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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I work for a large multi national and they won’t let me download the remarkable app which is fairly obvious. But what is the best way to:

Import PDFs to the remarkable without the desktop app? Generally these will be market research docs, articles, nothing sensitive
Export notes or at least view notes on my laptop? Generally will be diagrams, general notes or annotated PDFs

My work have OneDrive but not sure if the integration by default would work.

What is the best way to make it as productive as possible? Also, anyone know a way of screenshots without the desktop App?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you connect the tablet via USB, there's a toggle in the settings which lets you access the tablet from a web browser. It allows you to copy stuff to and from the tablet.

It works on my work laptop which has the USB ports locked down for data - I can normally plug in the items approved for work like my printer, hearing aid programmers, video otoscope etc but it doesn't allow me to use non-Bitlockered USB drives. The tablet doesn't show as a storage device like you'd normally expect and uses some kind of black magic fuckery to transfer data.

You can also use OneDrive to download stuff to the tablet, but I don't think you can go the other way and upload anything to the cloud. My workaround is to simply email any marked up documents to myself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The computer thinks it's a USB ethernet adapter. The reMarkable tablet runs a DHCP server and, when you plug in the cable, it assigns a 10.11.99.x IP to that interface on your computer.

Be careful with third-party integrations. They work by storing a copy of your credentials for (google, dropbox, or microsoft) in reMarkable's cloud servers. The tablets don't talk directly to those services, they only talk to reMarkable's cloud servers, and those talk to the outside services.

If you think your large corporation doesn't like non-encrypted USB sticks, they're really not going to like you handing your username and password to an outside company like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The tablets don't talk directly to those services, they only talk to reMarkable's cloud servers, and those talk to the outside services.

That's a very good point I never considered.

Thanks for the info on how the USB connection works. It's close to how I assumed it worked but I wasn't confident enough to answer!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you work for a large multinational and they won't allow you to install a third party app that they haven't verified and approved, I'm going to assume they also have restrictions on sharing data outside of their network.

Do not attempt integration of a personal device with your company resources without running it by - at least - your one-up first. You could be playing with your job if you're caught breaking privacy and data management policy.

Use your rM like you would any notebook, for taking notes and possibly sending notes into your office environment, but don't try to sync or taking anything out of your environment without company approval.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That said, the web interface at my.remarkable.com/myfiles may work to allow you to upload documents to the device. But again, I advise caution as different organizations have different levels of activity blocking and tracking online and the file movement could be detected as malicious activity performed by your sign-in ID.

At the web interface, you can see the listing of your files and folders, but not open any of the documents themselves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I use the web acces to upload docs from my work computer to the tablet. You just need wifi for the RM2.

My work onedrive doesn't allow to connect to RM2.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Most large corporates also don't like the dual homing situation that connecting your Rm2 to the work laptop brings. As it connects and sets up a dhcp interface you are essentially working on two networks.

My company laptop then proceeds to cut off the corporate network connection that sees the other network.

Dual homing is a real pain in the arse :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I email pdf docs to my personal phone which has the ReMarkable app installed. Then it’s a simple case of saving the docs to the app. I hotspot to my RM and it syncs the doc to my RM. No sensitive info in my role.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

We have something like this. But there’s a stupid workaround. My company won’t let you open a downloaded application in a browser. So I open up my downloads in chrome. Drag the download on the desktop and it will execute and install. Actually did this today with the remarkable app. Weird coincidence.

Idiots.