As a business executive, I just bought one, and for the pure organizational structure, it saves my life. No more sticky notes, missing notebooks, and running out of room. So happy with this thing!!
As a Therapist I've been following the company for a while looking for better ways to take notes, brainstorm ideas for clients, books and classes. Thank you for the review, paper is my muse and I hate keeping up with notebooks worrying about privacy and as a mental health professional/with ADHD using something without distractions and blue light I think is absolutely wonderful.
Hi Carlie, I was actually wondering about this. Is it HIPPAA compliant? I'm also a mental health clinician and I've considered the value of this for taking client notes, but does it count as secure? Thank you kindly!
Girl!!! That’s what I’m saying! I do a lot of journaling and therefore worry about privacy. I also have ADHD, and as a student with a great deal of essay writing, I prefer fewer tabs and fewer distractions. The intimacy of writing things down is such a treasure! I thought I was going to end up an old lady with 1,000 notebooks. Lol Mines comes today! Very excited!☺️💛
@@pinkinhot67 Hello May I ask, what specifically do you struggle with on a day to day basis as a person with ADHD (I have struggled through all my academic and social environments never knowing what was and is wrong with me. Until I read up on it!)
Hello May I ask, what specifically do you struggle with on a day to day basis as a person with ADHD (I have struggled through all my academic and social environments never knowing what was and is wrong with me. Until I read up on it!)
@@jujubean8870this is a difficult question to answer honestly.. going paperless (start digital note taking) can be eco-friendlier if the device is for example reused, recycled, taken care of and used for a good amount of time but both methods, be it digital or with paper, impact the environment in different ways. Going paperless is in fact better if one uses a lot of paper tho. I am an artist and use a lot of paper for drawings alone but I am also about to enroll in university and use my ipad several hours a day for taking notes for classes, so it really depends on how frequently one takes notes
@@nini-mh9ee as a stem major I use A TON of scratch paper for work too, so this seems good for notes and scratch. I have a whiteboard but sometimes it's more of a hassle if u just want to work things out normally on a desk, or at school. It's a bit too expensive for me, but I would love to have one.
Right. I make a lot of notes at work and also personally and I was making these random scribbles for work on my notebooks that I have collected from all over the world (I buy nice notebooks when I travel) without the supply of notebooks from work, I felt I was wasting my precious notebooks I bought for personal journaling. So I got this. Feels liberated
As a teacher (one who sketches, btw), I'd love all my students to have one of these. My kid has one and the remarkable so superior to carrying around a big, bulky binder and yet it doesn't go on the internet, which can be way too tempting when a student is working on a laptop. I also want my students to take notes by hand because the science shows it's much better for their comprehension and memory. And as for the limits for artists - who cares? Think of it as an electronic sketchbook. Artists don't carry around paintboxes and easels with them everywhere they go, they carry sketchbooks, so this is a perfect all-in-one student binder and sketch pad.
A question since your kid already has it - an actual book, we can flip backwards or forward fast to reach a certain page, but how about such a gadget. Will it be fast enough?
@@miketer21 You can set it to display all the pages in a notebook like thumbnails, so you can just click on a desired page without having to flip through them in full screen mode. Hope this helps.
Can you pick what size your writing is or are you stuck with the size the nib is? Like with how real mechanical pencils you can choose what mm of lead you want like 0.7 or 0.5
Speaking as a person who has received his. This device isn't used to sketch specifically, more geared towards note-taking, however a mangaka would have a field day with this thing. I cannot describe how amazingly useful this is in my studies, considering how this year has been all my classes are digital and I won't lie, my eyesight has been ruined to the point where I need new glasses. This device has been a crucial support for me as my eyes no longer suffer and I can write all of my work on it too. The price may be a little too high but personally speaking, no price is too high for preserving my eyesight along with offering me a new and unique way of doing my work.
Yeah, a great note-taking and reading device abs use mine daily. If reMarkable could somehow get the price down to $300 with the stylus included, wow, I think more students could afford them. I would have used a RM2 hours daily as a college or high school student...
I’m looking at this as a business executive. I can’t tell you how many notebook sketches and whiteboards I have to snap a photo and email to someone for idea sharing. I think and diagram best with a pen and paper but it doesn’t especially lend itself to easy sharing. Similarly, I review many presentations and giving feedback digitally is sooooo painful and printing out 40-60 pages so I can mark it up feels totally wasteful! If this device can let me markup PDF’s with my pen/stylus and send back, that would be amazing. Price is too high though, completely agree!
@@PeterHerget I'm a uni student, I really struggle to read my papers/textbooks from my pc screen so I've been tempted to buy this. How exactly does the epub and pdf stuff work? Is it just a case of downloading them to my phone, uploading them to the tablet via the app, make my notes, and send it back annotated? Hope you dont mind my asking!
@@Alexalini I purchased mine for work notes and... it has been wonderful! I prefer taking notes with a pen & paper for it is less distracting during meetings. The 4,096 levels of sensitivity are not a scam - the writing experience is amazing. I have tried three other devices since I purchased my reMarkable last November and they all fail in comparison. Even the fancy Apple iPad Pro with a plastic film over the screen does not give that paper-like experience that reMarkable was able to achieve. I have been using my e-ink tablet so often I am burning through one marker tip every three or four weeks. Honestly, so much fun as a writing tablet, yet, not the best reader for reMarkable has yet to partner with Amazon for their Kindle Library.
In addition to note-taking and sketching, it is also really amazing for people in academia who need to read a lot of papers in pdf format. The cloud storage makes it so convenient. Get it for your eyes if you have the budget.
I've had the gen1 Remarkable since launch, and it is still one my favorite things that I own! I draw on it every day, and have created thousands of pages of sketches and doodles and notes on it. Sure it's kind of a one trick pony, but it's the one trick that I use the most. Thanks for doing this review of the second gen! I haven't picked one up yet because I'm still happy with the first one.
I appreciate this review, particularly you being comfortable walking the line between praising how good it feels doing what it was built for and admitting that it was built for something other than what your audience wants.
You have to buy one of those clip-on old fashioned book lights if you wanna use it in anything dark though.. But I feel cool with my book light on it 😎
I have a Boox Nova 3 which is essentially an e-ink android tablet. Man I love e-ink! Battery life, less eye strain, use outdoor in sun. The only downside to the nova is the writing feel isn’t that good.
@@rokko_fable The reMarkable isn't paper yet, you still notice it's an approximation to where the pen hit...But it is extremely good. I love my reMarkable.
For someone who loves to DM D&D games this looks amazing. Great way to take my dm notes on and plan out various game aspects and even draw simple maps and such in the midst of my notes. I can also upload the character sheet PDF's to keep track of my characters and NPCs just as I would with paper and pencil character sheets. No more hauling multiple notebooks and worrying about damaging paper sheets. This will do exactly as I need it to do!
@@theafrotect I think its best for general class settings. You can save all your notes to the cloud and never run out of paper! Plus yeah kindle could buy it and then if you have kindle school books you would only need that device for class. So no more backpack ache
I WISH I had this in my school days. Carrying so many notebooks for many different lessons throughout the day, plus the heavy books, it irreversibly ruined my back. Having this one lightweight device for taking notes for all the lessons would've made my backpack so much lighter and take so much less space in my room! Not to mention I'd have been able to always look into the notes from previous years to refresh memory on some subjects whenever I wanted instead of keeping dozens of old notebooks in the attic. The only downside is that it is only black&white, if they added colorful highlighters, this would be THE PERFECT paper notebook alternative for school kids and college students.
It does have apps you can use/download. I love the simplicity of it as a reader and writer. Zero distractions are a god send in comparison to all the pop-ups, notifications, social media etc.. you get with many other tablets.
exactly. I don't like to have my heavy notebook/laptop in all scenarios around my days. I like to have a light and good readable device. The monitors / screens will fatigue my eyes. E-Ink is less exhausting to me - It is like a problem i have on my own... However I hate these Note-Its everywhere around my desk. I hope this device can handle it for me in a more sorted way. LOL
@@nostalgia9256 Again, why not? Top-notch digitizer? Check. Low-latency input? Check. Natural feel? Check. Software support is the main thing that's missing and it's a solvable issue. And even if there are any obscure limitations, V3 of the hardware can cover it.
