Remarkable 2 | Perfect TECH for a MINIMALIST TRAVELER

hey everybody are you the kind of traveler that when you get ready to go on a trip you're so stoked to bring your favorite books to read and some journals to just let out some thoughts you know mentally processed what's going on on the trip if so I know that we can share the issue that is how am I going to pack all this stuff and stay minimal and not have to bring so much luggage well I think this piece of tech might solve all of our problems while somehow still keeping the tactile feel of a journal and a book and that is the remarkable 2 paper tablet this video is not sponsored by remarkable this product is 3 years old so this is not new tech but it is such a unique piece of tech that I recently purchased it this year and I am so excited to bring it on my trips in 2024 so let's get into why and because we have this we're definitely not going to be needing all of these so some really quick text specs you can watch other videos to get all the text specs you need we have a 10 10.6 in screen right here it is this incredible textured glass that apparently took them like 6 years to figure out how to do and ultimately it is the they claim the world's thinnest tablet on the market and honestly it is very thin it's about 400 G in weight which is super lightweight um it's way thinner than an iPad I mean unbelievably thinner it is not meant for you know reading books it's actually meant for note taking and brainstorming Ing and being able to use a device that doesn't cause extra distractions while you're trying to focus and work through your work your personal thoughts whatever it is this device can do that for you so let's get into the reasons why I personally purchased it I do love to read but I go in waves of reading so when I was looking into getting an e tablet I knew I didn't really want to get a Kindle or anything that was mostly for reading because I'll basically get obsessed with reading for like a month or two and then I'll go 3 months without reading a book and then I'll go back to reading books what I do genuinely love to do all of the time is note taking brainstorming and journaling those are three things that have genuinely boosted my productivity in the last year and I wanted a device that would basically help me to continue doing that um and ultimately kind of get rid of the need to have to carry around paper and Pen all the time there's been three products this year that have made my productivity shoot through the roof and the first one was swipes which is a re able paper that you use wet erase markers on you can write on it it dries instantly and then you're able to wash the paper off in the sink literally with just water or some soap and then you're able to continually reuse those papers that for me was a huge game Cher which then led me to purchase the grov made note taking kit and ultimately I just loved the aesthetic of it I loved how beautiful it was how handmade and just amazing it made my desk look and then from there I started thinking so I use these like to-do list type things on top of all the other Tech I own like an iPhone and my Mac and all my camera gear and everything else but it helps me to do those things better like making YouTube videos or planning or trip planning whatever it is and so then I started looking into a product that could kind of solve all those issues and that's when the remarkable jumped off of the screen to me and I thought this is something worth trying and worst case scenario I return it so I'm going to turn the remarkable on one thing I love about the remarkable that differenti appreciates it from others is that they develop their own operating system this is not running on Android you're not going to feel like you own a Samsung this is a completely unique operating system that really reminds me of the beginning days of Mac OS where you just have super simplistic looks I mean you literally are looking at what looks like a paper a sheet of paper and one of my other favorite things about this is that I can be out in the sun and it again looks like I'm reading a book or it looks like I'm staring at a a piece of paper and I'm able to do everything I want to do so when you turn it on this is going to be your homepage super simplistic um you are able to import books to it which I absolutely love because I am all about notetaking while reading books which I know is a sin to a lot of people but it makes me feel better that this is a digital copy I like to keep my remarkable screen very simple because I realize that if I start getting into the really complicated templates that other people have created it kind of over complicates my use of the remarkable in itself and so one thing I keep on the front page is my weekly calendar that I update every single day um and ultimately this is my past week and then in here you can actually just add a page and what it will do is automatically duplicate a new page with that same template and so you can easily just write the weekend uh you know write what's coming up things like that and then over here we have all of our different options this device because of how simple it is it doesn't doesn't connect to the internet you literally have no web browser on this device all you have is the ability to import things to this device from their mobile apps which are awesome and work almost like airdrop they're seamless um from your phone or your desktop to your markable tablet or you can use the templates that they create in here so I'll show you all of their template options which are awesome so what you do is you just select template and then right here you'll see all of the templates that they offer which is a crazy amount and then they even have them categorized up here creative grids life organized lines and the cool thing with this is you can import a PDF as a template and then basically use it however you like or you can just use their very simplistic templates that I find to be super super useful they have multiple different week planners this is obviously my favorite week planner honestly I'm so impressed with this user interface so simplistic as you can see when you hit hit this top right it toggles on and off all of your options so it just makes your screen look so clean one of the coolest things here is that you can send whatever you do to your email you can also convert it to text which works great one of the main things that I use this for is YouTube video planning and being able to really think through what it is that I'm creating and so the simplistic interface really helps I also am able to doodle on this a lot of people purchase this if they like to draw I'm not an artist by any means when it comes to drawing um but I do like to have the ability to Doodle and that when I