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Haven't posted much about @repebble.com Index 01 recently (been...uh a bit in the weeds on PT2 shipping). But lots of progress has been made! Good news - we're in PVT2! Yes, 2 :)

The first PVT exposed two probs 1) possible ESD damage during assembly was blowing out the BLE amp on some units, 2) a change we made to the mic membrane caused some units to fail audio testing. We fixed both with modifications to the assembly line. Things seem to be on a good track now with PVT2!

When will my Index 01 ship? Our goal is to manufacture the first 2k units by mid-May and start shipping them out. It will take us roughly 3 months to manufacture and ship out all pre-orders, meaning we should be finished by July. As always, these are estimates. Delays may happen!

Brushed Silver We are switching from offering a polished silver to brushed silver finish! It looks great - photo below, with lots more to come. Head to orders.rePebble.com to switch colours.

Alpha testers Thanks to some brave souls who've been using early versions of Index 01 and reporting bugs, we've crushed a ton of software issues over the last 3 months! Performance and reliability are starting to be really smooth on iOS and Android.

Software improvements All open source, of course! github.com/coredevices/... - We added fully encrypted cloud backup (optional) - Local speech-to-text is working well, thanks to github.com/cactus-compute/cactus + parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3!

- You can optionally route audio or transcriptions to a webhook - enabling you to pipe recordings directly from your Index 01 to an agent like OpenClaw - Our lead engineer also added Home Assistant support (because she wanted it herself!!).

- Added Beeper (text directly from Index 01!), music control (Android only), Notion, Apple Reminders and Google Tasks integration - Bring your own MCP server Still working on a lot of stuff - dramatically improved UI, more reminder app integrations (Todoist, Tasks.org), and more.

Obsidian

I've been trying to think through how that would work here: github.com/coredevices/... please weigh in!

My ideal use case is also to write to Obsidian. Namely, open my current daily note and add a bullet point with my dictation.

Great to hear about Google Tasks integration! I'd love to be able to use the voice prompt to choose the list that the task gets added to. eg I'd say something like "to personal: pick up milk," and "to work: send an email," where I have lists named "personal" and "work."

We should not only be able to add items to lists, but resolve those items. I should be able to say "remind me to drum", it adds a reminder. And then I should be able to say, "OK, done drumming" and it checks it off. Same with the shopping list.

Probably not going to do this - too much chance it checks off the wrong one accidentally

I'm using Google Keep, so still hoping on a resolve of issuetracker.google.com/issues/44075... 😅

Honestly, that is the thing that annoys me the most about Index: I'm going to have to switch off of Google Tasks because it doesn't support that!