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Here is my in Depth review of the reMarkable writing tablet. It’s written from the standpoint of actually using the device vs. just comparing bullet point features (though I do that as well). (UPDATE – see end of article)
A little background
I have always been in love with writing, and especially printing. In the past I owned a Franklin planner and used it religiously. Not to long ago I rediscovered my tiny handheld book, sought out new pages as well as my fancy pen and committed to using it. It was very fun. However, it was still paper, with all the limitations.
Many years ago (before the advent of the Apple Newton) at the Consumer Electronics show in Chicago I saw the AT&T EO. This was the coolest thing I had every seen – it was a notepad that you could write on, had a built in phone (with a full sized headset, could recognize handwriting and used the notebook metaphor for storage of ideas.
Then it just disappeared.
Recently there has been a revival of the concept of an electronic notepad – and it should be a fairly easy thing to pull off.
And yet the options for a true writing tablet are limited. Companies like Amazon and Barnes and Noble really could have introduced an amazing device by enhancing one of their existing devices, but they did not.
E-ink
e-ink, unlike a standard display, is just on or off. So if you change the display it just sits there, whether there is power or not. It only uses power to change the display, not to keep it going. This tech has been used for a while in signs for merch for a while (Whole Foods, Kohls, etc.). it means the display is crisp and looks awesome in direct sunlight, and is the technology that all the e-readers are based on. The downside for now is that these displays do not update quickly. Anyone who has used a Kindle/Nook has seen this.
What I considered
I looked at the product by Sony, the ipad and ipad pro, and a handful of other competitors. None of them seemed to have the simplicity and had the right mindset except for reMarkable (the name sort of helped, since that’s also my email address…). A lot of them were caught up in being an “everything” notebook. reMarkable seems to get the “distraction-less” experience. The price was competitive too, all features and function considered.
What this is not
Before we get into this let’s be clear what this device is NOT:
What it is:
It is a writing tablet. That’s it. And that’s all I wanted; an electronic version of a writing tablet. So if you are asking questions like “Does it have a camera?” or “Can you browser the web” or “What apps does it load” or “Does it run android?” then the answer is “Wrong question” and you need to correct your mindset.
If you can’t do it with a real writing tablet you probably can’t do it with the remarkable, and you shouldn’t.
So, if you are looking for an electronic writing tablet, here’s what you’ll encounter with the reMarkable…
The interface is minimal, like a real notpad – the only technology things are the wifi indicator and battery % – there isn’t even a clock, and I like that.
Like the AT&T EO that I will never ever see again, your sheets are organized into notebooks, which is just a stack of paper. You can make as many of these as you want, and put as many pages in as you want. Yes there’s a finite limit, but it’s got around 7.5 gig of usable storage so, let’s not get absurd about your writing needs. it’s enough; more than enough.
Ordering
I ordered online and express shipping is included. $499. It arrived quickly via a slightly crabby DHL person.
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The cable is a standard micro usb to USB cable. Like many products being sold now there is no power supply but you can use any standard USB charger or even connect it to your PC/Mac (and get an added bonus – see below). There’s a main button on top, a port for the cable on the bottom, and three square buttons allow the bottom face for back home and forward.
Let me give you the likes and dislikes in bullet format before I give you the overall, because that’s probably what you want anyway if you’re like me…
What I liked and what surprised me:
What I wasn’t fond of / was disappointed by
Using it:
It’s a great experience using this. If you wake it from sleep it wakes up almost instantly and jumps on the WIFI and starts syncing anything it hadn’t synced, you can use it immediately. The menu item on the left side (or right if you’re left-handed) shows you Notebooks, Documents, eBooks or bookmarks. These are just filters for the My Files above that. Your stuff occupies most of the pad as little rectangles representing the last page you worked on in a document, ebook or notepad. Just tap it and the page loads and you go from there.
The drawing tools are simple and you get a pen, pencil, brush, highlighter and eraser. There are variations of each of the above too. I defaulted to using the pen + finepoint + black + middle size stroke, which means it ignores pressure sensitivity or angle and you get the exact thickness and darkness in each stroke. I’m boring but I like my writing to be consistent and predictable.
The drawing tools are located along the left side and there are icons along the top. You can reduce this to a minimum by clicking the bottom arrow or minimize them almost completely (leaving only a small square at the top). This is nice if you want to maximize the writing real estate and treat the tablet just like a blank sheet of paper.
You can zoom in and out, by just choosing a zoom level or just drawing around the area you want to zoom into, and you can pan around. Very useful for getting more into a small area or correcting minor issues. This is one of those magic technology advantages that an electronic tablet as over a standard one. When starting a notebook or new page you get to choose a “template” which is really just the background you’re taking notes on. These range from looking just like a legal piece of paper to a grid, to dots to a checklist, even a storyboard or a perspective map. You can even add your own templates and some people sell them on Etsy. I tend to choose the find grid for almost everything including writing lists. When you send your notebook via email the template is also shown (in my opinion the template should be dimmed out more when printing, but I think that’s a minor rendering issue/choice on reMarkable’s part). https://high-powersales352.weebly.com/bank-account-software-for-mac.html.
The reMarkable really dangerously enables my Productivity ADD (I made that up) because there’s almost no effort switching between notebooks, so I can go from working on the next podcast, to writing in a journal, to taking notes from a phone call, to mindlessly doodling. If you did this in “real life” you’d either have to carry around a bunch of notebooks, or get a big thick on and keep flipping to sections for each subject, but then you’d run into the problem of not having enough pages for a certain section. This was really useful for keeping things straight for my daughter’s recent car accident and I immediately flipped to it any time I had a conversation with the towing company, the auto body place, the insurance company and the car rental place.
