reMarkable - worthwhile?
Discussion
I had one of the original ‘v1’ one some years ago. I was filling up A5 notebooks in in-person meetings and never transferred my notes to OneNote where I kept my client data.
It worked in that I started to keep a digital record but the handwriting recognition wasn’t great so it didn’t really work for me. I ended up selling it after 6 months or so. Now, pretty much all my meetings are online and I either use Otter.ai to convert my spoken notes to text or work directly on OneNote.
The paper ‘feel’ is great, I really wanted to stick with it. Maybe the new one is much better. I see they do a 100 day trial now on the V2, that seems a good deal.
It worked in that I started to keep a digital record but the handwriting recognition wasn’t great so it didn’t really work for me. I ended up selling it after 6 months or so. Now, pretty much all my meetings are online and I either use Otter.ai to convert my spoken notes to text or work directly on OneNote.
The paper ‘feel’ is great, I really wanted to stick with it. Maybe the new one is much better. I see they do a 100 day trial now on the V2, that seems a good deal.
They are a brilliant piece of kit. Really love mine.
The only gotcha is the subscription:
https://support.remarkable.com/s/topic/0TO7Q000000...
My purchase pre-dates the introduction of this so I don't have to pay, but for new customers its £2.99 per month.
The only gotcha is the subscription:
https://support.remarkable.com/s/topic/0TO7Q000000...
My purchase pre-dates the introduction of this so I don't have to pay, but for new customers its £2.99 per month.
As above, my desk is SO much tidier since I got mine. Use it for everything, can access the notes from anywhere when I don't have it with me - mine is also from a time before subscription but £2.99 a month is worth every single penny.
UI can be a bit slow when adding and renaming notebooks etc but the handwriting is excellent.
I don't use most of it's capabilities, handwriting only. But wouldn't be without it now.
UI can be a bit slow when adding and renaming notebooks etc but the handwriting is excellent.
I don't use most of it's capabilities, handwriting only. But wouldn't be without it now.
I tried one for a couple of months but ended up with an iPad Pro. Using Apple Pencil and a paper like screen cover it is a nice as writing on the Remarkable. It comes with a host of other benefits including really good handwriting recognition and the ability to easily use the notes with MS office 365 / Outlook / Teams, media consumption (Youtube/Netflix) and games.
Paft Dunk said:
I had one of the original ‘v1’ one some years ago. I was filling up A5 notebooks in in-person meetings and never transferred my notes to OneNote where I kept my client data.
It worked in that I started to keep a digital record but the handwriting recognition wasn’t great so it didn’t really work for me. I ended up selling it after 6 months or so. Now, pretty much all my meetings are online and I either use Otter.ai to convert my spoken notes to text or work directly on OneNote.
The paper ‘feel’ is great, I really wanted to stick with it. Maybe the new one is much better. I see they do a 100 day trial now on the V2, that seems a good deal.
Similar situation with me. I had the V1 about 3 years ago and I did like it. It was very good to write on, very slim, great battery life, and so on. I used it instead of A5 notebooks.It worked in that I started to keep a digital record but the handwriting recognition wasn’t great so it didn’t really work for me. I ended up selling it after 6 months or so. Now, pretty much all my meetings are online and I either use Otter.ai to convert my spoken notes to text or work directly on OneNote.
The paper ‘feel’ is great, I really wanted to stick with it. Maybe the new one is much better. I see they do a 100 day trial now on the V2, that seems a good deal.
I just got bored with the limitations and switched to 2021 iPad Pro with the Apple Pen.
The writing experience on the iPad isn't as good, but it is certainly usable. I just like the sheer unlimited integration with the iPad. Apps like Nebo/Evernote you can scribble and then convert handwritten notes to text (and it works incredibly well), drop it straight into Word/Outlook or whatever, sketch and highlight in full colour onto PDF's or sign them and then email them in Outlook, and the iPad can obviously convert speech to text really well, which I find handy for meetings or just dictating reports. It's the whole package of anything you can think you want to do, you can do it. Annotate images, or photos, scribble on anything in any way you can think of. Drop text into any other format or application etc. Take a load of handwritten notes in a meeting, then seamlessly airdrop them onto my MacBook for pasting into Word.
The reMarkable is a good product, and one of their marketing points is that there are no distractions of other apps and features when using it, but the problem for me is that I realised I wanted the 'distractions'
If you treat reMarkable as the convenient, black and white, organisable, and endless notepad that is is, and you'll probably like it. If you think you will need to drop your writings and notes in and out of other apps like Word/Outlook while staying on the same device, or need colour, or just want to quickly browse the internet to look something up while you are writing, and so on, then it is probably not for you.
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