I used a reMarkable for a year - this is what its like

hey friends I used the remarkable for a year and in this video we'll go over if it's something you should consider getting I know I thought a lot about it before I got one and there wasn't any reviews that were useful uh so if you're considering getting remarkable um keep watching and maybe I'll help you make your mind up okay so first thing I'm not a professional I haven't really done this before so you're not going to get some super pro um review here uh it's just me telling you how I use it and what I get out of it um yeah the first thing is the size of this thing so it's a little bit smaller than an A4 sheet of paper um it's quite light and it's quite thin really thin um I've got an iPad and this thing feels lighter than an iPad um it even feels sturdier also the screen isn't like glass and the glare on it isn't um isn't mad so it's got a good feel to it um buttons Wise It's got just this one button over here to go on and the same button to to go off and it's got a charging port here a USBC charging port and these magnetic things which I think are for their keyboard I don't actually know because I haven't got one um I don't know why you would get one because this is good for writing taking notes um that's what I use it for okay so let's get to how it is is to actually use one of these things um I got one of these because I use a million notebooks or I should say I used to use a million notebooks and then I thought wouldn't it be cool to get something that organizes all my notes um in one place with a simple folder system and I thought well I could get a remarkable but I could also get an iPad which does 10,000 other things and so I got an iPad don't do that that was a bad decision um if you thinking I want something where I can write better with less distractions and just start writing with as little friction as necessary get one of these I got the iPad thinking well I'll be able to write but I'll also be able to do all these other things watch videos while I'm traveling and use fancy apps the truth is it was an expensive mistake I got the iPad and did a lot less writing and did a lot more distracting um 6 months later I got one of these um and surprise surprise I was writing a lot more um and I was writing better a lot more more intentionally more often um so yeah uh if if you were like me and you're thinking oh should I get an iPad or should I get one of these go back to why you really want to get one and if you want to write without distractions and you want to be more present with your writing but notebooks don't work because you end up with too many of them like I did then get one of these I used to have about 10 notebooks all of them about a third full and I would keep uh switching from one to the other cuz I had categories that only worked in my head um and as soon as I actually went to write they didn't work I kept thinking oh should I should I write this in this journal or should I write it in that journal and sometimes after I done writing something I was like oh I've already written about this in that other Journal um that still happens but now I can just copy the pages uh from one file to another uh the storage system and this is just like a like a computer there's folders and you can have notebooks in folders you can also read PDFs which is quite cool for and you can underline and annotate them I don't use that feature as much I thought I would when I got it but I don't because the screens just a tiny bit smaller than what would be comfortable for a PDF so unless you have PDFs with like slightly big text size or your eyes are really comfortable reading small text this isn't great for that but it's workable you can work around it uh it's just not as frictionless as I'd like it to be okay one of the great things about how this works is as soon as you turn it on you're in your document let me do that again I turn it on and you're writing okay so this is me writing turn it it off go to sleep come back to my writing and this is me writing again Isn't that cool I love that um this is something that really helps not get distracted there's no notification there's no mail uh there's no Instagram notification I need check uh switch it on straight in it's also got a few handy shortcuts where you can do this from the top and it kind of takes you to where all your folders are and where all your files are and you can just click on daily planner and keep writing so it's quite cool for just picking up starting to write I love that about this it's also really great to use from a feel point of view this thing it doesn't feel like glass uh it feels nice to write on uh this pencil or pen is also really great uh you can pick all sorts of brushes and pencils I don't normally use those I just use the fine liner because I use it to journal but if you're an artist um and you want to shade and stuff it seems pretty good um and whereas writing with a fine liner goes that's really good it also does uh handwriting to printed typed text uh and that's really good too uh that's something I rarely use but every time I've used it it's been pretty good another unexpected thing for me was using this uh with its desktop app to do like a live screen share it works really well so if I'm on a video call with someone uh I can share my screen on my desktop use the remarkable and it just projects what's what's on here on the screen so if someone on on the video call with me is looking at my screen they can see exactly what I'm rising and this is phenomenal I'm an engineer and I work with some other Engineers it's really really good to be able to draw something like even roughly and just sketch out okay this is what I'm talking about right here and it's not possible to do that with a mouse as easily as it is to do it on something that feels like paper um and it works really well uh this screen share cuz it's so simple uh it's really fast it's really responsive uh and you can write stuff and rub stuff out really well so now the cons the most obvious one this thing costs a lot it's about 500 bucks these things don't come cheap these things are expensive um and if you want to buy the pencil which you kind of have to buy and you want the one with a eraser at the back it's about $100 and then if you want like a protective sleeve that's about $50 or $100 depending on which one you get so it does add up it is quite expensive and at the end of the day you are replacing things that are cheap notebooks and pens right those are like $10 $50 for 5 years worth right even if it's 10 notebooks it's not going to cost as much as this I bought mine secondhand so consider doing that to save money um also there's pencils like this that you can buy on Amazon that worked just as well uh one of my friends got one of these for less than half the price on Amazon works great also the sleeve I got one of these sleeves I don't really use it because most of the time this guy I use him at home so I'm pretty careful with him and I haven't needed a sleeve the odd time I do take it to the office I take it in my laptop bag and it's got a it's got a slot to keep a tablet in so I just keep this there so think about how you're going to use it and you know save yourself some cash don't get the sleeve if you don't need need to get it so yeah that's how I made it cheap after paying for an iPad okay that's my review uh of this product it's it's great um I think a remarkable is pretty cool to have if you're looking for a way to organize your thoughts organize your writing in a simple friction free way um and besides the cost there's really no downside it's pretty cool it does a great screen share um which works in teams calls and zoom calls to share what you're drawing with people you're working with if you like what you see uh and want to see more videos uh click on this link over here to keep watching drop me a comment about absolutely anything I read them all so it'll be good to hear from 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Published: Tue Apr 09 2024