You really need to support it with a table or your knees or something. The holding hand doesn’t provide quite enough support. Not surprisingly, it’s a bit awkward to hold the tablet with one hand and write with the other. You can tell they added some texture to make this more lifelike, but it’s not the same. It’s still better than a normal screen (like a iPad) though. The surface feels a bit too smooth - it doesn’t have the same friction as dragging a pen over paper. There’s layers, like in image editing software.It’s leagues ahead of writing on a “normal” tablet using a stylus.ĭrawing on the reMarkable has the following advantages over paper: It doesn’t quite feel like paper - it’s not that close - but apart from actually writing on paper it’s the best I’ve tried (having, admittedly, not tried that many). The writing experience is very very good. A “next-generation paper tablet”, it promises you that you can “Replace your notebooks and printed documents with the only tablet that feels like paper”. If you’re like me, “clean up your big pile of papers” can sometimes become a bit of an “ugh” task that you can’t get around to and which sucks up a lot of energy.Įnter the reMarkable 2. It’s easy to make a mess by creating a huge stack of paper.Sometimes you lose your old paper where you wrote something important (usually, because you didn’t know at the time it would be important).Back at the university of Copenhagen, I used to print out a lot of stuff and spiral-back it, but I can’t do this any more). This means you have to buy a book (these have a tendency to pile up rapidly, if it even is a book you can buy) or print it out (this tends to be messy, and you might not have a printer. If you want to write your notes about something you’re reading on paper, the best place is the thing you’re reading - but this requires that it be on paper (instead of a computer).I also invite you to consider buying a big notebook, but I haven’t tried that yet myself. Go to these links to buy some right now, they’re cheap (but you probably have this stuff already - use it!). Actually, if you take one recommendation from this review, just make sure to keep paper and pen wherever you work and use it all the time. There’s absolutely no reason to strain your head to the breaking point, keeping a bunch of things inside it, instead of putting them on paper. Whoever you are, you should be using more paper. Periodically add a fresh dump of blank papers to your backpack.Periodically go through your papers and throw out any that have writing all over them.When you stop working, gather all the papers into your backpack.If there’s no space, go through the papers until you find some space.When you need to think, locate a blank spot on a piece of paper in front of you and write there.When you sit down to work somewhere, get laptop, stack of papers, and a ballpoint pen out.Keep a stack of papers and ballpoint pens in my backpack (along with the books I’m using and my laptop and so on).My workflow for most of my first five years at university consisted of the following: She meticulously pagemarks and sorts all her notes into plastic sleeves and binders. She has had the same color-coding system for her notes since we started university 1. She buys a specific brand of Japanese calendar ( Hobonichi) each year. She own several different fountain pens and a metric boatload of ballpoint pens, gel pens, highlighters, markers, and what have you. My fiancé is one of those stationery nerds.
If you’re in the market for a tablet to use also for laptop tasks, it’s not up to the job. If you own a laptop and are considering buying a tablet, which you anticipate using largely for reading and writing, the reMarkable is recommendable. I would not recommend saving up for the reMarkable - that is, if your disposable income is small and you’d need to make an effort over a time period to find the money, it’s probably not worth it.
In my opinion, these devices are now good enough that it’s worth paying a premium to get the “paper experience”. Would I buy the reMarkable again? That is, if it was struck by a meteor tomorrow, would I buy a new one? Yes (but see my notes on other options).
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