I tried mine for a week and returned it -- to be upfront, I use Notability on my iPad with Apple Pencil and it is so much better for what I use it for -- but most importantly, I thought I might enjoy this for journaling and for my day planner -- well, boy was that wrong! The Day Planner I imported that I use was 215 pages of PDF -- it is impossible to bookmark any pages with the RM2 so the really really slow scrolling through the planner made it unusable. I LOVE the paper feel, but that was about it. It is pretty good for just keeping a diary -- but again, going back to find anything without being able to bookmark individual pages made it a chore and really hard to use. It would be great for someone who just keeps a lot of one or two page notes -- say keeping notes in a meeting --- but therein also lies the rub -- when I go to a meeting, I not only need to take notes, but I need to be able to access emails, look up contacts to share with folks in the meetings, and sometimes even message or look at media while meeting - none of which are possible here. If you get used to how fast, how well organized an iPad is, you will really have difficulty with the RM2 and how slow it is and how near impossible it is to flip back and forth easily and quickly in notebooks. Maybe someday that will be improved and zippier, and that day, I will get the next version so I can journal and keep my day planner -- for now, its a no go.
I can't believe this doesn't allow for a way for you to search through notes. So you cant put different 'notes' in various folders so you can quickly refer back to based on project/task/etc?
@@heatherwanninger there is a way. on the remarkable website there is a subscription you can pay for that allows you to link google drive or wherever you keep your files.
As a writer, I'm very eager for my order of this tablet to arrive. I enjoy working on writing projects by hand - every part that I don't absolutely have to do on computer. This sounds like it'll be perfect.
@@erikashealingspace I did buy it, and I love it. It's not the best for drawing, but for every other notebook use, it's great. I even found a way to put kindle ebooks on it.
@@shutterchick79 amazing! Im definitely going to get it. I don't mind the drawing, I just love the idea of having all my notebooks in one place. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Curious. I'm thinking of getting it so I can write scripts and short stories, and (attempts) at novels. I like to write first drafts in longhand, and wanted something that would digitize so I could then do subsequent drafts in WORD or Movie Magic. How is it for recognizing formatting? Like indentations for Character Names and the like? Thanks!
I think the product is perfect for me and anyone who wants to avoid further (blue) light pollution, if you just want to sketch all day and keep a handwritten diary, this seems like a solid choice.
People only buy these devices for the writing,that’s what I hate with these reveiws, you don’t know what people really want! Also, we want these because they have so little. No notifications, no other distractions! This is the perfect device for writing and editing.
WOW, you just really saved me. I noticed my marker has been slowly -- almost imperceptibly wearing. I had no idea there were more marker tips in the pen box and after watching your video at 2:00 I rummaged through my trash and found them. Thanks!!
I would love to see a specialised drawing tablet made for pro artists that could function just as well as the Remarkable does. You don't have glaring LEDs, you get the organic paper feeling, and you don't have to worry about other applications because it only runs its own drawing programme. However I would like to add a colour palette to it so that it's not all black and white. It would also be cool if you could import brushes into it, or import picture files to trace or edit. Anyways, I think it's very possible to bring out this kind of technology. I'm hoping it happens soon.
I think part of the reason of it's absurdly long battery life is they use a limited display technology (the bnw flickering you see in the vid). To incorporate colours would more than likely use more power, and may also cause more heat which may affect the user experience.
I'm an artist that still uses paper (thick card stock) and a chiseled 7b pencil for my line work. It's a lot of steps of scanning (especially when it comes to last minute revisions) but Brad's comment about his "V's smoothing into "U's" is like spell check for drawing 🥴. It seems like the last milestone is linework behavior.
Daaaammn, Although I’m getting more digital, getting more gadgets (bought an iPad, the sync with my MacBook is super convenient ) and looking into getting a stylus pen But tbh, I love my paper stuff!! I got 3 devices on which I can use an agenda, yet, I still go back to the paper agenda!!
From my own thoughts and from many comments preceeding mine, I feel like this is a great tablet for general text notes, quick illustrations (as proof of concpet perhaps), mind maps, and other graphically simple and quick needs. Not so much for more professional final draft illustrations or long term storage of more complex in depth information. While I wouldn't try to run a full blog off of it exclusively, I would rough draft blog posts, promotional ideas, monetization strategies etc. For myself I will probably save money to buy one and get a lot of use out of it. It actually low-key excites me! Thanks so much for this review! And happy New Year!
I like the simplicity of this product. It doesn’t try to do everything, it just does a few things and it does them well. Thank you for sharing the video! 😀
I have it and what is does for me is help me focus and be creative. The main reason is that it allows me to think while writing by hand and there are no distractions from apps etc.
Yeah, this world is so focus on features and features and features. Every product has to be backed with the ability to do everything and it can often lead to feeling overwhelmed or a lack of focus. If you buy and iPad instead of this to take notes and sketch theres always the possibility you get distracted, end up on social media or youtube, etc. This device helps pull that back and brings it to a singular focus. I can see how this could be extremely beneficial for those needing to focus on study or want to unwind with some sketching and remove themselves from other stimulus. I think anyone who suggests getting a tablet over this simply because a tablet does more sort of misses the point of it.
I like your honesty when talking about the product. Feels really genuine to me and gives me valuable information without having to buy the product just to check it out. Thanks for your content!
I'm an architect, and I sketch on this pad. I love it. My husband has also uploaded all his ebooks. The Kindle proprietary files are funky to convert to ebook.
Try the pc software epubor. It converts your Kindle files to DRM-free epub ebooks. It doesn't always maintain the pagination of the original Kindle book, but otherwise, it's a good program.
I'd think of it more like the Exec Kindle Pro, and on that it is amazing. Being able to really take notes on every document (like real notes, not those clumsy things in kindle), and to also have an infinite notebook, is priceless.
@@BorisTheShashlikKing so y don’t use Casio calculator? Half price and work as good as TX instruments or even better. American edu system makes students buy TX instruments.
@@Haskellerz but it's more expensive. I just use a regular Casio scientific calculator like $15 and it's easy to use compared to another expensive one. Then I only have to buy a graphing one when I'm taking some advanced math classes.
I've been very intrigued by this device for such a long time, and it really seems like an awesome product for studying, reading and note taking, but the price...
@@JabFam I did! I love it! But it isn’t a necessity. If your a student or a very avid writer I’d recommend it. It’s not super great for reading because of the lag with page turning. Copying and pasting can be a bit laggy, same with erasing. It’s not bad though, just a second or two at most. Great for note taking, if your handwriting is good the writing to text is a great tool. It can send emails but can’t receive, with no access to the internet and only in black, grey, and white. It’s great for distracted writers or students, but not really for readers or just occasional note takers (so expensive!).
I bought the remarkable 1 after the 2 came out. I really like it. I think e-ink should become more mainstream, not just for tablets, but for all computing. It's so much nicer to look at and work on a screen that isn't constantly blaring bright lights into your eyeballs.
But paper doesn't have the advantage of having everything in one place. This can potentially replace all of your files and ring binders. Therein, I think, lies the real strength of this device. It's the hybrid between traditional notetaking and modern efficiency - at least in theory. And as you said, it's lack of functionality otherwise might just be an upside. Let's you focus on what is actually important. I just wish it had some way to incorporate MS OneNote. This thing would be amazing. In any case, it's a device for a specific type of user. Scholars and students mainly, I imagine.
@Joshua Outerbridge the touchscreen is not good at all for note-taking. This is not for drawing only for notes. This has over 2 weeks of charge. No blue light like most electronics do so it doesn't cause eye strain or keep you awake. It's EXTREMELY thin and light. The best part to me personally is that there's no app store, notifications or anything like that. I have so much tech that can interrupt me trying to focus. This can not
I needed this in school!!! I studied software engineering, so it was largely on computer, but we still had many subject that you kind of need pen and notebook to do all the calculations and maybe take some notes. Overall, notes are just so much better to take with hand as you can freely "format" it on the paper, and equations are pretty much impossible to do at any reasonable speed. It would have been so easy to just use this instead of paper, and you could actually easily find the stuff you need before the tests.
As a student I LOVE my remarkable 2. I can always have all of my lecture and class notes in one place, without having to carry lots and lots of notebooks around.
Hyper Bol yes! one of the reasons why i was reluctant to get the remarkable 2 was because of the no colour thing (i usually like to make my notes super colourful lol). i can honesrly say i don’t really miss having coloured notes, but annotating lecture slides isn’t a problem because the colour is transferred back once you download your annotated notes into a pdf x
Hey! Ik this is an old comment but I'm looking at getting one for my last year of college and uni and I was wondering if the notes and documents are compatible with windows and word because that is what my college uses and if you would recommend it one student to another? xx
It's pretty pricey, but I think I'm going to get one. I don't sketch much art, but I make a lot of notes and designs in notebooks, it's sometimes difficult to find which note is on which notebook. I think it might be the device to give me that notebook feel with some modern day, digital benefits
Devices like this has been around for like 8 y now. But this has the Apple polish in the design and feeling. Unfortunately it do NOT have the Apple polish when it comes to the UI/UX SADLY
@Stefan Nemanja this is not about a book it’s about a note and drawing device. And yea in many ways it can’t beat it. But this device also have many advantages to a paper device. And it’s very close to mimicking paper experience
Terrifying thought. Love the smell of books and ink. Paper ages in a beautiful way. This sort of thinking brings the haunting ruination of the Sistine Chapel. Someone got the extremely foolish idea to clean the patina from the masterpiece. Many now believe that Michelangelo planned for the patina of burning candles and incense. A patina that can never be recreated thanks to the discontinuation of using candles. Tech is wonderful but I truly hope time proves you wrong.
