Remarkable 2 Review 

As a business executive, I just bought one, and for the pure organizational structure, it saves my life. No more sticky notes, missing notebooks, and running out of room. So happy with this thing!!

I feel like this meant for people who want to go paperless. Its basically a never ending notebook.

As a Therapist I've been following the company for a while looking for better ways to take notes, brainstorm ideas for clients, books and classes. Thank you for the review, paper is my muse and I hate keeping up with notebooks worrying about privacy and as a mental health professional/with ADHD using something without distractions and blue light I think is absolutely wonderful.

As a teacher (one who sketches, btw), I'd love all my students to have one of these. My kid has one and the remarkable so superior to carrying around a big, bulky binder and yet it doesn't go on the internet, which can be way too tempting when a student is working on a laptop. I also want my students to take notes by hand because the science shows it's much better for their comprehension and memory. And as for the limits for artists - who cares? Think of it as an electronic sketchbook. Artists don't carry around paintboxes and easels with them everywhere they go, they carry sketchbooks, so this is a perfect all-in-one student binder and sketch pad.

Speaking as a person who has received his. This device isn't used to sketch specifically, more geared towards note-taking, however a mangaka would have a field day with this thing. I cannot describe how amazingly useful this is in my studies, considering how this year has been all my classes are digital and I won't lie, my eyesight has been ruined to the point where I need new glasses. This device has been a crucial support for me as my eyes no longer suffer and I can write all of my work on it too. The price may be a little too high but personally speaking, no price is too high for preserving my eyesight along with offering me a new and unique way of doing my work.

This kind of e ink is useable in full sun, that’s a big plus

I appreciate this review, particularly you being comfortable walking the line between praising how good it feels doing what it was built for and admitting that it was built for something other than what your audience wants.

In addition to note-taking and sketching, it is also really amazing for people in academia who need to read a lot of papers in pdf format. The cloud storage makes it so convenient. Get it for your eyes if you have the budget.

maybe its me, but for some reason the more i keep looking at this, i feel like i can turn a page on it

Ok I want this

I've had an eye on this product for stoyboarding film ideas? Anyone have thoughts on how this might do with that? My favorite part about storyboard is the natural raw experience of throwing your ideas onto "paper" before they go into further stages of production, so I'm curious if this is the perfect item for me, or if it's something I'd buy because of the novelty of it, then resort back to note taking on an iPad or phone after a couple months.

For someone who loves to DM D&D games this looks amazing. Great way to take my dm notes on and plan out various game aspects and even draw simple maps and such in the midst of my notes. I can also upload the character sheet PDF's to keep track of my characters and NPCs just as I would with paper and pencil character sheets. No more hauling multiple notebooks and worrying about damaging paper sheets. This will do exactly as I need it to do!

I've had the gen1 Remarkable since launch, and it is still one my favorite things that I own! I draw on it every day, and have created thousands of pages of sketches and doodles and notes on it. Sure it's kind of a one trick pony, but it's the one trick that I use the most. Thanks for doing this review of the second gen! I haven't picked one up yet because I'm still happy with the first one.

You don’t sign “Brad Cowboy”? My reality is shattered.

It does have apps you can use/download. I love the simplicity of it as a reader and writer. Zero distractions are a god send in comparison to all the pop-ups, notifications, social media etc.. you get with many other tablets.

From my own thoughts and from many comments preceeding mine, I feel like this is a great tablet for general text notes, quick illustrations (as proof of concpet perhaps), mind maps, and other graphically simple and quick needs. Not so much for more professional final draft illustrations or long term storage of more complex in depth information. While I wouldn't try to run a full blog off of it exclusively, I would rough draft blog posts, promotional ideas, monetization strategies etc. For myself I will probably save money to buy one and get a lot of use out of it. It actually low-key excites me! Thanks so much for this review! And happy New Year!

It's been so long since I've written or drawn on paper, I'm not sure I'd recognize my own handwriting anymore.

That would be an amazing student device especially for the young with drawing, ebooks, and pdf being its only use.

I like your honesty when talking about the product. Feels really genuine to me and gives me valuable information without having to buy the product just to check it out. Thanks for your content!

I ordered one for myself. Very excited and waiting patiently to get my hands on it.

