Remarkable 2 after 9 months- how I use files, notebooks, pdfs & planners.

hi it's gary in this video i'm going to give you a tour of the remarkable two i've had this since april last year and i use it every day i use it in work and i use it at home as well prior to having this i would write a bullet journal on newspaper planners so what i've done i'm going to take you inside the journal i've set up a mock copy of my current filing system and what i use and the planner that i use as well so i'll jump in there i just want to say as well there's if you are interested in this there's a great community on youtube of people who do reviews and guides of this there's a few people that can mention to watch there's um jb morning coach he's a he is really good at doing reviews of these another paper tablets you've got voya at my deep guide who um really goes he does like hour-long deep dives into tablets such as this one and then there's alex samuels as well who would really recommend he does similar to me he likes minimalist products and the idea of this is you can get away from the internet and you can really get stuck into a a no distraction device and his channel is great for that and other ways to go minimalistic as well so without further ado i will pass over to the journal and let you have a look inside it okay so welcome to inside the remarkable and i'll give you a quick tour of how i use it so what i like to do now is i use when i first got it i had this about nine months it was quite messy and had my files all over the place so more recently i've tidied it up into six main files so i've got health home family learning and hobbies work and then i've got an archive as well and the idea is that there's two ways to do the files and to save things you can either go into each file and you can find the notebooks within there and then you can you can go into it so for example if you've got a um a journal you can or like say an exercise tracker or whatever you want to use your notebook for like a bullet journal you can choose like a collection you can choose however you want to set it up so say we're doing uh you know an exercise tracker um so say the 14th um so today like i did 10 000 steps for example or whatever it might be that you're trying to track and then you can move move forward and what have you so that's one way to go into your files um another way to do it is just when you're there and you open your notebook up and you want to take a quick note so you just click quick sheets there and let's say you're watching a youtube video um and it's about um i don't know an electric bike that you're thinking of buying and you're watching a couple of videos on it and you think right well well this one looks good and there we go you make some notes and then you move on you're gonna write another note there about the next one number two etc then you want to move these somewhere so you're going to press this button here and you're going to select these two files these two pages i should say and you'll click move move out of here and then choose where you want them to go so this is going to be in learning and hobbies i think because when i'm thinking about an electric bike so i'm going to click a new notebook i'm going to call it electric bike i'm going to create that and then now if i go into my notes go into learning and and that's there nice and easy to find another way to do it is just when you open it up if you pull down from the top there that takes you to your recent files to electric bike quick sheets exercise tracker and then you've got your favorites as well so that's one way to keep on top of your notes move your notes around quite easy to do the main thing i do in here is i use it as a planner and a journal i like to try what i like about the remarkable is it it's not connected to the internet so it's quite nice to just open it up and you can you know you can get into your journal get into your planner and and you can see your calendar and you've got no distractions and you can keep up to date so what i've got in here um you can buy these how it works this is a pdf you've got notebooks which we were just using then writing the pages and then your pdf so you can markup pdfs and what you can buy on etsy is people have made planners and the good thing about it is i'll show you that with the planners for example this one here this is the daily planner by e-paper templates you can look that up on on etsy there's lots of them available this is just the one i particularly like and there's a good one from my deep guide as well which i've used before but because it's a clickable pdf for a diary what it means is that you can click all the links here and i'll take you through it so for example you click 2022 you've got all of you you can write on any of these pages you know you've got that whole uh yeah and then if you click on these numbers here it takes into the quarter which is quite nice so you can sort of highlight what events you've got coming up holidays the kids holidays you can pencil them in you can even put them in a different color if one's work or home so you can have gray for home black for work whatever you want to do and then moving on from there you can go into the months and it gives you a full overview of that month so you can you know pencil in what you what you've got coming up and then when you finish that what i use mostly is the week so you've got a week view so you can you can write in what you've got coming up but i like to sort of retrospectively writing what i've been doing is that my memory is terrible and it's just like to look back on the week you can see where you've been up to when you've done doing that so you can have a look at the week and then quickly click into the day so you can write your top priorities fill in your schedule for the day your tasks and then as you're going through the day say for example with my job i'm on the phone quite a lot speaking to customers so when they call up i'll make some notes and then what's nice is rather than previously where i've have a notebook and i like to to doodle and then at the end of the notebook you just got pages and pages with this one when you finish speaking to someone when you finish making some notes you can just tidy up and go back to your day and if there's anything you need to do out of that you can put a task in like whatever it might be so that's quite nice you've got these buttons at the top that one takes you back to your monthly calendar this one takes you to a daily contents so what i've been doing recently with this one and on the 2021 version of this is just fill in the highlight of each day so then you can look back and flick through each month and see what you've been up to so again give you a sort of an overview of where you're going with things the progress you're trying to make and then you've got an overview of the month with a tracker at the bottom which is quite handy you can tick off what you want to do and then you've got a goal section there's 900 pages in this but the way they've done it is it's linked so for example your goals here you can put in your details click go back it's very well thought out back to your calendar and then for example if you're on whichever section you're in if you're on the week you scroll it gets you to the next week if you're on the day you scroll to the next page and it takes you to the next day you've got links up here as well so it's really really nice so this is from e paper templates so not sponsored or anything by them but they're just one i kind of like at the moment but if you go on that see there's there's lots available and that you can have a look at so that that's pretty much how i use my um my remarkable too on a daily basis i use it every day i've had this for about nine months now i really like it um let's see it's really thin so if you guys think about the notebooks are actually in there they're probably there's a good stack in there like that it's all condensed into there um so pulling down then so i'll use that um planner and then when i want to write for example um that do three good things i've done this since last april which is you know through covenant and what have you it's just to write down three good things that have happened every day it's supposed to be good for your uh physical mental well-being to do this i read so i've been trying it and it does actually work so you can look back and you think you know what i've been up to if you had a bad day you can look back and you can write you know for example major spagbol um today uh made a youtube video that i've been meaning to do for a while uh watch don't look up you know that was good um eat all these different things like all the the kids milestone like you know you could work football or um like my daughter did something really cute these sorts of things you can look back at it so if you're getting stressed out on anything you just go and have a look at this it's quite good and then if you want to keep a journal you can have a separate page so you've got your daily planner for writing down all your bits and bobs you meetings and your um you know your task obligations what's coming up your events and this that and the other birthdays and we'll have you all go in there and then if you want to write anything longer you can just close this down pop back into your files choose um where would it be health and well-being then like a journal here so you can just write anything you want the right is so such like paper you can write today i made a youtube video i had been putting off for a while about the remarkable two etc etc etc so that is a look inside the rm2 i hope you find that useful if you want to see anything more or anything more detail just let me know so thank you very much for watching that and i hope you found it useful i tried to provide a video of what i wanted to see when i first was looking for the remarkable so i hope that provided some answers to questions if you are looking at getting one if this is the sort of thing that you like please do subscribe to the channel and i'll try and bring more content like this in the future

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Published: Sat Jan 15 2022