purchased an iPad I never used it to watch shows or anything like that I used an iPad to use procreate to Doodle and it was a really fun you know mental Escape basically and so this is awesome because I can use this as a productivity device but at the same time I can hop in and doodle another cool thing is I can send this to my email and when I do it converts into a vector file so I could then print this or digitize this to any size that I want to use for videos or print or anything like that if you're loving the video so far make sure you subscribe basically 98% of our viewers are not subscribed so we're going to be making tons of more Tech videos that are focused on travel and use but also just everyday life cool stuff that the travel Community can benefit from another amazing feature is that you can import articles from your Google Chrome using a plugin that remarkable developed and when it Imports over to your remarkable tablet you get an article that has zero images zero ads it's literally just the article and I love it for that so as I was reading this article I was able to really focus on what they were saying and take notes and think through this and that for me is huge cuz I'm a visual learner but that also means I'm visually very easily distracted while creating or planning or anything like that with being a visual learner I love having the ability to take notes on top of whatever I'm doing and that for me is kind of where this whole thing wins is that I can journal in here like a life Daily Journal or I can plan my week and make sure everything is really categorized one of my absolute favorite apps which you probably saw our previous video which is using notion for trip planning or just life planning I will basically type my videos out in notion and then I will copy and paste them into my remarkable desktop app which within literally seconds it updates my actual remarkable tablet and then the cool thing is on top of that text I can actually take notes and say you know oh I don't want to forget about this part because I want them to know that they can get a discount right or something like that so I love this again I love the Hands-On nature I love the visual learning aspect I love that you know it's just easy to use and it kind of brings us back to using a tech that slows us down but not in a way that's frustrating when Tech is just slow and glitchy it's very frustrating but when Tech is slow for a purpose like using something that doesn't have access to the internet that's important that's something that we want right and so for me this kind of really fixes all those problems that I have so I'm actually going to talk about the pens right now so this is the remarkable marker plus this pin literally sells for $129 it's a pretty normal looking pin okay like it's nothing crazy and basically it has a built-in eraser so I'm able to go straight to the tablet and erase with it which is nice but that's nothing crazy I mean I also can use the erase tool that's built in here so ultimately for me I have small hands so when I was riding with this it felt like it was huge like look at how much space is just here so it just kind of felt like wonky and a little bit strange so I started doing some research online and I found out about this Statler Norris digital jumbo pin which basically this pen is $35 and it has an eraser on the top that works and then of course it has the stylus that you can replace whenever you want and what I would say the difference is of these two for a almost $100 price difference is the stor feels like a ballpoint pin or a gel pen when you're using it on this device it just like really is smooth and Glides very easy whereas the remarkable Market plus it seems that with their stylus tip it is a little bit thicker you can tell um it feels more like a pencil and you get more of a sound with it so it does definitely kind of generate that like pencil to paper feel whereas this one is more like a pen to paper feel um and so I will say the feel on the remarkable marker plus feels way better this is more like a pen but I love like I love how much smaller it is for me specifically so I'm going to try to see if I can interchange these styluses without damaging this one um because if I could get this stylus onto here I think we'd be in business for me personally so definitely look into those two pens I do love how easy it is to just carry this and like take it places and then you just pop it into sleep mode and it doesn't get woken up or anything by touch which is cool so you have to actually push down on the button over there one thing that could make you not purchase this is that there is no backlight because it is literally paper um you're not going to be able to read this in the dark you'd actually have to purchase a little book light that you'd put on a typical book um but I haven't come across that scenario yet where it was too dark in the room I was in where I couldn't read and we know in airplanes that we can use the little above light and it will shoot down so I'm not too worried about that um the Kindle scribe is an option that has a brightness adjustment and has similar features to the remarkable but then again you're also having a lot of cons because it runs on Android and the looks just aren't as nice it also just doesn't feel as good and it's not this thin so it's definitely up to you but I will say this piece of text surprised me that I'm so excited to use it in 2024 I feel like I'm going to be reading more the first week I got it I read a book in like 2 days and I've just been taking a ton of notes on it been just doing you know open conscious thoughts um and overall I just love the workflow that it's brought to my desk and just to my everyday life I'll take this to a coffee shop and just sit down and read and think and write and that just feels good to not have my laptop open but then I'll come back home I'll set this on my desk have my weekly planner open and my to-do list and I'll get to work and it feels like my headp space is more clear because I was able to just focus on one simple thing that didn't have notifications buzzing in every single second thank you so much for watching this video If you guys enjoyed it make sure you subscribe like and comment and let me know if this is something you would ever drop $300 on plus the $130 stylist let me know if this is something that you would ever purchase if not I get it but also if so tell me how you're using it and maybe we can share some really cool PDF templates that are more specific about travel and journaling and things like that so catch you in the next one [Music] peace

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Id: xdtM01vjUBc

Length: 13min 15sec (795 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 01 2024