Remarkable 2 Review
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I was genuinely surprised by how good it felt to draw on the Remarkable 2. I didn't expect much from the Eink display compared to drawing on many of the tablets I'm used to using but this is genuinely great experience but it might still not be right for you.
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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.
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 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!)
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.
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
😅
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.
I've had an eye on this product for stoyboarding film ideas? Anyone have thoughts on how this might do with that?
My favorite part about storyboard is the natural raw experience of throwing your ideas onto "paper" before they go into further stages of production, so I'm curious if this is the perfect item for me, or if it's something I'd buy because of the novelty of it, then resort back to note taking on an iPad or phone after a couple months.
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)
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_hates_japan 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.
@@KrisAdamsTV
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
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?
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.
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?
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.
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!
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.
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.
@@VibrGames
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 ordered one for myself. Very excited and waiting patiently to get my hands on 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!
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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!!
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 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.
Extremely helpful and some great tips and tricks I was not aware of from prior investigations. I have had my eye on one of these for months now but have been hesitant to pull the trigger. I did purchase one last night and will arrive in the coming days. I am very excited to give it try... Thank you for this great video...
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
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.
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)
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.
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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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??
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.
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
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?
@@ameyawadekar9901 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?
Great review! I use my iPad, but I have friends who love this product for note taking.
I’ve been really eyeing this up as it would be the perfect tool for all notes and sharing docs.
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 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'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.
Honestly this is the best review video of a product I ever watched. Thank you
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 would love this for note-taking! It looks suppeeeer cool and your review was great!
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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!!!
Man, I absolutely love this review! Thanks!
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.
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 want this for school so…this is #1 on my list of supplies for this semester!!
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
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 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.
Thanks for the review! I’m going to apply for Law School next year and want this for that! Definitely worried about the price but seems worth it!
Wonderfully comprehensive and honest my dude! Thanks!
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.
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...
Thanks for the review. Helps a lot to decide whether this is worth buying or not for the reasons I may need it.
Excellent review. I'm getting one. I love the text converter so much !
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
Hey Brad love your vids, would you do a Kamvas 16 (2021) Vs XP pen innovator 16? Would love to see a comparison by you.
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 liked this review, explained everything and didn't feel overdone. Good job mate!
Got one - love it! Wont save money, but I will save paper while doodling and taking small notes.
This is the earliest I can get to Brad's vid lmao-
Thank you for your perspective. Going through possibly two reams of paper per week and needing to scan for folder placement / recovery. having two colleagues use one and watching your review;
I have ordered a reMarkable2
i love Brad cause he always puts out the price in the beginning of the video
The one tiny thing that's missing from this is color. I like to highlight and change colors a lot when I write and read and underline. It pops out more for me.
Are you serious? there's no color option?
@@Zero-wl7oe yeah, black and white
@@nishthajain14 Ah that's not good.
Oh wow, such a shame
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.
Thank you very much for your honest review
The ability to hold 100 000 pages is what sold the product to me. Great video.
This is also a fairly expensive (I say "fairly" since there's probably nothing out there right now that's close to the writing/sketching experience) notetaking device. I can imagine there are people who love to flowchart/diagram/mindmap their thoughts or do project planning and bullet journaling - these people, assuming they're rich, might love this.
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?
Thanks from Brasil...you really helped me to think about this product.😊
Briliant video. Love the remarkable. Wish it was in colour. Can I ask you - what do you use to capture such a smooth picture when your demonstrating stuff on the table? It's really good, sharp and responsive. I have a camera projector - but it's very jerky and time laggy? I need something smooth that I can use in Zoom too. What do you use Brad.
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?
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.
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
Just got one. Love it!
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.
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
Just bought one. I don’t want to lose THE important notes for my client meeting anymore. 2nd day, so far loving it.
I'm looking at it to use for notes while studying and such. Being in IT a have to refresh for certifications, I also want to use it as a reader for various books be it enjoyment or study. I'm glad it seems to be getting a lot of positive reviews.
My biggest issue is the "your notes are ours and dont dare unsubscrubsribe from us or else" mentality.
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!
Hey, Brad thank you for such a great video, it made me realize that this tablet wasn't for me Financially, is there anything else out there that you would recommend for me besides a iPad. I'm more for taking notes more and a lot of writing but also not so expensive. I would appreciate any kind of information you can offer that does a bit more than the remarkable 2.
I’d like to see them come out with an A5 size in addition to the Letter. For school I loved the versatility of my iPad (although first gen Pencil did need a redesign), however for work I like having a small notebook to work on. I love using fountain pens but I can see how it would be useful to have something searchable.
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.
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!
Dude I love this even more now!!
great honest review. Thanks
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 Brad!
Could you also review the Onyx Boox to see how the Remarkable compares to it? since the Onyx runs on android, I'm curious about how apps run on e-ink tablet.
The apps themselves dont run great but onyx's note app is great and way more versatile than the rm. Third party reading apps I would say are the secret sauce for onyx devices 👍
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.
Fantastic review! Thanks
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
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 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.
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...
depending on how long this can last it seems like good value for something that could be handed down for years
Merci beaucoup pour votre retour : quand on zoom dans un dessin, est ce infini comme le vectoriel (peut on dessiner de manière TRÈS détaillée)?
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This is actually a great review :) I was just looking for an alternative to the DOZEN of Amazon Choice notepads all over my desk. I don't draw lol I take notes while doing online demos of software. And this sounds perfect for that.
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?