I’m with you. While the rM company thinks that the cloud syncing is a key feature, to me it’s a key nuisance. If you don’t want your files in the cloud you can only disconnect the account, but then you lose all other features they tied to Connect as well. And FWIW I don’t give a s*** about privacy statements. That’s just “paper”, not technology.
It’s not stupid to ask such a thing. It’s precisely what happens, after a product was well engineered, thoroughly tested and released: the first real user “is holding it wrong” and all those engineers and testers are flabbergasted “WHO would DO that??”. Well, YOU would ;-) and that’s good.
Good idea to use a scripted RCU to do a backup. Not sure its CLI allows it, though? You can do a backup from the UI by selecting all (ctrl-A) and click the download button.
You could also do a full backup with rsync, basically just
rsync -rtb --delete -v rm:/home/root/.local/share/remarkable/xochitl
I used this in a script, which I start whenever I made a significant change on the rM: https://github.com/RedTartan04/rMbackup
My backup directory is also a local git repo, so I can keep versions.
Use the search function for other backup solutions.
Yes. IIRC there is no central tag database file, which could be edited and backed up? Not sure.
Each notebook’s .content file has a section “pageTags” and I think (?) the software collects them from all notebooks?
Here is a tool that does just that to create a list of all tags and where they are used: https://github.com/rwilcox/remarkable_tags_index
This is IMHO one of the big omissions in rM’s paper metaphor. To “be like paper” also means you can have some of you favorite pens laying around on your desk and be able to quickly switch between them.
…, configurable pens