@@cresshead they where flooding the markt with the kindle fire tablets until apple managed to get them out of sight. So amazon is looking for a new seller
MANY features are not accessible without an additional subscription (Connect Lite, Connect) e.g. Google Drive/Dropbox, unlimited cloud storage, handwriting conversion! Especially since the device has only 8gb internal memory (compared to competitors this is a joke), you are almost forced to order the subscription...This was for me the reason why I decided against the Remarkable 2. I need more than 8bg and then do not want to pay over 5€ per month for storage...
I think the other primary consideration is privacy. I should be able to do everything I want to do locally, or even on wifi if I want to. Sync with the main computer should be as easy as hooking it up and going into the files.
I've gotten to the point where I went full circle. I used to take notes on my iPad with the pencil but I wanted more and more for my iPad to feel like paper when I write. Recently I realized that I wanted it to feel like paper so much that I just went back to using paper notebooks for note taking lol. I just scan what I need to save if needed. No issues with pen latency, no issues with texture, no battery. I still use my iPad Pro for digital art of course but it's just interesting to me that we desire things to feel exactly like paper but we don't use paper.
Here's the real kicker. Are you still using it today, three years later? Only asking because I just found out of the existence of this product, and I'm thinking about purchasing.
Thank you for this super useful review! Just bought the R2 and need to understand how to use it. I have to admit, it was quite expensive (if you also want the pen & cover... which one kind of does)
No it is not a reader. the ability as a reader is not ideal. But it is great to use pdf's like a formular to fill it out, or as a note taker. Nothing more. For sketching as an artist not ideal, cause the exports of those graphics are frustrating. It is pretty good shown in other YT previews.
I thought I needed this for my new job but ended up buying a boogie board blackboard. Excellent for writing and throwing away notes all day that do not need to be saved. I must have saved a tree by now with all the paper I have saved using this device.
Thanks Brad! I definitely felt the same for my drawing review, ( I'm on the remarkable 1 ) but it's very similar. It's so amazing how close it feels like real pencil on paper, very little learning curve!
All my work happens on my laptop. But I live and die by my physical notebook for note taking. I go through one A5 notebook every three months. This tablet seriously looks intriguing.
You can export as a pdf, svg, and png. The result is not ideal. Hopefully, they will improve on this. Although the pen gives you 2048 levels of sensitivity on the device, the export seems to truncate this severely. It's good for basic sketching but, at present, it won't do for finished artwork.
@@fernandokurka6908 The pen has 4k+ levels of pressure sensitivity. There are a lot of hacks that can better assist with higher quality exporting, but honestly, as-is, it's perfectly fine for something as simple as storyboarding. No one is expecting finalized quality art in a storyboarding scenario.
@@beyondbased 4K levels of sensitivity just makes it worse. It's wasted. As for storyboards, if that is all you can imagine, well, good enough. Some of us can see the potential of a paper like device that can serve the artist. It's unfortunate that the makers of the device are blind to it.
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@@beyondbased Can I draw, save and export in vector?
After your review i bought one. I am an engeer and mostly use it to put quick idees to paper and i think it works great for that. further than that i work in cad so i don't need the full tablet for that as it wouldn't work anyway. Thanx for the review
Nice review. Thank you for the info. I'm struggling with the price tag (like other commenters here) as I'm just not sure how much I want it vs. how much I truly have a use for it.
I ordered this and it came in the mail today. As a writer and an administrative assistant--this sounds so perfect. It doesn't have any distractions and it is a digital notebook. It also said to integrate with cloud services
I'm a mathematician and so I do a lot of thinking and scratch work. I'm used to using pen and paper because it's more enjoyable than using a pencil, but I always end up with piles of useless paper that I've done my scratch work on. I also don't have to worry about eraser marks. The reMarkable 2 has done away with all that excess and the feel of this tablet is amazing. I also highly recommend the Marker Plus with the erasing feature. They did advertise this as a tool for thinking and that's really what it should be used for. Simply thinking.
I'll just drop my two cents here. I'm a graduate student in physics. I write hundreds of equations per week. I also have hundreds of papers to read, highlight, and annotate. The reMarkable was a total gamechanger. I absolutely love it. May people might think that the absence of apps is a drawback. For me it was a plus because it meant there's no crap distracting me from what I'm doing. So if you're in any mathematically-intense profession, I *highly* recommend trying these out!
I really want it for note-taking in college but the only black-and-white thing is a big turnoff, hope they add that because everything else sounds perfect!
I switched to the rM2 from my rM1 and I have to say I am quite pleased with it. They made it much more responsive and functional with updates than it was at launch.
I wonder if there's a search function that works with the handwriting to text software. Being able to search notes would be a huge advantage over paper!
I’m surprised this thing is actually pretty cool! Seems like the comments agree too. I thought it was dumb, but there’s a bunch of things I didn’t consider it could be useful for. Like going paperless without buying an $1000 iPad, note taking without distractions, lack of blue light in case your eyes are sensitive but you wanna go paperless. I can see this actually being a practical item, but definitely not for me. It’s just interesting to see other’s perspectives on this product
It is very expensive where i live. I can buy a spect ipad pro for the same price... I was very interested in this, but that price tag needs to come down first.
@@greybermatos6041 by that time I’ll be senile and dead. I have Hard time believing the tech inside this is thing that expensive. But anyway..hopefully you are right.. :)
I've got one that i use for work, and it's a good notepad replacement. Usually i'd go trough about 100-250 sheets a month for sketching, notes etc, and this makes it a lot easier, with the service that's provided you can also email selected pages, there is a handwriting to text (needs an internet connection) etc. Most important for me, i can sort pages, set up a sketch basis for engineering projects, duplicate it, have several layers on top with different ideas/ways to work things out etc. Also, per project notebooks, adding marks to PDF files, exporting those makes it a lot easier in communcation with clients. So, not for artists, not for engineering, but it saves a ton of paper because it's a very good sketchpad.
This is a great substitute for school notebooks to take notes. Not only are the pages "unlimited" but it's also ecologically friendly without the need of chopping down of trees since all of these "papers" are compressed into this one thin tablet. I can say I need this especially since I get easily distracted by using an iPad, I finally dont need to cramp 14 notebooks into one locker when it can all fit in one portable tablet. Though my only conplaints is that the price is very unreasonable for its laggy UI, I hope they improve on it or lower its price somehow.
Hate to be a killjoy, but any tablet is always going to be worse for the environment than paper. You'd struggle to find a paper company that doesn't at minimum have a 1:1 ratio of trees planted to trees cut down. That's simply because paper companies wouldn't exist for long if they didn't replant their product. Out of the 4 million trees cut down in the US every day, 1.7 million are replanted solely by paper and wood industry, and that's not counting the natural seedlings the lumber trees grow themselves. Meanwhile, computers (Which would include this tablet) require fairly rare metals for their components, and this remarkable 2 has a lithium battery. If you didn't already know, lithium extraction is incredibly bad for the environment, because you can't just get a chunk of it out of the ground and plug it in.
I got mine a few days ago and its excelent specially reading epubs and also pdfs and the writing experience while reading is amazing. I know kobo got the light etc but not having that “glass” to write is really like paper on remarkable
I'm an engineer wanting to launch a new company in 2 years, my job now has me traveling a lot, and whenever I'm waiting in an airport I just think of my products and ways of improving them, if it's taking notes or making basic sketches, I love this thing
I love to journal, I have tons of them and am running out of space to store them. The draw for me to this is to have multiple journals all in one place without the storage issues.
This is less for drawing and sketching and more for note-taking and reading. I bought the first version for college and it has been nothing short of life changing. No more textbooks, notebooks, or paper everywhere. Everything is organized and I can easily back it up to my computer. Imagine this not as an alternative to an iPad, but as an alternative to paper with all the benefits but none of the clutter.
Wouldn't it be better for you to get an iPad air 2019? It is more versatile and although it is a bit pricier because of having to buy the apple pencil separately, it may be better taking into account the amount of apps that are available for it and also considering that you can use other colors rather than grayscale and black.
