My wife is really interested in one of these devices. Her specific needs I think are:

• easy to take written notes
• easy to transfer written notes to a digital format
• editing documents/making notes on documents
• light weight/easily portable
• iOS app/transfer possible (she is a macbook/iphone user)

She is on the go a lot and many of her meetings are often not the kind of setting where pulling out a laptop to type is easy/convenient.

I'll admit I don't know much about the Apple pencil either. Would it be better to try and steer her to an ipad or ipad min with that? She usually just has a small paper notebook with her so I think she liked the idea of the e-ink because it's not a bright screen and wrote more like paper than a tablet.

Is there a store that would have some of these out where she could try out a display model? Best Buy? (I'll admit I haven't been in one in a Best Buy years)

My father uses a remarkable 2 for his daily work. He has tried the apple pencil in the past an much perfers the writing experience of the remarkable.

Thanks. That's helpful. I think she will probably have a similar reaction.

I bought the Supernote a couple of years ago. It was pretty clunky. I ended up giving it away.

I've had the remarkable two for about 6 months and LOVE it. The writing experience is exactly what I wanted. More paper like than tablet like.

I love sending my notes to text and then to pdf/email. I have also gone the other way and sent a document to remarkable and edited it/taken notes on the document.

I can't recommend the remarkable enough!

How good a job does the remarkable do at deciphering handwriting? I really really want one but I have the handwriting of a serial killer - I worry that it won't recognize my scrawl. I dream of taking my stacks of notes and converting them into editable, searchable text.

I've had a Remarkable 2 for almost two years. Best device I've ever bought. I'm a self employed accountant with about 15 clients most of whom own multiple businesses. Each client has a folder and in those folders are some combo of other folders or notebooks for different things we're working on.

Why do I like it so much? It's replaced the 15 legal pads I always had with one device. I don't use the mobile app very much though I do use the Mac desktop app a great deal. With the app I can put PDF docs onto the remarkable. For example I have a meeting with a client to review financials I can put them onto the device with the desktop app then take notes on the pdf like I would a paper copy.

Why do I love it so much? It doesn't ring or ding or make any noise of any kind. I can't text from it and it doesn't get emails. It's a writing tablet. When I need to focus and write notes whether on a call/meeting or just brainstorming I leave the computer and phone in the other room and go write my notes. You can tag pages so I have a system where I write down a task and draw a checkbox by it then tag that page with a tag for "Task" and another for "Client X". Then I go back and work the tasks for that client by filtering on just that client. Nothing gets missed.

Like I said. Best device I've ever bought.

jenn96 said:

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How good a job does the remarkable do at deciphering handwriting? I really really want one but I have the handwriting of a serial killer - I worry that it won't recognize my scrawl. I dream of taking my stacks of notes and converting them into editable, searchable text.

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The text conversion is so-so. My writing isn't great either but it does reasonably well and figuring out what I wrote. What it doesn't do is layout out what it translates the sale way I wrote it. So a list doesn't always come out as a list, sometimes lines are mashed together. Do know I don't use that feature often so it may be I just don't know what I'm doing with it.

I've been a guinea pig for the Kindle Scribe because I wanted something I could travel with as my note taking tablet and reader.

Out of the gate, the writing process is very straight forward and similar to writing on paper. From what I can gather, the feature set is not near as robust as the Remarkable, although they've provided a couple incremental updates to improve things.

I don't know that it will ever get quite as good as some of the competition from a feature standpoint, as it's likely hampered by having to run on Kindle OS, but it gets the job done for me.

I just need a place to put my notes (and like Loyal Ag) I have dozens of different accounts and dozens of deals within those accounts, so having sub-folders to organize everything is awesome.

Thanks everyone. This is really helpful

One of my teammates was raving about her Remarkable 2 the other day so I looked it up. She got the marker with a built in eraser and the leather book folio cover which comes out to $600.

I know you don't have to get their marker and could get a 3rd party cover, but I have a hard time justifying that cost for a single function device.

Mogilla said:

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One of my teammates was raving about her Remarkable 2 the other day so I looked it up. She got the marker with a built in eraser and the leather book folio cover which comes out to $600.

I know you don't have to get their marker and could get a 3rd party cover, but I have a hard time justifying that cost for a single function device.