I honestly really want one, but I can't get past the price tag

Finally you had a look at it! I think it's so interesting. Could see a looooot of students benefitting from this once the price comes down

Honestly this is the best review video of a product I ever watched. Thank you

Extremely helpful and some great tips and tricks I was not aware of from prior investigations. I have had my eye on one of these for months now but have been hesitant to pull the trigger. I did purchase one last night and will arrive in the coming days. I am very excited to give it try... Thank you for this great video...

I dont think this tablet should be used for drawing. It's more focused on note taking for people who can't look at a digital screen for a long time.

I think the product is perfect for me and anyone who wants to avoid further (blue) light pollution, if you just want to sketch all day and keep a handwritten diary, this seems like a solid choice.

I'd think of it more like the Exec Kindle Pro, and on that it is amazing. Being able to really take notes on every document (like real notes, not those clumsy things in kindle), and to also have an infinite notebook, is priceless.

Great review! I use my iPad, but I have friends who love this product for note taking.

WOW, you just really saved me. I noticed my marker has been slowly -- almost imperceptibly wearing. I had no idea there were more marker tips in the pen box and after watching your video at 2:00 I rummaged through my trash and found them. Thanks!!

I like the simplicity of this product. It doesn’t try to do everything, it just does a few things and it does them well. Thank you for sharing the video! 😀

I want this for school so…this is #1 on my list of supplies for this semester!!

I WISH I had this in my school days. Carrying so many notebooks for many different lessons throughout the day, plus the heavy books, it irreversibly ruined my back. Having this one lightweight device for taking notes for all the lessons would've made my backpack so much lighter and take so much less space in my room! Not to mention I'd have been able to always look into the notes from previous years to refresh memory on some subjects whenever I wanted instead of keeping dozens of old notebooks in the attic. The only downside is that it is only black&white, if they added colorful highlighters, this would be THE PERFECT paper notebook alternative for school kids and college students.

Thanks Brad! I definitely felt the same for my drawing review, ( I'm on the remarkable 1 ) but it's very similar. It's so amazing how close it feels like real pencil on paper, very little learning curve!

Finally, a product not so powerful but so expensive that it justifies iPad Pro's price, or even Wacom's.

i love Brad cause he always puts out the price in the beginning of the video

I would love to see a specialised drawing tablet made for pro artists that could function just as well as the Remarkable does. You don't have glaring LEDs, you get the organic paper feeling, and you don't have to worry about other applications because it only runs its own drawing programme. However I would like to add a colour palette to it so that it's not all black and white. It would also be cool if you could import brushes into it, or import picture files to trace or edit. Anyways, I think it's very possible to bring out this kind of technology. I'm hoping it happens soon.

The only real benefit to me is that it forces me off of youtube and onto my task at hand... But I guess paper does the same thing.

As a recovering note hoarder, I need this! I love to write, note take, and journal...my how I wish I had this in pharmacy school!!!

I needed this in school!!! I studied software engineering, so it was largely on computer, but we still had many subject that you kind of need pen and notebook to do all the calculations and maybe take some notes. Overall, notes are just so much better to take with hand as you can freely "format" it on the paper, and equations are pretty much impossible to do at any reasonable speed. It would have been so easy to just use this instead of paper, and you could actually easily find the stuff you need before the tests.

I’ve been really eyeing this up as it would be the perfect tool for all notes and sharing docs.

I would love this for note-taking! It looks suppeeeer cool and your review was great!

It's pretty pricey, but I think I'm going to get one. I don't sketch much art, but I make a lot of notes and designs in notebooks, it's sometimes difficult to find which note is on which notebook. I think it might be the device to give me that notebook feel with some modern day, digital benefits

Thank you for this super useful review! Just bought the R2 and need to understand how to use it. I have to admit, it was quite expensive (if you also want the pen & cover... which one kind of does)

I ordered this and it came in the mail today. As a writer and an administrative assistant--this sounds so perfect. It doesn't have any distractions and it is a digital notebook. It also said to integrate with cloud services

I’m getting my Remarkable Monday and I’m SO EXCITED!

Oooh awesome, been waiting on this since ur tweet, technology looks like an e reader with a pen, loving slim notebook style of it

Wonderfully comprehensive and honest my dude! Thanks!

I liked this review, explained everything and didn't feel overdone. Good job mate!

I've gotten to the point where I went full circle. I used to take notes on my iPad with the pencil but I wanted more and more for my iPad to feel like paper when I write. Recently I realized that I wanted it to feel like paper so much that I just went back to using paper notebooks for note taking lol. I just scan what I need to save if needed. No issues with pen latency, no issues with texture, no battery. I still use my iPad Pro for digital art of course but it's just interesting to me that we desire things to feel exactly like paper but we don't use paper.

