ddvk/remarkable-hacks/master/patch.sh -O-)" 
Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com (151.101.112.133:443)
wget: note: TLS certificate validation not implemented
-                    100% |*******************************************************************************************|  3508  0:00:00 ETA
Disk space seems to be enough.
Version 2.0.2.0
Connecting to github.com (140.82.118.3:443)
wget: note: TLS certificate validation not implemented
Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com (151.101.112.133:443)
patch_224            100% |*******************************************************************************************| 39533  0:00:00 ETA
The backup /home/rmhacks/xochitl.2020 is not the original file (was it replaced/ deleted?), cowardly aborting...

Can't figure out what it is and how to fix it

Hi when I tried to patch version 2113 I got the following wget error:

Disk space seems to be enough.
Version 2.1.1.3 - patch_2113
Connecting to github.com (140.82.118.3:443)
wget: note: TLS certificate validation not implemented
wget: server returned error: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

I tried to wget the patch.sh and the patch binary manually there seems to be no issue. But I would like to use Automagic for safety reason because I am not very literate on Linux commands yet.

Please help. Thanks

In a lot of pdf ebooks, there will be a cover, introduction, etc, then the page numbers will start 10-20 pages into the book. This results in reMarkable's page number and the book's page numbers not lining up, making "go to page" hard to use. It would be nice if there was some way to tell it "this page is zero", and then all the pages before it would be negative.

I just stumbled upon your hacks this week and love them! Great work.

I'm wondering if it's possible to make better use of the key feature of eink: not needing power to display anything.

Idea: add a power saving book reading (not annotating) mode:

• turn wifi off
• rm displays page, but goes to sleep mode (disable the used overlay png or use a totally transparent one)
• when pressing the left or right of the button rm wakes up, turns the page and goes to sleep again
• middle button could come back to regular mode

(if it's not possible to detect which button woke up from sleep, a double press could do: first one to wake up, second for page turn)

I'm wondering if this could result in any significant power savings, so - just for reading - the rm could actually last for days ...

(as for the regular reading mode: I'd like to be able to disable the "tapping" feature to turn pages -- I prefer the buttons, and even disabled swipes ...)

Thanks again for the great work!

You have created a lot of wonderful tweaks, but I use the bookmarks, recent documents, and I enjoy the show first page in thumbnails. Can you separate the tweaks so they each have their own installer or make an installer that allows me to pick which tweaks are installed onto my device?

Something like:

Install bug fixes? [y/N]
Install Zen Mode? [y/N]
Install Bookmarks? [y/N]
Install $LAYER-SWITCHER? [y/N]
Move "Go to Page" to toolbar? [y/N]
Resize toolbar icons? [y/N]
Make thumbnails show first page? [y/N]

And so forth for all of the different tweaks.