As a writer who vastly prefers pen and paper I was kinda hoping for more about how the handwriting to text worked out. I got a rocket book a while back and while it's perfectly fine for $30 and works great as a reusable notebook the ocr transition has problems with my handwriting. I have quite a lot of things that got scanned and then only halfway transferred. If you have any suggestions on something like that I'd really appreciate it!
I wholeheartedly agree, the problem is that Photoshop IS the complete package, and I always found features missing in competing software, even though they function soo much better on the whole and don't take up 150% of my system resources (Clip Studio's handling of pen pressure is amazing compared to PS, however, it does lack many features that I do use in PS, so I can't do my work in it, at least not a full piece. This does vary from artist to artist though, I know a few people who use way less features than I do). Maybe it's just for convenience's sake but I'm gonna bite the bullet and keep using PS for a while before looking for alternatives again.
The lag and the noted lack of "real paper feel" you described show me that the tech still isn't there yet, but it's getting closer. I will continue using the real thing for now
I really love the idea of this - mobile drawing tablet with eye-friendly display and two weeks of battery life sounds like a dream) Also I wish there were cheaper options. Right now all of the devices like Remarkable are really expensive, and there are not a lot of options to choose from. I mean I understand that these things are niche market stuff, and I guess the technology itself is not cheap, so it's kinda worth the price, but still...
You have failed to notice e-ink's strongest feature. You can use this thing in broad daylight. No amount of bright light can outshine this screen because it's not a screen that relies on backlighting to be visible.
Great review! I have it down between this and the Supernote A5X. I need to cut down on screen time because of photosensitivity related to epilepsy. I am an artist and a graphic designer who wants to decrease backlit screen time and design and move toward more toward art making. I’m kind of intrigued by the idea of using it as a sketchbook to keep my drawing skills honed, blind contour practice, map out compositions, quick ideas etc., etc. Also running out of sketchbook space. I do love writing AND my kobo is about to die... so seemed like a good time to try!
@@Sonofsol It's priced high because it's an incredibly niche device. They wouldn't turn a profit at all otherwise. This isn't mass-produced. You won't find it at stores nationwide. They sell maybe a few thousand units a year, if that.
It’s just a note taking device for those who want to go paperless. Not very good for anything else, also can be used in the sun very easily unlike an iPad or a iPhone that get that dark effect that’s hard to read with. No blue light to aid use for longer periods of time without eye strain. It’s also a very niche device not for everyone like HealyHQ wrote. I’m a sophmore in highschool and writer with bad eyes so this is good for me, but the average person doesn’t need this device.
This device might be a good fit for me. I am a chemist and take a lot of notes . The problem is I have multiple notebooks and it’s hard for me to keep track of all of my notes and a computer interface doesn’t allow me to draw structures as quickly or freely as paper. This would allow me to do that AND keep my notes better organized. Thank you for your review!
I'm amazed that people are still reviewing this device for artists. Clearly, this isn't intended as a replacement to a Wacom tablet. The Remarkable is best suited for students and professionals that write a lot. Drawing is just a perk.
I would love one of these, I am a truck driver and take a heck of a lot of notes every day, Location numbers, trailer numbers, times, directions, numbers, gate codes, to-do lists etc and would be nice to have all my different notes organized and kept in one place, paper notebooks get dirty the pages start to tear and hard to keep stuff organized and easy to find unless you are using multiple notebooks for each specific subject. I could make use of the Remarkable 2 but not at that price point. I would be in for maybe $120 tops but not $300. And I do not know how well it might be able to hold up to daily use of being in and out of a carry bag, getting dirty and often cleaned, the slight bump here and there.
My wife just bought this for me for my birthday. I want to learn how to use it to it's max capability. This is the first video I came across. Hopefully there are more that show all of it's potential?
I found this really pricey for just taking notes. Samsung and iPad comes at similar price and you can take notes even in that along with phone features.not sure what's the hype!!!
College kid here. I take tons of notes and I like drawing as a side thing. I've never loved to draw with color because I like the quick joy or finishing a work quickly and starting a new one; rather than spending hours and hours on coloring only. This is perfect because I used to draw just on paper and taking pictures of my work looked off. There were pencil marks that couldn't be completely erased and accidental creases. I don't mind the delay for the undo button because I never really use it. Now I can technically say I draw traditional on a digital device. This tablet is mostly engineered for note-taking. It's great for that too. It writes like paper and I love seeing my writing actually get erased completely instead of seeing those excess marks from my pencil.
As a business executive, I just bought one, and for the pure organizational structure, it saves my life. No more sticky notes, missing notebooks, and running out of room. So happy with this thing!!
For me, not having a fully functioning, internet web browser, apps connected device is a real benefit. Eliminating distractions is worth a lot to me.
I am interested for the same reasons you mentioned - question - can you save them as a pdf and search the notes for content later?
@@swisstrader You could buy another ipad and pencil to take notes for a cheaper than their 399 tablet
@@deejay9730 get a paper screen protector lol
@@offgun6466 100% not the same thing.
As a Therapist I've been following the company for a while looking for better ways to take notes, brainstorm ideas for clients, books and classes. Thank you for the review, paper is my muse and I hate keeping up with notebooks worrying about privacy and as a mental health professional/with ADHD using something without distractions and blue light I think is absolutely wonderful.
Hi Carlie, I was actually wondering about this. Is it HIPPAA compliant? I'm also a mental health clinician and I've considered the value of this for taking client notes, but does it count as secure?
Thank you kindly!
Girl!!! That’s what I’m saying! I do a lot of journaling and therefore worry about privacy. I also have ADHD, and as a student with a great deal of essay writing, I prefer fewer tabs and fewer distractions. The intimacy of writing things down is such a treasure! I thought I was going to end up an old lady with 1,000 notebooks. Lol Mines comes today! Very excited!☺️💛
@@pinkinhot67 How have you liked it so far ?
@@pinkinhot67 Hello
May I ask, what specifically do you struggle with on a day to day basis as a person with ADHD (I have struggled through all my academic and social environments never knowing what was and is wrong with me. Until I read up on it!)
Hello
May I ask, what specifically do you struggle with on a day to day basis as a person with ADHD (I have struggled through all my academic and social environments never knowing what was and is wrong with me. Until I read up on it!)
I feel like this meant for people who want to go paperless. Its basically a never ending notebook.
What I bought it for !
Isn't using paper more eco-friendly, though?
@@jujubean8870this is a difficult question to answer honestly.. going paperless (start digital note taking) can be eco-friendlier if the device is for example reused, recycled, taken care of and used for a good amount of time but both methods, be it digital or with paper, impact the environment in different ways. Going paperless is in fact better if one uses a lot of paper tho. I am an artist and use a lot of paper for drawings alone but I am also about to enroll in university and use my ipad several hours a day for taking notes for classes, so it really depends on how frequently one takes notes
@@nini-mh9ee as a stem major I use A TON of scratch paper for work too, so this seems good for notes and scratch. I have a whiteboard but sometimes it's more of a hassle if u just want to work things out normally on a desk, or at school. It's a bit too expensive for me, but I would love to have one.
Right. I make a lot of notes at work and also personally and I was making these random scribbles for work on my notebooks that I have collected from all over the world (I buy nice notebooks when I travel) without the supply of notebooks from work, I felt I was wasting my precious notebooks I bought for personal journaling. So I got this. Feels liberated
As a teacher (one who sketches, btw), I'd love all my students to have one of these. My kid has one and the remarkable so superior to carrying around a big, bulky binder and yet it doesn't go on the internet, which can be way too tempting when a student is working on a laptop. I also want my students to take notes by hand because the science shows it's much better for their comprehension and memory.
And as for the limits for artists - who cares? Think of it as an electronic sketchbook. Artists don't carry around paintboxes and easels with them everywhere they go, they carry sketchbooks, so this is a perfect all-in-one student binder and sketch pad.
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A question since your kid already has it - an actual book, we can flip backwards or forward fast to reach a certain page, but how about such a gadget. Will it be fast enough?
@@miketer21 You can set it to display all the pages in a notebook like thumbnails, so you can just click on a desired page without having to flip through them in full screen mode.
Hope this helps.
@@missarchaeologist Appreciate your help. Thank you
Can you pick what size your writing is or are you stuck with the size the nib is? Like with how real mechanical pencils you can choose what mm of lead you want like 0.7 or 0.5
Speaking as a person who has received his. This device isn't used to sketch specifically, more geared towards note-taking, however a mangaka would have a field day with this thing. I cannot describe how amazingly useful this is in my studies, considering how this year has been all my classes are digital and I won't lie, my eyesight has been ruined to the point where I need new glasses. This device has been a crucial support for me as my eyes no longer suffer and I can write all of my work on it too. The price may be a little too high but personally speaking, no price is too high for preserving my eyesight along with offering me a new and unique way of doing my work.
dude exactly. Anything that gets me away from a bright screen and still lets me do my work in efficiently is a net positive .
