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Simply Customize It!

Simply Customize It Update: Bug Fix and Small Additions

Fixed an issue when adding a new template from the browse view. This update also includes an added "delete all" button to the browse views for macOS (moved the already existing one in iOS) and added the ability to set/change the default category of any newly created template.

Simply Customize It!

Simply Customize It Update: PNG Image Resizing on macOS

Mainly minor fixes. The biggest update is for macOS which now has a fix on the calculated dimensional string which led to PNG resizing. On both versions there's several small changes like putting SVG before PNG when editing templates and adding the ability to add a template directly to a category.

Simply Customize It!

Simply Customize It Update: Now With SVG Support

Added support to see, remove, and add SVG images to the templates. Also split up the resize button to be me more understandable.

SwiftUI

SwiftUI Overlays and Their Issue With Sheets

A bit ago I realized the sheets in my app covered up my overlay messaging. This wouldn't do so I figured out how to show the overlay from every spot. Check out how I created the overlay and fixed the problem here!

Simply Customize It!

Simply Customize It Update: Fix Template Syncing for reMarkable Paper Pro 3.15

Update required if connecting to a reMarkable Paper Pro with a software version of 3.15 or later; otherwise, any template syncing will attempt to connect with the wrong file. Also took the opportunity to make the app easier to navigate.

Simply Customize It!

Simply Customize It: Update for WLAN Support

Announcing the Simply Customize It update (version 1.0.2) that includes support to run the WLAN command for you.

reMarkable

Switch Out Your reMarkable Paper Pro's Sleep Screen

With the reMarkable Paper Pro out I figured it was time to share an updated post on how to switch out your screen images! Come check it out.

Simply Customize It!

Simply Customize It Update: Now Works With Your ReMarkable Paper Pro

Announcing the Simply Customize It update (version 1.0.1) that supports connecting to the reMarkable Paper Pro in addition to the older reMarkable devices.

SwiftUI

Create a Super Simple Shared SwiftUI Alert System

Do you want a simple shared alert system in your SwiftUI app that works in both iOS and macOS from, mostly, one location? No more moving it up and down a view spot seeing if it will work now!

Simply Customize It!

Announcing the MacOS Version of Simply Customize It

Earlier I announced my new app Simply Customize It and shared that it's currently listed on TestFlight in case any of you want an early look at it! Since then I've gotten the macOS version of the app functional and uploaded so you can test one

Simply Customize It!

Announcing Simply Customize It!

Back when I first bought my reMarkable e-paper device I hopped onto Facebook and through several user groups fell into the world of custom templates and sleep screen images. Right after opening it I needed to figure out how to connect so I could change out its sleep screen with

reMarkable

Update: Which Version of the reMarkable’s Templates Are Emailed Out?

Back during the summer of 2022 I tested which image type was used when you export or view a reMarkable notebook page. Recently, I redid the experiment and found the results had changed. Here they are!

reMarkable

Frequently Asked Questions I’ve Seen Around About the reMarkable

Over the last year or I've seen several reMarkable template related questions popup on Facebook user groups and each time I debate creating a post that answers all those questions. I finally decided to just make it and here's the result!

reMarkable

How I Solved My SSH Connection Error: No Matching Host Key Type Found

After a computer update I could no longer connect to my reMarkable via SSH as I had an error saying: "unable to negotiate with host: no matching host key type found". This is how I fixed the issue.

reMarkable

Which Version of the reMarkable’s Templates Are Emailed Out?

A while back I had a thought that led to me wondering "if you made a custom template with differing associated SVG and PNG files... which would you see when exporting it?" I had to find out so I concocted this little experiment and here are my results!

Technology

How to Quickly Combine PDF Files on Your Mac

Have you ever wanted to combine two PDF files together on your Mac computer? I have. And here's how I did it using the Preview app that you should already have!

Technology

How I Easily Used My Custom Color in My SwiftUI Project

I recently used one of my favorite colors on my website within my SwiftUI project. It was incredibly simple to do and I wanted to share it with you in case you want to do the same!

reMarkable

Watch How I Upload Custom Templates to My reMarkable

I've had some question about my template process so I recently spent some time creating a video walkthrough, thus combining my blog posts together, to show you how I upload my custom templates. Here's the embedded YouTube video and its transcript. Hope it helps!

Technology

How to Add Dynamic Constraints to Your Swift Project

Are you needing a more dynamic solution to your constraints than the Xcode interface builder seems to be providing? Here's how I created two constraints in my Swift code and looped them with the front end for a dynamic solution to my problem.

App Sandbox

How to Debug and Solve an App Sandbox Related Issue Within the Xcode IDE

Are you coding a project for your Apple device(s) and having inexplicable trouble getting a portion of it to work? Maybe the App Sandbox is blocking your code from executing properly? If so this is what I did to debug my issue and solve it!

reMarkable

My reMarkable2 Updated! This Is What I Did Next

Do you have a reMarkable device? Were your custom changes wiped in the last update? Are you wondering what other people did? Here's how I weathered the update if you're interested.

reMarkable

Quickly and Easily Upload Template Images to Your reMarkable

Have you uploaded a PNG to your reMarkable? Do you now want to upload several different images at once and want the task to be easier? I created a bash script to speed up my template uploading process and share it with you here!

reMarkable

Quickly Generate a JSON Template Code Snippet for Your reMarkable

Do you find it troublesome and bulky to edit your JSON code when uploading custom templates to your reMarkable? Why not speed up your process by generating the needed JSON snippet yourself? You'll still need to edit the templates.json file but now you just need to paste the code snippet in!

reMarkable

How to Make Template Files for Your reMarkable

Do you have a reMarkable device? Have you thought about creating a template file of your own for it? Do you have a PDF page or PNG image you want to use as a template? Here's how I made my template file for my reMarkable 2.

reMarkable

Switch Out Your reMarkable's Sleep Screen... Plus Easily Back it Up

Do you have a reMarkable device and an Apple computer? Are you looking to switch out the default sleep screen image for your own? Here is how I customized my reMarkable2 with a custom sleep screen image.