This is the earliest I can get to Brad's vid lmao-

Thanks for the review! I’m going to apply for Law School next year and want this for that! Definitely worried about the price but seems worth it!

Man, I absolutely love this review! Thanks!

Can’t wait to see Amazon’s Kindle take on this one

Got one - love it! Wont save money, but I will save paper while doodling and taking small notes.

Excellent review. I'm getting one. I love the text converter so much !

Just bought one. I don’t want to lose THE important notes for my client meeting anymore. 2nd day, so far loving it.

I got mine a few days ago and its excelent specially reading epubs and also pdfs and the writing experience while reading is amazing. I know kobo got the light etc but not having that “glass” to write is really like paper on remarkable

Nice review. Thank you for the info. I'm struggling with the price tag (like other commenters here) as I'm just not sure how much I want it vs. how much I truly have a use for it.

Thank you for your perspective. Going through possibly two reams of paper per week and needing to scan for folder placement / recovery. having two colleagues use one and watching your review; I have ordered a reMarkable2

I switched to the rM2 from my rM1 and I have to say I am quite pleased with it. They made it much more responsive and functional with updates than it was at launch.

I'm an architect, and I sketch on this pad. I love it. My husband has also uploaded all his ebooks. The Kindle proprietary files are funky to convert to ebook.

This is ahead of its time. Imagine one day when the world has no paper.

Thanks for the review. Helps a lot to decide whether this is worth buying or not for the reasons I may need it.

I bought the remarkable 1 after the 2 came out. I really like it. I think e-ink should become more mainstream, not just for tablets, but for all computing. It's so much nicer to look at and work on a screen that isn't constantly blaring bright lights into your eyeballs.

The ability to hold 100 000 pages is what sold the product to me. Great video.

As a writer, I'm very eager for my order of this tablet to arrive. I enjoy working on writing projects by hand - every part that I don't absolutely have to do on computer. This sounds like it'll be perfect.

i have a question. if I have a pdf file in my Google drive, is it possible for me to use this device and open the file and edit it ? I'm learning a new language and the textbook is a pdf file and I just use my iPad to edit it.. but I have to open the file with 'Notes' in order for me to write on it.. so I was wondering if I buy remarkable would I be able to write on my e textbook ?

As a mathematician, I can see the potential of it for this field 🤩 thanks for the awesome review!

Merci beaucoup pour votre retour : quand on zoom dans un dessin, est ce infini comme le vectoriel (peut on dessiner de manière TRÈS détaillée)?

This is also a fairly expensive (I say "fairly" since there's probably nothing out there right now that's close to the writing/sketching experience) notetaking device. I can imagine there are people who love to flowchart/diagram/mindmap their thoughts or do project planning and bullet journaling - these people, assuming they're rich, might love this.

Thank you for the review! I do have a question for you. I am going to start college again in September, and I am looking for a digital notepad to actually write my notes and homework on without needing to use many different paper notebooks. I am in no way an artist and I purely want to use this as my one and only notebook. Do you recommend it for me?

can you bookmark specific pages for easy access or nah? this might be something i need

My biggest issue is the "your notes are ours and dont dare unsubscrubsribe from us or else" mentality.

i got an ad for it at the beginning of the video and i didn't even realise the video hadn't started yet

This is actually a great review :) I was just looking for an alternative to the DOZEN of Amazon Choice notepads all over my desk. I don't draw lol I take notes while doing online demos of software. And this sounds perfect for that.

I’d like to see them come out with an A5 size in addition to the Letter. For school I loved the versatility of my iPad (although first gen Pencil did need a redesign), however for work I like having a small notebook to work on. I love using fountain pens but I can see how it would be useful to have something searchable.

I was wondering how maybe the drawings could be ported to other drawing/painting programs/platforms. Maybe there's a workflow for storyboard artists.

I've been very intrigued by this device for such a long time, and it really seems like an awesome product for studying, reading and note taking, but the price...

Thanks from Brasil...you really helped me to think about this product.😊

Thank you very much for your honest review

Hey Brad love your vids, would you do a Kamvas 16 (2021) Vs XP pen innovator 16? Would love to see a comparison by you.

can someone recommend me something pretty exactly like that, but with the possibility to change the colour of your pen? I would like to use it for school and therefore i really need colours.