Yeah, a great note-taking and reading device abs use mine daily. If reMarkable could somehow get the price down to $300 with the stylus included, wow, I think more students could afford them. I would have used a RM2 hours daily as a college or high school student...
I’m looking at this as a business executive. I can’t tell you how many notebook sketches and whiteboards I have to snap a photo and email to someone for idea sharing. I think and diagram best with a pen and paper but it doesn’t especially lend itself to easy sharing. Similarly, I review many presentations and giving feedback digitally is sooooo painful and printing out 40-60 pages so I can mark it up feels totally wasteful! If this device can let me markup PDF’s with my pen/stylus and send back, that would be amazing. Price is too high though, completely agree!
@@PeterHerget I'm a uni student, I really struggle to read my papers/textbooks from my pc screen so I've been tempted to buy this. How exactly does the epub and pdf stuff work? Is it just a case of downloading them to my phone, uploading them to the tablet via the app, make my notes, and send it back annotated?
Hope you dont mind my asking!
@@Alexalini I purchased mine for work notes and... it has been wonderful! I prefer taking notes with a pen & paper for it is less distracting during meetings. The 4,096 levels of sensitivity are not a scam - the writing experience is amazing. I have tried three other devices since I purchased my reMarkable last November and they all fail in comparison. Even the fancy Apple iPad Pro with a plastic film over the screen does not give that paper-like experience that reMarkable was able to achieve. I have been using my e-ink tablet so often I am burning through one marker tip every three or four weeks. Honestly, so much fun as a writing tablet, yet, not the best reader for reMarkable has yet to partner with Amazon for their Kindle Library.
In addition to note-taking and sketching, it is also really amazing for people in academia who need to read a lot of papers in pdf format. The cloud storage makes it so convenient. Get it for your eyes if you have the budget.
Does it support large pdf files without crashing?
I've had the gen1 Remarkable since launch, and it is still one my favorite things that I own! I draw on it every day, and have created thousands of pages of sketches and doodles and notes on it. Sure it's kind of a one trick pony, but it's the one trick that I use the most. Thanks for doing this review of the second gen! I haven't picked one up yet because I'm still happy with the first one.
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Do you still use it? Is it durable?
I appreciate this review, particularly you being comfortable walking the line between praising how good it feels doing what it was built for and admitting that it was built for something other than what your audience wants.
This kind of e ink is useable in full sun, that’s a big plus
You have to buy one of those clip-on old fashioned book lights if you wanna use it in anything dark though.. But I feel cool with my book light on it 😎
I have a Boox Nova 3 which is essentially an e-ink android tablet. Man I love e-ink! Battery life, less eye strain, use outdoor in sun.
The only downside to the nova is the writing feel isn’t that good.
@@rokko_fable The reMarkable isn't paper yet, you still notice it's an approximation to where the pen hit...But it is extremely good. I love my reMarkable.
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What about just turning on a desk lamp. No blue light from the device so that's a plus
If im at my desk, I use normal lighting. I meant if I'm in bed and the light is off 😂🙈@@kenwu7
For someone who loves to DM D&D games this looks amazing. Great way to take my dm notes on and plan out various game aspects and even draw simple maps and such in the midst of my notes. I can also upload the character sheet PDF's to keep track of my characters and NPCs just as I would with paper and pencil character sheets.
No more hauling multiple notebooks and worrying about damaging paper sheets. This will do exactly as I need it to do!
Character sheets and dungeon maps... exactly what I was thinking.
That would be an amazing student device especially for the young with drawing, ebooks, and pdf being its only use.
Your comment made me think that in the future, once devices like these get cheaper, schools might buy them in bulk for classrooms.
@@theafrotect I think its best for general class settings. You can save all your notes to the cloud and never run out of paper! Plus yeah kindle could buy it and then if you have kindle school books you would only need that device for class. So no more backpack ache
Too bad it costs an arm and a leg
Yes, if they could somehow bring the price WAY down it would actually be a popular purchase.
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I have a feeling they would love to do this
Bring the price down I mean
I doubt they have that outrageous amount unneccesarily
I WISH I had this in my school days. Carrying so many notebooks for many different lessons throughout the day, plus the heavy books, it irreversibly ruined my back. Having this one lightweight device for taking notes for all the lessons would've made my backpack so much lighter and take so much less space in my room! Not to mention I'd have been able to always look into the notes from previous years to refresh memory on some subjects whenever I wanted instead of keeping dozens of old notebooks in the attic. The only downside is that it is only black&white, if they added colorful highlighters, this would be THE PERFECT paper notebook alternative for school kids and college students.
Ok I want this
Happy to see you under this video!
yeah me too,...when i saw the tablet, I thought it might be About $60......but $400...god! it's too expensive!!!!
Lol same
Yeah, me neither.
Pleaaassseee do a review (if you can)
It does have apps you can use/download. I love the simplicity of it as a reader and writer. Zero distractions are a god send in comparison to all the pop-ups, notifications, social media etc.. you get with many other tablets.
I dont think this tablet should be used for drawing. It's more focused on note taking for people who can't look at a digital screen for a long time.
Why not? I mean it is not suitable for it... yet, but the potential is here.
Not really, it's like a kindle with note taking ability, if you are into reading books than that's the purpose of it, kindle reader plus note taking
its great for rich CEOs to sign documents on
exactly. I don't like to have my heavy notebook/laptop in all scenarios around my days. I like to have a light and good readable device. The monitors / screens will fatigue my eyes. E-Ink is less exhausting to me - It is like a problem i have on my own... However I hate these Note-Its everywhere around my desk. I hope this device can handle it for me in a more sorted way. LOL
@@nostalgia9256 Again, why not? Top-notch digitizer? Check. Low-latency input? Check. Natural feel? Check. Software support is the main thing that's missing and it's a solvable issue.
And even if there are any obscure limitations, V3 of the hardware can cover it.
As a recovering note hoarder, I need this! I love to write, note take, and journal...my how I wish I had this in pharmacy school!!!
maybe its me, but for some reason the more i keep looking at this, i feel like i can turn a page on it
They did some magic there
It is perfectly designed to LOOK like you're on the first page and can just flip it to get to the next
It's remarkable
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I tried mine for a week and returned it -- to be upfront, I use Notability on my iPad with Apple Pencil and it is so much better for what I use it for -- but most importantly, I thought I might enjoy this for journaling and for my day planner -- well, boy was that wrong! The Day Planner I imported that I use was 215 pages of PDF -- it is impossible to bookmark any pages with the RM2 so the really really slow scrolling through the planner made it unusable. I LOVE the paper feel, but that was about it. It is pretty good for just keeping a diary -- but again, going back to find anything without being able to bookmark individual pages made it a chore and really hard to use. It would be great for someone who just keeps a lot of one or two page notes -- say keeping notes in a meeting --- but therein also lies the rub -- when I go to a meeting, I not only need to take notes, but I need to be able to access emails, look up contacts to share with folks in the meetings, and sometimes even message or look at media while meeting - none of which are possible here. If you get used to how fast, how well organized an iPad is, you will really have difficulty with the RM2 and how slow it is and how near impossible it is to flip back and forth easily and quickly in notebooks. Maybe someday that will be improved and zippier, and that day, I will get the next version so I can journal and keep my day planner -- for now, its a no go.
I can't believe this doesn't allow for a way for you to search through notes. So you cant put different 'notes' in various folders so you can quickly refer back to based on project/task/etc?
@@heatherwanninger there is a way. on the remarkable website there is a subscription you can pay for that allows you to link google drive or wherever you keep your files.
Finally you had a look at it! I think it's so interesting. Could see a looooot of students benefitting from this once the price comes down
May I know what it’s name is
As a writer, I'm very eager for my order of this tablet to arrive. I enjoy working on writing projects by hand - every part that I don't absolutely have to do on computer. This sounds like it'll be perfect.
Hey! Did you get it? I think I'm going to buy one as well and I looove to write. I'd love to know your opinion. 😁
@@erikashealingspace I did buy it, and I love it. It's not the best for drawing, but for every other notebook use, it's great. I even found a way to put kindle ebooks on it.
@@shutterchick79 amazing! Im definitely going to get it. I don't mind the drawing, I just love the idea of having all my notebooks in one place. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Curious. I'm thinking of getting it so I can write scripts and short stories, and (attempts) at novels. I like to write first drafts in longhand, and wanted something that would digitize so I could then do subsequent drafts in WORD or Movie Magic. How is it for recognizing formatting? Like indentations for Character Names and the like? Thanks!
@@shutterchick79 what way did you go about putting the e books on there?