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I get that completely. For me I wanted a single function device. I get A LOT of texts and emails and phone calls so using even an iPad as a note taking device means I can block those things out when I need to concentrate. A few years ago I tried to get to a computer and phone only and I was miserable. Now I have a computer, phone, remarkable and kindle and I find I'm a lot more focused on whatever I'm doing in the moment. Separating tasks into different devices and no longer doing TexAgs on my computer has combined to make me much more time efficient than I used to be. Cost be damned productivity is my #1 and from that perspective I like where I'm at.

The remarkable2 is still the best device out there. I feel like the Kindle Scribe could get there in a couple of generations but as of now it just doesn't have the features and you are stuck in the amazon eco system.

That said once you get the remarkable2, the pen (which is wildly sold separately) and the type case it's price is $630. Which is a lot for a device with only one real purpose of taking notes. So I'd at least look into getting an ipad with apple pencil. I got an apple pencil and it was a lot better than I thought it would be to write with. It doesn't detect your hand resting on it when writing and has a decent pencil to paper feel when writing. What you lose in note taking quality from the remarkable2 with an ipad you may find worth it in having a full tablet. The apple store has the pens on display you can try out and see if you like them.

I have the remarkable 2 and love it. I bought an aftermarket pen. It works but not at the level of their marker. My only complaint is that I carry a ton of large PDFs. Their system can get overwhelmed by a 12MB PDF. It starts to lag.

FWIW, I have used a Samsung Galaxy Tab S7+ the last few years and loved it. The magnetically attached (and included!) stylus is more pleasant than the Pencil for apple (in my humble opinion).

Several good note-taking apps. Others make a good point about a singular purpose for such a device, and I get it. I've just enjoyed using it for work regarding notes, and then travel for movies/media/etc.

The Remarkable seems a cool option. Just expensive for single use.

I have a Rocketbook which I've noticed nobody has mentioned. Curious to know everyone's thoughts on it.

I haven't used it's main function of being able to scan a page as much as I thought I would, in fact I haven't used it at all. I just write on it and then wipe the pages. Guess I tend to only write down things I only temporarily need.

Drawkcab said:

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I have a Rocketbook which I've noticed nobody has mentioned. Curious to know everyone's thoughts on it.

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The Rocketbook is not e-ink, which is what the OP asked about.

I see the "remarkable" has a keyboard option. Assume you save the notes to the remarkable. How much memory? Port for flash drives?

How do you move notes to computer?
What format are they saved in?
Bluetooth?
Is this Apple only or also Windows friendly?

I only spent a small amount of time on their website and didn't see answers-if they are there just tell me and I'll harder.

Thanks

IslandAg76 said:

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I see the "remarkable" has a keyboard option. Assume you save the notes to the remarkable. How much memory? Port for flash drives?

How do you move notes to computer?
What format are they saved in?
Bluetooth?
Is this Apple only or also Windows friendly?

I only spent a small amount of time on their website and didn't see answers-if they are there just tell me and I'll harder.

Thanks

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Haven't tried the keyboard and probably won't. Not really what I'm using it for.

No ports.

Remarkable connects to their cloud via WiFi. There's desktop and mobile apps that sync with the device both ways so it syncs notes from the device and syncs things you put in the app to the device.

Every page is a pdf.

Thanks

My coworker has the remarkable 2 and loves it. He sold me so I went to buy one, saw the price, said nope and went back to either taking my computer to meetings for notes or a note pad.

We had a lot of apple gift cards so bought an iPad to use around the house and when traveling, been thinking of taking it to work and testing it out for notes.

I tried an early version of some of those devices, and I wouldn't always get everything I wrote.

I now use a moleskine smart notebook.

The transcription feature works pretty well, and I like having a hard copy back up.

just as an update, the Scribe released their 3rd software update, which includes the ability to export your notebooks with OCR to email. I've played with it a little bit and it does a pretty darn good job, considering my chicken scratch.

They also have the ability to copy and paste block of text around the document. I haven't had a huge need for this, but I tried it out and it works pretty well.

One thing I will say is that Amazon isn't screwing around with this product. They appear to be listening to users and have done a really impressive job of releasing new features in a short period of time. I could argue that they could have just waited and had this all ready for the initial release, but I'm glad to have had this thing since November.

Any of yall happen to hate the reMarkable 2 and want to sell it? I have been wanting one for ages but just can't stomach the full brand new price for one. And I am an idiot normally when it comes to impulse tech buying but this one is rough. $660 for the full package I want. And I already own an iPad which makes it even harder for me justify. Ugh. I have a love/hate relationship with tech...