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It'll work just fine on an iPad, several folks are doing so (Goodnotes and Notability are the most common apps people use for loading and annotating the pdf). I've done a little work towards color themes to better support the iPad, but for now it's just black & white since most customers use eInk tablets.

Hey, hyperpaper creator here! That's exactly what it is– a pdf planner that you can customize to your own needs, with lots of contextual links.

Happy to answer any questions, and thanks chrisweekly for the kind words and shoutout

Try finding work as a sole proprietor contractor, remotely for a US company. It's cheaper for them vs hiring an in-office employee, and with higher US tech salaries and currency conversion, you'll generally come out ahead too

Seconding this. Not cheap, but so worth the money. Learn UI design and RefactoringUI are the best resources I've found for engineers who want to learn design. I'm just starting Erik's Landing Page course now, and so far it's also really good.

As a big reMarkable fan, my first thought was how much the results would apply to "digital paper". I can't think of any reason why writing on its paper-like surface wouldn't confer the same benefits.

Would love to hear how your PKB integration works!

Yes, I can do that– the main change is just the amount of space available for the toolbar. Just mention it in the order form and I'll follow up with a custom build

Hey, hyperpaper creator here! One of my long term dreams for the project is to make those pdfs usable as an input source for PKMs like Obsidian. I love the promise of full-featured PKMs (searchability, long-term retention) but I don't want to be on a laptop for hours curating and typing into them. An eInk tablet is my preferred note-taking and thinking device.

The idea I want to eventually pursue is set up a service where you could sync your pdf (or send specific pages via email), have them OCRed (including dates and titles specifically since they already live in well-defined parts of the pages), and then ingest them into your PKM for long-term storage and recall

Unfortunately Obsidian Cloud doesn't seem to have an API to support this at present, but I think it's theoretically feasible with Notion at least. Let me know if you build something like this :)

> https://hyperpaper.me/ Configurable, highly linked PDF planner with a very responsive person behind it (I figure he must be around here somewhere :))

Hey, that's me :D

Thanks for the shout-out Ethan, I'm happy to answer any questions people have about hyperpaper

I just found her site a month or two ago (via HN, I think), it's really fantastic! Thanks for the pointers

I've found the same, the catharsis of writing the "Daily Notes Pages" [0] is probably the main benefit of these systems.

In my case, the immediacy of handwriting has been a better fit than typing for this purpose. I also use the reMarkable 2 with a linked pdf planner [1] that I built, and with some custom collections I find it hits about 90% of what I'd use a "proper" TfT for. Obsidian and Logseq still look pretty seductive, but I know I'd spend most of my time in the weeds configuring plugins etc.

I'm hoping the rM2's OCR and export capabilities improve over time so that we could combine the benefits of quick, effortless capture on that device (via handwriting) with automated categorization, linking and search (on my laptop, maybe via Obsidian/Logseq/etc). There's a lot of potential if someone can effectively bridge that gap! It's something I hope to explore some more this year.

[0] https://maggieappleton.com/daily-notes [1] https://hyperpaper.me/ (as seen recently on HN :)

Thank you!

I was curious about this, and my first commit was just 2 weeks before recalendar's! First hacky public "release" was in Nov 2021 :) https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/r5xj85/wo...

The hyperpaper/recalendar concepts are similar but the execution is quite different. You can try them both for free and see which one (if any) fits your brain best.

Also a note for anyone ordering and not seeing their pdf arrive within ~20 minutes– looks like due to the surge in orders from HN some of the emails are being flagged as Spam, so please check your Spam folder!

It's as big as you want it to be :) Some people build 1000+ page versions, which admittedly can push the filesize up a fair bit, but for the default config it weighs in under 3MB.

How the annotations are stored depends on the device you use. I just exported my 2022 planner in the reMarkable app with annotations (been using this file since May) and it's 32MB. So not exactly slim, but not massive either.

That would be pretty amazing, especially given most eInk devices don't have any calendar syncing to speak of.

I've used pdfcpu for some CLI pdf processing before and it's been great. Looks like it does have at least some basic functions for writing to pdf contents: https://pdfcpu.io/generate/create

Would love to hear if you get something like this working!

There's currently no way to edit your pdf after purchasing. However if you want any adjustments, just reply to the email with your planner attached, and I'm happy to make modifications and re-send. I've gotten a lot of great customer feedback and ideas this way!

It'll work anywhere a pdf works! It's literally just a heavily customizable pdf file with lots of links to make navigation a breeze

Wow, didn't expect to see this on HN! Creator here, happy to answer any questions :)

I am building something like this! It's oriented specifically towards reading the feeds via a pdf digest on eReaders like the reMarkable/Supernote/etc though.

1. configure your feeds (RSS/Atom, but also Twitter/Reddit) in a simple dashboard 2. connect Google Drive (Dropbox/OneDrive to be supported eventually) 3. on a daily schedule, a pdf file with your feeds' content will be sent to your GDrive account, which can be synced on your tablet device.

If interested, I've got a survey you can fill out to get alpha access: https://forms.gle/qmy6WMgHLxWiEgx4A

There's nothing in the main ecosystem for getting news content on the device (besides manually sending individual articles to the rM via the chrome extension).

I'm working on a project that pulls from RSS/Twitter/Reddit, formats all your subscriptions into a single pdf, and syncs to Google Drive (which the rM can sync with). It's working great for me so far but is the closest to "automatic" I think you can achieve with the device right now.

Exactly. Without an airtight national beneficial ownership registry, this "ban" is just theatre and pandering for votes

Yes you can, in fact you can ssh/scp into the device since it runs Linux and transfer over any .png files to use as templates. It's pretty neat and unusual to be able to do that on a consumer devices these days.

Check out https://remarkablewiki.com/tips/templates

Out of curiousity, which planner do you use and which feature(s)/layouts are the most useful for you?

I've started building custom pdf planners for these eInk devices (I'm an rM2 owner myself) and am always looking for insight on how people use them. Have a little website setup for this at https://hyperpaper.me

Made around $1500 in a month from https://hyperpaper.me/

It's a customized dayplanner pdf for large eInk devices like the reMarkable 2. I built it for myself initially but realized I could provide a customized build for other folks. There's still a small amount of manual work to generate them, but I should be able to automate it end-to-end soon.

I don't expect it to make much at all over the next 10 months, but I'm already excited about other things I'm planning to add for the 2023 version

The first 100-200 pages were a slog for me too. But pushing through was completely worth it, it's a masterpiece IMO

> Canada will try absolutely anything to lower the price of housing

This is absolutely not true. Canadian policymakers are willing to do almost nothing that could reduce housing prices– instead they try to induce prospective buyers to take on even more debt under the guise of "making housing affordable". Just look at every major party's housing platform in the current election– besides some very hand-wavy notions of bringing on more supply, and the LPC's plan to eliminate blind bidding, the "solutions" are almost universally focused on further stoking demand

I built something very similar that formats RSS/Twitter/etc feeds into a pdf that gets automatically pushed to my reMarkable tablet 2x daily. It's so much nicer to use than reading news online!

> which means that you must drink and drive if you want to go to the bar and drink

Taxis? Transit?

I don't believe it does save env vars. However, as an owner of a crashy 2010 MBP, tmux-resurrect saves my bacon several times a week. I very highly recommend it.

> Nobody even uses callbacks anymore now that we have Promise and async/await.

Sadly this is not true (yet)