I think the product is perfect for me and anyone who wants to avoid further (blue) light pollution, if you just want to sketch all day and keep a handwritten diary, this seems like a solid choice.
People only buy these devices for the writing,that’s what I hate with these reveiws, you don’t know what people really want! Also, we want these because they have so little. No notifications, no other distractions! This is the perfect device for writing and editing.
WOW, you just really saved me. I noticed my marker has been slowly -- almost imperceptibly wearing. I had no idea there were more marker tips in the pen box and after watching your video at 2:00 I rummaged through my trash and found them. Thanks!!
I would love to see a specialised drawing tablet made for pro artists that could function just as well as the Remarkable does. You don't have glaring LEDs, you get the organic paper feeling, and you don't have to worry about other applications because it only runs its own drawing programme. However I would like to add a colour palette to it so that it's not all black and white. It would also be cool if you could import brushes into it, or import picture files to trace or edit. Anyways, I think it's very possible to bring out this kind of technology. I'm hoping it happens soon.
I think part of the reason of it's absurdly long battery life is they use a limited display technology (the bnw flickering you see in the vid). To incorporate colours would more than likely use more power, and may also cause more heat which may affect the user experience.
Perfect for pencil artists??
It's been so long since I've written or drawn on paper, I'm not sure I'd recognize my own handwriting anymore.
I'm an artist that still uses paper (thick card stock) and a chiseled 7b pencil for my line work. It's a lot of steps of scanning (especially when it comes to last minute revisions) but Brad's comment about his "V's smoothing into "U's" is like spell check for drawing 🥴. It seems like the last milestone is linework behavior.
My handwriting style changes everyday depends on my mood 😂
@@yohaneschristianp Just call it freestyle!
Wooooo wo wo ...... I never thought that it would happen to anyone...ಠ∀ಠ
Daaaammn,
Although I’m getting more digital, getting more gadgets (bought an iPad, the sync with my MacBook is super convenient ) and looking into getting a stylus pen
But tbh, I love my paper stuff!! I got 3 devices on which I can use an agenda, yet, I still go back to the paper agenda!!
From my own thoughts and from many comments preceeding mine, I feel like this is a great tablet for general text notes, quick illustrations (as proof of concpet perhaps), mind maps, and other graphically simple and quick needs. Not so much for more professional final draft illustrations or long term storage of more complex in depth information.
While I wouldn't try to run a full blog off of it exclusively, I would rough draft blog posts, promotional ideas, monetization strategies etc.
For myself I will probably save money to buy one and get a lot of use out of it. It actually low-key excites me!
Thanks so much for this review! And happy New Year!
I like the simplicity of this product. It doesn’t try to do everything, it just does a few things and it does them well. Thank you for sharing the video! 😀
I have it and what is does for me is help me focus and be creative. The main reason is that it allows me to think while writing by hand and there are no distractions from apps etc.
Yeah, this world is so focus on features and features and features. Every product has to be backed with the ability to do everything and it can often lead to feeling overwhelmed or a lack of focus. If you buy and iPad instead of this to take notes and sketch theres always the possibility you get distracted, end up on social media or youtube, etc. This device helps pull that back and brings it to a singular focus. I can see how this could be extremely beneficial for those needing to focus on study or want to unwind with some sketching and remove themselves from other stimulus. I think anyone who suggests getting a tablet over this simply because a tablet does more sort of misses the point of it.
The ability to hold 100 000 pages is what sold the product to me. Great video.
I honestly really want one, but I can't get past the price tag
Invest in yourself. Worth the money... And if you're self employed; it's a tax write-off!
@@benspies9580 exactly, I see as an investment, I bought a kindle for reading and for me it was worth
Hard pass
@@benspies9580 Wow, now I'm gonna say this to myself anytime I wanna buy something.
@@benspies9580 £400? For this? Even the Samsung galaxy tab s6 mini is cheaper and better than this garbage.
I ordered one for myself. Very excited and waiting patiently to get my hands on it.
You don’t sign “Brad Cowboy”? My reality is shattered.
Ikr?!
😂 😂 😂
faccs
i thought he signs with "yee haw"
From now on, its not too late. Heal the collective fracture.
I like your honesty when talking about the product. Feels really genuine to me and gives me valuable information without having to buy the product just to check it out. Thanks for your content!
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I'm an architect, and I sketch on this pad. I love it. My husband has also uploaded all his ebooks. The Kindle proprietary files are funky to convert to ebook.
That last part, yeah
I've had a lifelong battle of juggling my Kindle and mobile ereader library
Funky is an understatement
Try the pc software epubor. It converts your Kindle files to DRM-free epub ebooks. It doesn't always maintain the pagination of the original Kindle book, but otherwise, it's a good program.
@@enantiodromia Apparently the latest update improves the text layout of ebooks so it may look better now.
I'd think of it more like the Exec Kindle Pro, and on that it is amazing. Being able to really take notes on every document (like real notes, not those clumsy things in kindle), and to also have an infinite notebook, is priceless.
Finally, a product not so powerful but so expensive that it justifies iPad Pro's price, or even Wacom's.
so the calculators that my teachers forces me to buy?
@@BorisTheShashlikKing so y don’t use Casio calculator? Half price and work as good as TX instruments or even better. American edu system makes students buy TX instruments.
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hp prime g2 is wayyyy better with touch screen and faster processor than any other TI and CASIO calculator
@@Haskellerz but it's more expensive. I just use a regular Casio scientific calculator like $15 and it's easy to use compared to another expensive one. Then I only have to buy a graphing one when I'm taking some advanced math classes.
Yeah, why would anyone use a scalpel when they could use a shotgun, or a nuke?
I've been very intrigued by this device for such a long time, and it really seems like an awesome product for studying, reading and note taking, but the price...
I’m getting my Remarkable Monday and I’m SO EXCITED!
Sooooooo ??? Did you get it ?? :D SO EXCITED for mine too !!
@@JabFam I did! I love it!
But it isn’t a necessity. If your a student or a very avid writer I’d recommend it. It’s not super great for reading because of the lag with page turning. Copying and pasting can be a bit laggy, same with erasing. It’s not bad though, just a second or two at most. Great for note taking, if your handwriting is good the writing to text is a great tool. It can send emails but can’t receive, with no access to the internet and only in black, grey, and white. It’s great for distracted writers or students, but not really for readers or just occasional note takers (so expensive!).
I bought the remarkable 1 after the 2 came out. I really like it. I think e-ink should become more mainstream, not just for tablets, but for all computing. It's so much nicer to look at and work on a screen that isn't constantly blaring bright lights into your eyeballs.
The only real benefit to me is that it forces me off of youtube and onto my task at hand...
But I guess paper does the same thing.
But paper doesn't have the advantage of having everything in one place.
This can potentially replace all of your files and ring binders. Therein, I think, lies the real strength of this device. It's the hybrid between traditional notetaking and modern efficiency - at least in theory.
And as you said, it's lack of functionality otherwise might just be an upside. Let's you focus on what is actually important.
I just wish it had some way to incorporate MS OneNote. This thing would be amazing.
In any case, it's a device for a specific type of user. Scholars and students mainly, I imagine.
Paper doest save trees..and increases the climate temperature and you suffer
@Joshua Outerbridge the touchscreen is not good at all for note-taking. This is not for drawing only for notes. This has over 2 weeks of charge. No blue light like most electronics do so it doesn't cause eye strain or keep you awake. It's EXTREMELY thin and light. The best part to me personally is that there's no app store, notifications or anything like that. I have so much tech that can interrupt me trying to focus. This can not
I needed this in school!!! I studied software engineering, so it was largely on computer, but we still had many subject that you kind of need pen and notebook to do all the calculations and maybe take some notes. Overall, notes are just so much better to take with hand as you can freely "format" it on the paper, and equations are pretty much impossible to do at any reasonable speed. It would have been so easy to just use this instead of paper, and you could actually easily find the stuff you need before the tests.
As a student I LOVE my remarkable 2. I can always have all of my lecture and class notes in one place, without having to carry lots and lots of notebooks around.
it's black and white, if you open a lecture pdf but it's coloured. does it help you?
can u tell me about it's palm rejection ......as we keep palm on paper ....can we do it on this also ?.....please reply
SUMEET KUMAR yes!! my palm is always on the paper and the remarkable 2 is really good at just taking in what i’m writing x
Hyper Bol yes! one of the reasons why i was reluctant to get the remarkable 2 was because of the no colour thing (i usually like to make my notes super colourful lol). i can honesrly say i don’t really miss having coloured notes, but annotating lecture slides isn’t a problem because the colour is transferred back once you download your annotated notes into a pdf x
Hey! Ik this is an old comment but I'm looking at getting one for my last year of college and uni and I was wondering if the notes and documents are compatible with windows and word because that is what my college uses and if you would recommend it one student to another? xx
i got an ad for it at the beginning of the video and i didn't even realise the video hadn't started yet
It's pretty pricey, but I think I'm going to get one. I don't sketch much art, but I make a lot of notes and designs in notebooks, it's sometimes difficult to find which note is on which notebook. I think it might be the device to give me that notebook feel with some modern day, digital benefits
I want this for school so…this is #1 on my list of supplies for this semester!!
