2026-07-06

Maxime Rivest demo turning a reMarkable Paper Pro into Tom Riddle’s diary

narrative interfaces; AI gets more compelling when wrapped in a strong object metaphor

Original source

Reading Log X Post Historical Backfill LLM Research

What it is: Maxime Rivest demo turning a reMarkable Paper Pro into Tom Riddle’s diary

Gist: real hardware/software hack where handwritten ink fades, an on-device LLM reads the page, and replies animate back in handwriting; strongest idea is AI as object/interface magic rather than another chat box

Newsletter angle: narrative interfaces; AI gets more compelling when wrapped in a strong object metaphor

Retrieval note: X media post grounded in the linked GitHub repo/README (MaximeRivest/riddle)