Sharing
You can very easily eMail a notebook to anyone, in the form of a PDF, PNG or SVG. How to use apps from unknown developers mac. The email comes from your email address, and you cannot control what it says which is simply:
Sent from my reMarkable paper tablet
Get yours at www.remarkable.com. PS: You cannot reply to this email
So, if you want to send something you are working on to a client without advertising your nifty tablet, you can’t.
That being said, it really is an amazing thing to take a whole bunch of notes in a meeting, and then before you even leave the client’s site they have a copy of all of your notes in the mailbox, as a pdf… Sure you could do that with a laptop/macbook, but they would really have handwritten notes, and I venture that your creative thoughts are expressed better in handwritten notes vs a few bullet items in text in an email. Sending an entire “notebook” makes that very handy and you can now send just one sheet. https://monotree990.weebly.com/limbo-pc-emulator-windows-xp-iso-download.html.
As a bonus, you can use the mobile software and the desktop software to do the same kind of sharing. With the mobile software you can send the PDF not only via email, but send via text message, add to notes, print or even air drop it (on the iPhone).
Artist sketchpad
If you are an artist you might fall in love with this as a sketch pad. I am not and my doodles look like they should only be featuring wooly mammoths and stick men with bows and arrows, so I can’t speak to that. People who are actual artists really seem to enjoy it. But selling a notepad based on an artist’s talent is like selling a microphone based on a really good singer.
Documents & eBooks
Remember I said that it wasn’t (intended) to be an eBook reader. Well it is an ebook reader, I just didn’t buy it for that. The reMarkable can load and read ePub books (not Amazon compatible books). So, if you had a non-Amazon reader and your books are ePub and DRM free you should be able to load them on the reMarkable. The bonus of reading ebooks here is that you can mark them up like you would in real life and draw all over the page (not just highlight next). Even scribble in the margins. So that means your cool notebook is also a repository for your books (or a book you want to take on vacation with you).
I converted my latest book (Alchemy for Life: Formulas for Success) to a .pdf and then brought it into the reMarkable (via the desktop app – very easy). This was really a cool thing because not only could I read it and mark it up, but I could fill out the worksheets in the back. And erase and reuse again and again.
This form-filling ability is why some people use the reMarkable. Just load in a pdf form and you can freehand fill it out. People use it for interviews, onboarding, etc.
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A recent software upgrade allows you to convert your printing to text and then email it. Your results, like your handwriting, will vary. It is fun to play with but you do have to be connected to the cloud via wifi at the time. You have to convert an entire notebook and can’t convert only one page at a time. I’m assuming this will change.
Accessories
I opted not to buy the folio advertised on the reMarkable site, as it seems rather costly ($80 – $130) for what amounts to a sleeve you shove the remarkable into. Instead I found a leather case cover on Amazon for $20. It keeps the remarkable safe, has a cover and even a strap for your hand to hold it while you use it. I feel a little safer with this as this $20 cover will take the brunt of a spill or a scratch instead of my $500 pad. I do get the urge to take it out but I feel this case really completes it. After a week of use I can say this is a must, especially at this price.
Syncing
Syncing is a big bonus. The tablet syncs to the cloud (which is a google-hosted cloud account provided for free by reMarkable). That sync creates a backup of your stuff which in and of itself is a great thing. However it also allows a different kind of syncing. You can (and should) install the desktop app (both for PC and Mac) and mobile (for iphone and android) to sync and see your stuff. The reason this is a bonus is because you can not only see everything you’re working on, but you can print it or delete it, or move it. So if your pad is at home and you want to check your notes, they are on your phone, or your Mac.
This means you are free to take all the notes you want and not care about whether you are forced to keep the notepad with you all all times. So take it to your conference and then leave it at home when you go back to work – you still have ALL of your notes and doodles and drawings. No one seems to get how important or useful this is. The downside of writing in a notebook has been removed.
Battery Life
The battery is supposed to last for about four days between charges. https://yellowdynamic813.weebly.com/blog/install-apps-from-anywhere-mac. I went a couple days and then charged it. Since I’m forcing myself to use it as often as possible I am probably using it more than average, but I think the four days is reasonable.
Intuitively it seems like this should last a lot longer as e-ink screens are pretty low power, and the processor should be half asleep most of the time. However four days (or even two days) is fine. Though I haven’t done the math I can’t shake the feeling that an e-ink tablet should have a couple weeks of power?
Sleeping vs off
If you do not use the pad for a while it goes to light sleep and you can just wake it by hitting the middle button, but if you hit the top power button it goes to sleep. If you hold down the button for four seconds you can then turn it completely off.
It will still be using power in light sleep or sleep. Receiver for mac.
So it goes Light Sleep –> Sleep –> Off.
My wish list
These may or may not be reasonable, but they are all very doable and almost all just software enhancements. This would turn the reMarkable into the perfect device for me, personally and selfishly:
Executive Summary
Overall I would recommend this for the reasons stated above.
About me
I’ve run a small tech consulting business for 15+years, became a coach three years ago, published four books and a card game, invented a role playing game 20 years ago, love notes and writing and keep damn good documentation. I have an eye for noticing things others don’t and a desire to help everyone also see that, gently and without condescension. As far as I know.
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