[HN Gopher] Show HN: A daily digest for reMarkable
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Show HN: A daily digest for reMarkable
Author : 0xferruccio
Score : 56 points
Date : 2025-01-12 14:32 UTC (2 days ago)
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| nerdw wrote:
| This is really great idea, but as a Supernote user instead of
| ReMarkable, I just wish the output could be something different
| instead of tight ReMarkable integration.
| 0xferruccio wrote:
| Thanks! Yeah I just made this for myself and figured I could
| allow others to make their digest too.
|
| How would it work to send things to the Supernote? Is it enough
| to just send an email with the PDF?
| clayhacks wrote:
| I also have a supernote and yeah I think that could work. You
| can add email accounts to a supernote and read PDFs
| yasserf wrote:
| This looks incredible, thank you for creating it! I have been
| looking for something exactly like this for a while now
| 0xferruccio wrote:
| That's amazing to hear super happy it resonates :)
| coronapl wrote:
| Really interesting project! A few questions:
|
| 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.
| 0xferruccio wrote:
| I use rmapi-js (https://github.com/erikbrinkman/rmapi-js) to
| authenticate, which allows you to get a token you can use to
| send digests to the device
|
| 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)
| coronapl wrote:
| Super interesting! I can assume that it is quite complex to
| scrape all of the RSS feeds and build the PDF. I will make
| sure to play with it.
| eightysixfour wrote:
| Doesn't rmapi-is give you read access to the user's
| remarkable library as well?
|
| Any chance you'd be willing to release source code for self-
| hosting?
| 0xferruccio wrote:
| Theoretically yes! Unfortunately there's no API with more
| restrictive permissions :P
|
| 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
| Caleb_Smith wrote:
| What a great idea! When testing this out, the text from the
| articles is somewhat opaque, which makes it difficult to read.
| The images and headers seem look fine though.
| 0xferruccio wrote:
| Hey Caleb thanks for reporting this! I hadn't noticed it in my
| use, but I do use a dark shade of gray for the pdf
|
| 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
| ge96 wrote:
| I had an RM2 it was great, love that writing texture feel and how
| you can program it yourself too that's nice. I never subscribed
| with mine or even connected it to WiFi. I'm still unsure if I
| will get one again as I think I would just use something like a
| Surface Book.
|
| 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.
| Ancapistani wrote:
| I had the rM2, and recently sold it and bought an rPP.
|
| 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.
| ge96 wrote:
| that sounds resource intensive to cast, so I guess that's the
| difference between rPP and rM2? I guess it's just a greyscale
| image being streamed.
|
| 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
| eightysixfour wrote:
| Both had the ability to cast with the remarkable app.
| shekhar101 wrote:
| I am RM2 user and this is useful for me. I signed up not
| expecting much but that digest designer is so well done! Kudos.
| Beautifully executed. Signed up and looking forward to the
| digests.
| BeetleB wrote:
| Does Calibre not work with reMarkable? It has a feature that
| simulates a newspaper. You create a recipe for a website (e.g. NY
| Times), and have it run once a day. Based on how you created the
| recipe, it will pick all the articles in the last day and package
| it into an ePub (with TOC).
|
| I used it a lot over a decade ago. The feature is still there.
| 0xferruccio wrote:
| Haven't tried that! Will try it out and see how it compares as
| I assume it does most of the things my app does
|
| 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:
|
| https://sudokupad.svencodes.com
| citizenpaul wrote:
| How does this make money? I'm just curious? Data aggregate sales?
| 0xferruccio wrote:
| It doesn't make money, I was already hosting it for myself and
| decided to share the spare server capacity for good karma on
| the internet!
|
| If it gets too expensive to run I'll just block new people from
| signing up and only have existing users
| dingnuts wrote:
| This is really nice of you but if you want to serve the
| public it wouldn't hurt to think about how the service can be
| made self sufficient financially so that when you no longer
| wish to run it, or want to, it can be handed off to someone
| wants to do so, and without being a burden or needing more
| charity
| 0xferruccio wrote:
| Good point! I'm not against the idea potentially charging
| for this if people like it
|
| 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
| artemonster wrote:
| does this work with boox?
| 0xferruccio wrote:
| Unfortunately it does not! If you/someone has any appetite I
| can open-source this so people can can contribute more
| integrations (some friends wanted to get the PDF sent to a
| kindle email)
| makach wrote:
| I keep getting unauthorized? Is there an FAQ or dummy guide?
| 0xferruccio wrote:
| Hey there are you getting unauthorised on the website? Maybe
| you can try and hard reload the webpage and it should work!
|
| 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 :)
| makach wrote:
| I got it to save, after fiddeling a little bit with the
| template and saving it.
|
| 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
| 0xferruccio wrote:
| Theoretically yes - the authorization allows read/write
| access to articles on the device as unfortunately there's
| no API with write-only permissions for the reMarkable. I
| store tokens securely on my VPS that hosts the site in a
| SQLite DB.
|
| 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)
| makach wrote:
| Thank you for the honest answer. It is a definitive show-
| stopper for me to continue using your service considering
| how much access you will accumulate in your database - I
| am sure your current setup is technically more secure
| than any enterprise solution - however - considering my
| notes and remarkable are sensitive information, and
| contain (c) documents I cannot risk it.
|
| 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!
| groos wrote:
| The bottom image on the page got me believing there was something
| wrong with me :-)
| dSebastien wrote:
| I hoped to find something different: a digest of my recent notes.
| Would be cool as well
| j6m8 wrote:
| you could try my https://github.com/j6k4m8/goosepaper :)
| 0xferruccio wrote:
| oh wow this is so cool! would've saved me the time of
| building this from scratch if I knew about this :)
| kevinsundar wrote:
| This is really cool! I unfortunately don't have a reMarkable but
| I run a similar "free personalized email digest" service
| https://www.getchangelog.com mainly for people following changes
| to tools / services / Github repos & other RSS feeds.
|
| 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.
| 0xferruccio wrote:
| That's super cool! Your product reminds me of
| https://mailbrew.com/ which I used for a couple of years
|
| > 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
| calvinmorrison wrote:
| I got a remarkable and i love it. its a linux tablet. i can ssh
| in. i love it
| mlamina wrote:
| Man... I'm not kidding. This morning I thought "I should build a
| news aggregator for my reMarkable". Thanks for saving me the work
| 0xferruccio wrote:
| Love to hear that :)
| archydeb wrote:
| Lovely landing page, appreciate the care over the icons!
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