This is ahead of its time. Imagine one day when the world has no paper.
Yess I can see schools providing this for students
I don't think paper would ever end from the world
Devices like this has been around for like 8 y now. But this has the Apple polish in the design and feeling.
Unfortunately it do NOT have the Apple polish when it comes to the UI/UX SADLY
@Stefan Nemanja this is not about a book it’s about a note and drawing device. And yea in many ways it can’t beat it. But this device also have many advantages to a paper device. And it’s very close to mimicking paper experience
Terrifying thought. Love the smell of books and ink. Paper ages in a beautiful way. This sort of thinking brings the haunting ruination of the Sistine Chapel. Someone got the extremely foolish idea to clean the patina from the masterpiece. Many now believe that Michelangelo planned for the patina of burning candles and incense. A patina that can never be recreated thanks to the discontinuation of using candles.
Tech is wonderful but I truly hope time proves you wrong.
Just bought one. I don’t want to lose THE important notes for my client meeting anymore. 2nd day, so far loving it.
Can’t wait to see Amazon’s Kindle take on this one
yeh if amazon made one for £199....
Yeah combination of KINDLE and this can totally replace traditional medium
@@cresshead they where flooding the markt with the kindle fire tablets until apple managed to get them out of sight. So amazon is looking for a new seller
more like amazon pirates
More like can’t wait until Amazon steals/buys this idea
MANY features are not accessible without an additional subscription (Connect Lite, Connect) e.g. Google Drive/Dropbox, unlimited cloud storage, handwriting conversion! Especially since the device has only 8gb internal memory (compared to competitors this is a joke), you are almost forced to order the subscription...This was for me the reason why I decided against the Remarkable 2. I need more than 8bg and then do not want to pay over 5€ per month for storage...
I think the other primary consideration is privacy. I should be able to do everything I want to do locally, or even on wifi if I want to. Sync with the main computer should be as easy as hooking it up and going into the files.
I've gotten to the point where I went full circle. I used to take notes on my iPad with the pencil but I wanted more and more for my iPad to feel like paper when I write. Recently I realized that I wanted it to feel like paper so much that I just went back to using paper notebooks for note taking lol. I just scan what I need to save if needed. No issues with pen latency, no issues with texture, no battery. I still use my iPad Pro for digital art of course but it's just interesting to me that we desire things to feel exactly like paper but we don't use paper.
Here's the real kicker. Are you still using it today, three years later? Only asking because I just found out of the existence of this product, and I'm thinking about purchasing.
I’ve had it for a couple years and I just now picked it back up. I like it tho
Yes
Maybe not as often cause im taking a gap year and have less projects. But I am journaling and jotting down idea
This is the earliest I can get to Brad's vid lmao-
Thank you for this super useful review! Just bought the R2 and need to understand how to use it. I have to admit, it was quite expensive (if you also want the pen & cover... which one kind of does)
Oooh awesome, been waiting on this since ur tweet, technology looks like an e reader with a pen, loving slim notebook style of it
Hi Carri! Love your videos!
@@anisha1257 aw hello ⁽⁽ଘ( ˊᵕˋ )ଓ⁾⁾ tysm
@@Carritube ^ ^
No it is not a reader. the ability as a reader is not ideal. But it is great to use pdf's like a formular to fill it out, or as a note taker. Nothing more. For sketching as an artist not ideal, cause the exports of those graphics are frustrating. It is pretty good shown in other YT previews.
I thought I needed this for my new job but ended up buying a boogie board blackboard. Excellent for writing and throwing away notes all day that do not need to be saved.
I must have saved a tree by now with all the paper I have saved using this device.
Thanks Brad! I definitely felt the same for my drawing review, ( I'm on the remarkable 1 ) but it's very similar. It's so amazing how close it feels like real pencil on paper, very little learning curve!
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All my work happens on my laptop. But I live and die by my physical notebook for note taking. I go through one A5 notebook every three months. This tablet seriously looks intriguing.
I was wondering how maybe the drawings could be ported to other drawing/painting programs/platforms. Maybe there's a workflow for storyboard artists.
You can export as a pdf, svg, and png. The result is not ideal. Hopefully, they will improve on this. Although the pen gives you 2048 levels of sensitivity on the device, the export seems to truncate this severely. It's good for basic sketching but, at present, it won't do for finished artwork.
@@fernandokurka6908 The pen has 4k+ levels of pressure sensitivity. There are a lot of hacks that can better assist with higher quality exporting, but honestly, as-is, it's perfectly fine for something as simple as storyboarding. No one is expecting finalized quality art in a storyboarding scenario.
@@beyondbased 4K levels of sensitivity just makes it worse. It's wasted. As for storyboards, if that is all you can imagine, well, good enough. Some of us can see the potential of a paper like device that can serve the artist. It's unfortunate that the makers of the device are blind to it.
@@beyondbased Can I draw, save and export in vector?
@ A comment above said you can save in SVG, so it sounds like it.
After your review i bought one. I am an engeer and mostly use it to put quick idees to paper and i think it works great for that. further than that i work in cad so i don't need the full tablet for that as it wouldn't work anyway. Thanx for the review
Nice review. Thank you for the info. I'm struggling with the price tag (like other commenters here) as I'm just not sure how much I want it vs. how much I truly have a use for it.
I ordered this and it came in the mail today. As a writer and an administrative assistant--this sounds so perfect. It doesn't have any distractions and it is a digital notebook. It also said to integrate with cloud services
My biggest issue is the "your notes are ours and dont dare unsubscrubsribe from us or else" mentality.
I'm a mathematician and so I do a lot of thinking and scratch work. I'm used to using pen and paper because it's more enjoyable than using a pencil, but I always end up with piles of useless paper that I've done my scratch work on. I also don't have to worry about eraser marks. The reMarkable 2 has done away with all that excess and the feel of this tablet is amazing. I also highly recommend the Marker Plus with the erasing feature. They did advertise this as a tool for thinking and that's really what it should be used for. Simply thinking.
I'll just drop my two cents here.
I'm a graduate student in physics. I write hundreds of equations per week.
I also have hundreds of papers to read, highlight, and annotate.
The reMarkable was a total gamechanger. I absolutely love it.
May people might think that the absence of apps is a drawback.
For me it was a plus because it meant there's no crap distracting me from what I'm doing.
So if you're in any mathematically-intense profession, I *highly* recommend trying these out!
I really want it for note-taking in college but the only black-and-white thing is a big turnoff, hope they add that because everything else sounds perfect!
I switched to the rM2 from my rM1 and I have to say I am quite pleased with it. They made it much more responsive and functional with updates than it was at launch.
Can I read a Hindi epub file in remarkable 2 ??
@@connectwithvs No clue, haven't tried.
Can you import pdfs easily and edit them on this? Example
1. Import pdf via g drive
2. Open pdf
3. Edit and re upload
Thanks!
I wonder if there's a search function that works with the handwriting to text software.
Being able to search notes would be a huge advantage over paper!
I’m surprised this thing is actually pretty cool! Seems like the comments agree too. I thought it was dumb, but there’s a bunch of things I didn’t consider it could be useful for. Like going paperless without buying an $1000 iPad, note taking without distractions, lack of blue light in case your eyes are sensitive but you wanna go paperless. I can see this actually being a practical item, but definitely not for me. It’s just interesting to see other’s perspectives on this product
FYI.. the whole ‘blue light’ ill effects thing is being reviewed as a myth…
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37593770/
It is very expensive where i live. I can buy a spect ipad pro for the same price... I was very interested in this, but that price tag needs to come down first.
With the time it will
@@greybermatos6041 by that time I’ll be senile and dead. I have Hard time believing the tech inside this is thing that expensive. But anyway..hopefully you are right.. :)
I've got one that i use for work, and it's a good notepad replacement. Usually i'd go trough about 100-250 sheets a month for sketching, notes etc, and this makes it a lot easier, with the service that's provided you can also email selected pages, there is a handwriting to text (needs an internet connection) etc.
Most important for me, i can sort pages, set up a sketch basis for engineering projects, duplicate it, have several layers on top with different ideas/ways to work things out etc. Also, per project notebooks, adding marks to PDF files, exporting those makes it a lot easier in communcation with clients.
