Hello everyone
Does anyone have any comments on the interoperability between Remarkable (writing tablet) and Scrivener? I’m swimming in a sea of handwritten notes and looking at ways to be more versatile in how I write and convert the handrwitten text into typed notes.
Thanks!.
As far as I know, there is not a good way to do what you are asking about.
I too would love to find some way to integrate notes I can scribble on my Kindle Scribe (similar product) while proofing a manuscript and sadly there doesn’t seem to be a way to do that short of just popping the annotated PDF into the binder somewhere, but that doesn’t accomplish my goal.
I am not familiar with the Remarkable ecosystem. It might be enough to export plaintext from your scribbled notes, but that would be where I would start. Remember you can insert images (such as screengrabs or export-as-png/jpg of each written page) into the Binder in Scrivener and that might get you closer to what you are looking to do as you could organize the pages into some structure that makes sense to you.
I use my Kindle scribe to create handwritten notes that Kindle AI will transfer to PDF for email. It is also great toilet mark-up PDF drafts for updates.
Not sure about android, but with i phone, I dictate into the notes section. Open the Icloud on my computer and then transfer by cut and paste into scrivener. You could dictate the current handwritten notes on the iphone and then transfer to Scrivener.
Yes, I have a Remarkable 2 and I had this issue of multiple parts to organize for my novel.
I moved the main draft to Scrivener, and now it’s easy to navigate.
But I prefer the RM2 for the nomad writing and for long editing sessions.
So what I do is that I manually “check out” the part I need to work on from Scrivener to RM2 (I have a black RM icon for those in Scrivener).
The copy - paste works fine that way: Scrivener to RM2
But when I copy from RM2 to Scrivener, I have this issue: loss of italics. So I had to write a small html/js standalone app to convert the clipboard, and now it’s fine. The tool: Paste as HTML not getting the italics (bold and the rest is ok) - #5 by LoneDraft
When the text is back in Scrivener (end of editing session), I reset the icon to default.
And for my >100 part I have a visible progress with a colored dot.
I hope this help.
I hope that one day Scrivener can be brought to embedded Linux, such as this kind of e-ink device. However, currently, there is even no desktop Linux version. I think it’s a difficult task.
I used to handwrite drafts on E-ink devices, but by the time I had accumulated nearly 2000 pages, I had only successfully written less than 1/3 of the content in the main text.
This was too bad, so I gave up handwriting and switched to solely using Scrivener’s Outline view for my brainstorming. Whenever I had an idea, I would create a new document and write the initial thought and subsequent additions into the title and description, respectively.
Believe me, once you get used to typing, it won’t lead to a lack of creativity. Turning ideas into actual texts is the most important thing. Instead of fussing over how to transfer and store handwritten pictures between devices, it’s better to quickly weave them into a plot.
E-ink devices often only offer good latency performance with pre-installed note-taking software, but their synchronization with PCs is quite poor. If you insist on handwriting, I suggest you get an Android tablet or iPad and use OneNote for synchronization. This way, you can at least easily view your handwriting notes on a computer fastly.
On the other hand, if one who just want to view Scrivener documents on other devices, I might be able to write a local web service that provides a Binder, grabs the content of the selected document, and refreshes it immediately after saving.
A easy webserver here:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iqc3gi0p5R0yQDI1zwPRFmxg_GP5lLmn/view?usp=sharing
Yes, and… maybe not.
I miss this kind of feature on my RM2, and so in a way I wish it was available on RM2, but I think
So, yes and no.
This seems to be an increasingly revolutionary idea, but all of the above sounds to me like a very expensive, fragile and complicated way of trying to replace paper and pen.
Scan the pages in (or snapshot with the phone if you don’t have a scanner), throw them into a folder in your binder, split the view, and start writing/transcribing.
Hello everyone and thank you for the comments, feedback and tips. I love hearing how peers iterate and develop their ideas. Me - I write by hand - type and then edit. It embeds the ideas more. I’m exploring whether paper or an e-tablet that feels like paper works in the way I develop ideas. I’ve also explored recording to text and - it’s been useful in connecting ideas.
Sinead