Just got one. Love it!

I'm looking at it to use for notes while studying and such. Being in IT a have to refresh for certifications, I also want to use it as a reader for various books be it enjoyment or study. I'm glad it seems to be getting a lot of positive reviews.

Great review! I have it down between this and the Supernote A5X. I need to cut down on screen time because of photosensitivity related to epilepsy. I am an artist and a graphic designer who wants to decrease backlit screen time and design and move toward more toward art making. I’m kind of intrigued by the idea of using it as a sketchbook to keep my drawing skills honed, blind contour practice, map out compositions, quick ideas etc., etc. Also running out of sketchbook space. I do love writing AND my kobo is about to die... so seemed like a good time to try!

I tried mine for a week and returned it -- to be upfront, I use Notability on my iPad with Apple Pencil and it is so much better for what I use it for -- but most importantly, I thought I might enjoy this for journaling and for my day planner -- well, boy was that wrong! The Day Planner I imported that I use was 215 pages of PDF -- it is impossible to bookmark any pages with the RM2 so the really really slow scrolling through the planner made it unusable. I LOVE the paper feel, but that was about it. It is pretty good for just keeping a diary -- but again, going back to find anything without being able to bookmark individual pages made it a chore and really hard to use. It would be great for someone who just keeps a lot of one or two page notes -- say keeping notes in a meeting --- but therein also lies the rub -- when I go to a meeting, I not only need to take notes, but I need to be able to access emails, look up contacts to share with folks in the meetings, and sometimes even message or look at media while meeting - none of which are possible here. If you get used to how fast, how well organized an iPad is, you will really have difficulty with the RM2 and how slow it is and how near impossible it is to flip back and forth easily and quickly in notebooks. Maybe someday that will be improved and zippier, and that day, I will get the next version so I can journal and keep my day planner -- for now, its a no go.

I got remarkable 2 recently but it went suddenly in sleeping mode and press button does not work. I charged up too , but it didnt help. Can you maybe help what to do? I did not get any answer for customer service yet

Dude I love this even more now!!

I wonder if there's a search function that works with the handwriting to text software. Being able to search notes would be a huge advantage over paper!

I love to journal, I have tons of them and am running out of space to store them. The draw for me to this is to have multiple journals all in one place without the storage issues.

I've got one that i use for work, and it's a good notepad replacement. Usually i'd go trough about 100-250 sheets a month for sketching, notes etc, and this makes it a lot easier, with the service that's provided you can also email selected pages, there is a handwriting to text (needs an internet connection) etc. Most important for me, i can sort pages, set up a sketch basis for engineering projects, duplicate it, have several layers on top with different ideas/ways to work things out etc. Also, per project notebooks, adding marks to PDF files, exporting those makes it a lot easier in communcation with clients. So, not for artists, not for engineering, but it saves a ton of paper because it's a very good sketchpad.

brad, few questions. does it allow you to turn your notes to text and does it learn your hand writing? if you have text and you sketch on a page and convert it to text do you loose your drawings? how compatible is it with windows? thanks T

I wonder why you haven't got your hands on the Lenovo duet. 1st ever Chromebook tablet

People only buy these devices for the writing,that’s what I hate with these reveiws, you don’t know what people really want! Also, we want these because they have so little. No notifications, no other distractions! This is the perfect device for writing and editing.

A never ending notebook. I want this!!! As an author this would be great for outlining my stories.

I'm an engineer wanting to launch a new company in 2 years, my job now has me traveling a lot, and whenever I'm waiting in an airport I just think of my products and ways of improving them, if it's taking notes or making basic sketches, I love this thing

depending on how long this can last it seems like good value for something that could be handed down for years

The one tiny thing that's missing from this is color. I like to highlight and change colors a lot when I write and read and underline. It pops out more for me.

This is great for a writer like me. I have lots of journals and they pile up over the years. I think this will help me a lot. Is the storage good for keeping lots of notes?

The reason I use it is that it keeps my pages nice (since there are no pages) and the black and white of e-ink means my lines stay bold and don't look grainy when I move to the next stage in my work. I can also select and resize something rather than having to erase good work if I accidentally put it at the wrong angle or size etc. Using this device I can create mostly finished line work without the inking and cleaning up stages I'd otherwise need to do. But yeah if your process as an artist doesn't look like mine you probably don't need it.