So, not for artists, not for engineering, but it saves a ton of paper because it's a very good sketchpad.
I would love this for note-taking! It looks suppeeeer cool and your review was great!
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This is a great substitute for school notebooks to take notes. Not only are the pages "unlimited" but it's also ecologically friendly without the need of chopping down of trees since all of these "papers" are compressed into this one thin tablet.
I can say I need this especially since I get easily distracted by using an iPad, I finally dont need to cramp 14 notebooks into one locker when it can all fit in one portable tablet. Though my only conplaints is that the price is very unreasonable for its laggy UI, I hope they improve on it or lower its price somehow.
Hate to be a killjoy, but any tablet is always going to be worse for the environment than paper. You'd struggle to find a paper company that doesn't at minimum have a 1:1 ratio of trees planted to trees cut down. That's simply because paper companies wouldn't exist for long if they didn't replant their product. Out of the 4 million trees cut down in the US every day, 1.7 million are replanted solely by paper and wood industry, and that's not counting the natural seedlings the lumber trees grow themselves.
Meanwhile, computers (Which would include this tablet) require fairly rare metals for their components, and this remarkable 2 has a lithium battery. If you didn't already know, lithium extraction is incredibly bad for the environment, because you can't just get a chunk of it out of the ground and plug it in.
i love Brad cause he always puts out the price in the beginning of the video
I got mine a few days ago and its excelent specially reading epubs and also pdfs and the writing experience while reading is amazing. I know kobo got the light etc but not having that “glass” to write is really like paper on remarkable
I'm an engineer wanting to launch a new company in 2 years, my job now has me traveling a lot, and whenever I'm waiting in an airport I just think of my products and ways of improving them, if it's taking notes or making basic sketches, I love this thing
I love to journal, I have tons of them and am running out of space to store them. The draw for me to this is to have multiple journals all in one place without the storage issues.
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Great review! I use my iPad, but I have friends who love this product for note taking.
This is less for drawing and sketching and more for note-taking and reading. I bought the first version for college and it has been nothing short of life changing. No more textbooks, notebooks, or paper everywhere. Everything is organized and I can easily back it up to my computer. Imagine this not as an alternative to an iPad, but as an alternative to paper with all the benefits but none of the clutter.
Hey, can you drawing on pdf files? By using kindle
As an author I’m really excited to get one it’ll be great for organizing continuity and rough drafts
I'm an architecture student who has to do 30 sketches every 3 days. This looks like heaven to me
Wouldn't it be better for you to get an iPad air 2019? It is more versatile and although it is a bit pricier because of having to buy the apple pencil separately, it may be better taking into account the amount of apps that are available for it and also considering that you can use other colors rather than grayscale and black.
@@immsea I agree! You would still need colour for your sketches
As a mathematician, I can see the potential of it for this field 🤩 thanks for the awesome review!
I'd really like to see some built in handwriting to latex converter...
As a writer who vastly prefers pen and paper I was kinda hoping for more about how the handwriting to text worked out. I got a rocket book a while back and while it's perfectly fine for $30 and works great as a reusable notebook the ocr transition has problems with my handwriting. I have quite a lot of things that got scanned and then only halfway transferred. If you have any suggestions on something like that I'd really appreciate it!
I'm obsessed with my Remarkable!!
You should do reviews of Photoshop or Illustrator alternatives because Adobe is NOT what they used to be anymore.
You mean that they are better than ever? Cause that is kinda the only thing that changed both of them improved
I wholeheartedly agree, the problem is that Photoshop IS the complete package, and I always found features missing in competing software, even though they function soo much better on the whole and don't take up 150% of my system resources (Clip Studio's handling of pen pressure is amazing compared to PS, however, it does lack many features that I do use in PS, so I can't do my work in it, at least not a full piece. This does vary from artist to artist though, I know a few people who use way less features than I do). Maybe it's just for convenience's sake but I'm gonna bite the bullet and keep using PS for a while before looking for alternatives again.
Adobe fanboys will attack you for talking like that beware!
@@mwinner101 Bring on those basement dwelling Adobe fanboys!
Whatch his videos, he has reviewed a bunch, paint storm studio, the affinity package, Krita, and pretty much most the iPad and android art apps.
The lag and the noted lack of "real paper feel" you described show me that the tech still isn't there yet, but it's getting closer. I will continue using the real thing for now
I really love the idea of this - mobile drawing tablet with eye-friendly display and two weeks of battery life sounds like a dream) Also I wish there were cheaper options. Right now all of the devices like Remarkable are really expensive, and there are not a lot of options to choose from. I mean I understand that these things are niche market stuff, and I guess the technology itself is not cheap, so it's kinda worth the price, but still...
You have failed to notice e-ink's strongest feature.
You can use this thing in broad daylight. No amount of bright light can outshine this screen because it's not a screen that relies on backlighting to be visible.
Great review! I have it down between this and the Supernote A5X. I need to cut down on screen time because of photosensitivity related to epilepsy. I am an artist and a graphic designer who wants to decrease backlit screen time and design and move toward more toward art making.
I’m kind of intrigued by the idea of using it as a sketchbook to keep my drawing skills honed, blind contour practice, map out compositions, quick ideas etc., etc.
Also running out of sketchbook space. I do love writing AND my kobo is about to die... so seemed like a good time to try!
Which did you buy, and what did you think?
A never ending notebook. I want this!!! As an author this would be great for outlining my stories.
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Can't believe I'm saying this, but I can't warrant buying this when an ipad is the same price
Yes... where tf do they get off pricing it that high? There’s no way the cost of the components in this product justify the price.
@@Sonofsol It's priced high because it's an incredibly niche device. They wouldn't turn a profit at all otherwise. This isn't mass-produced. You won't find it at stores nationwide. They sell maybe a few thousand units a year, if that.
Agreed I mean if I needed a paper experience I’d grab some paper and a pen lol. I want to play angry birds yo
It’s just a note taking device for those who want to go paperless. Not very good for anything else, also can be used in the sun very easily unlike an iPad or a iPhone that get that dark effect that’s hard to read with. No blue light to aid use for longer periods of time without eye strain. It’s also a very niche device not for everyone like HealyHQ wrote. I’m a sophmore in highschool and writer with bad eyes so this is good for me, but the average person doesn’t need this device.
@@HealyHQ You're absolutely right, but to add to the explanation: R&D.
This device might be a good fit for me. I am a chemist and take a lot of notes . The problem is I have multiple notebooks and it’s hard for me to keep track of all of my notes and a computer interface doesn’t allow me to draw structures as quickly or freely as paper. This would allow me to do that AND keep my notes better organized. Thank you for your review!
I'm amazed that people are still reviewing this device for artists. Clearly, this isn't intended as a replacement to a Wacom tablet. The Remarkable is best suited for students and professionals that write a lot. Drawing is just a perk.
I would love one of these, I am a truck driver and take a heck of a lot of notes every day, Location numbers, trailer numbers, times, directions, numbers, gate codes, to-do lists etc and would be nice to have all my different notes organized and kept in one place, paper notebooks get dirty the pages start to tear and hard to keep stuff organized and easy to find unless you are using multiple notebooks for each specific subject. I could make use of the Remarkable 2 but not at that price point. I would be in for maybe $120 tops but not $300. And I do not know how well it might be able to hold up to daily use of being in and out of a carry bag, getting dirty and often cleaned, the slight bump here and there.
depending on how long this can last it seems like good value for something that could be handed down for years
My wife just bought this for me for my birthday. I want to learn how to use it to it's max capability. This is the first video I came across. Hopefully there are more that show all of it's potential?
$400?!?!?!? I went to check the price and HOLY ****
I found this really pricey for just taking notes. Samsung and iPad comes at similar price and you can take notes even in that along with phone features.not sure what's the hype!!!
College kid here. I take tons of notes and I like drawing as a side thing. I've never loved to draw with color because I like the quick joy or finishing a work quickly and starting a new one; rather than spending hours and hours on coloring only. This is perfect because I used to draw just on paper and taking pictures of my work looked off. There were pencil marks that couldn't be completely erased and accidental creases. I don't mind the delay for the undo button because I never really use it. Now I can technically say I draw traditional on a digital device.
This tablet is mostly engineered for note-taking. It's great for that too. It writes like paper and I love seeing my writing actually get erased completely instead of seeing those excess marks from my pencil.
First I thought it's a paper when I looked at the thumbnail!
Dude the way you write letters makes go "that's how you write!?" Lol! Such an artist. Doesn't matter how as long as yiu get the shape down.
As an architect with multiple projects at once, this is perfect for me. I hate carrying around multiple yellow notepads.
I love my remarkable 2