chucktomasi

I think it's a great idea, and a great question. My advice - just be careful what you do with your marker/pen. If it's magnetically clipped, it could fall off as you put it in and pull it out of the shelf. This used to happen with my original reMarkable folio all the time when the device went in/out of my laptop bag or man-purse. I got a new case before I totally lost the marker (which is a cheaper option.)

I agree, very annoying. It's almost like a paste action with that second refresh. I hadn't noticed the second one because it's a couple seconds later. My advice at this point is to be careful to make sure all your changes are saved properly before changing pages or doing another operation.

I use circles and squares a lot. I prefer deop shadows so they stand out on the page. I also created calendars, reminders, tags, and the rarely used 🔥 and 💩.

I agree, they've spent a lot of time on the typing/Typfolio features when there are some basic features that could make the whole experience better. Right now I spend a lot of time copying/pasting icons for bullet journaling. While not a bad experience, it could be better.
And I have no immediate plans to get a keyboard. If I want type, I'll use my laptop w/Evernote. :)

Great ideas, all of them. I hope reMarkable keeps their eye on this subreddit.

FWIW, you can do custom templates with a little savvy. The catch is that each OS update wipes out your custom templates and template.json file. I've put in an enhancement request to preserve these changes and even offered an architecture based on our own company's method of preserving "overrides", but no response yet. Technically, you are correct. According to the RM docs, custom templates are not support. There's a difference between not supported and not available. :)

I've also got an enhancement request in to provide shape libraries (e.g. for bullet journaling.) I've got a collection of icons that I use and manually copy from page to page. What I asked for is a managable panel of icons that can pop out from the tool tray so it's a tap & drop (and perhaps scale) rather than so much copy/paste of my icon bar and each icon.

You can turn drawings into SVGs. Check out the Send by mail feature. You can send as PDF, PNG, or SVG. I've used this to sketch a character, then mail the SVG, import it into my 3D CAD package and send it to my 3D printer within minutes. Rapid prototyping at its best.