If you’re sketching something on the device, and want to broadcast it to your colleagues on a video call, you can through the reMarkable desktop app. Screen sharing works well, even if it’s a bit hard to come up with a use case.The marker doesn’t ever need to be charged or set up. So far, I’ve only charged the device whenever a USB-C cord is nearby and haven’t thought much about the battery otherwise. reMarkable states that the battery on this tablet lasts two weeks, and I tend to get around that much. When I buy a new device that needs to be charged every day, I notice it and it’s annoying. (You can also adjust the stroke thickness and color separately.) The digital writing instruments offer a great writing experience-you can tell the reMarkable team put a lot of thought into them. Most of these options have tilt and pressure sensitivity and adjust the stroke accordingly. The options for writing instruments (all of which use the same physical pen) are a: ballpoint pen, fineliner, marker, pencil, mechanical pencil, paintbrush, highlighter, and calligraphy pen. The digital marker options are good and feel natural.There’s not much else you can do with the device-and in my opinion that’s a selling feature. If you’re like me, you’ll spend more of your time on the device flipping between pages of notebooks, handwriting notes, reading and marking up PDFs, and sketching illustrations and photos. The reMarkable 2’s feature set is purposefully smaller than with other devices. I love how disconnected the device feels-you couldn’t distract yourself with its internet connection if you tried. The device connects to the internet, but mostly to sync notes to the company’s cloud service, download software updates, and enable the odd feature, like live screen sharing on Zoom calls. Unlike the iPad or other tablets, you can’t install apps onto this thing, and you won’t get notifications as you use the reMarkable, either. Erased content becomes transparent as you erase it, and then disappears once you lift the marker off the page. This is likely because of the texture of the screen, pictured below this section of the article. Not only does the device’s marker feel like you’re writing on paper, but its eraser feels like you’re actually erasing what you’ve written. The eraser on the more expensive marker works exceptionally well.(Latency is much longer when you interact with the user interface elements using your finger.) The latency-how long it takes for your writing to show up-is also fantastic, especially for an e-ink screen. It even sounds like you’re writing on paper. It’s tactile like paper, with just the right amount of friction between the marker and the device’s surface. Writing on the tablet feels like writing on paper.If you have a role for this device in your workflow, and you can stomach the price tag, you’ll love this thing. The marker writes beautifully, which makes the device great for jotting down notes, brainstorming, dealing with and marking up PDFs, and reading research papers (a favorite use case of mine). Odd as this might sound, the reMarkable 2 feels like more of an “analog” device than a digital one-it’s more of a paper or notebook replacement than an iPad replacement. The battery lasts around two weeks, give or take, depending on your usage. The device lets you sync all your notes to the cloud, and you can use the desktop app to convert your handwritten scribbles into text. It’s very thin, incredibly light, and comes with a “marker” (for an extra charge) that makes writing on the tablet feel like you’re writing on paper. The reMarkable 2 ($299, plus marker ($79-129), plus case ($79-169), plus monthly subscription ($5-$8)) is a digital tablet with an e-ink display, similar to that of e-readers like the Kindle. A summary of whether I think you should buy one.īottom line: the reMarkable 2 is a fantastic device, assuming you have a place for it in your workflow and your wallet.After seeing the video for the second version of the device, I’d been thinking about picking one up-so it was a no-brainer to agree to the company’s offer to send one over to try. Recently, reMarkable sent me the latest version of their tablet to try out and review. I love mine and use it pretty much every day. You’ll need to swallow the device’s hefty price tag-but the company has a generous 100 day return policy if you have regrets. If you have digital “paperwork” as part of your day-you deal with a lot of PDFs or often make handwritten notes-or want the best tablet writing experience on the market, this is the tablet for you. Takeaway: The reMarkable 2 is a beautiful digital tablet that feels like an analog one.
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