Unboxing the reMarkable 2: The Future of Paper 

It's everywhere, every time all at once 😅

Seriously. Even popping up in airports .. there’s some big boy money behind this

because they know the average person would rather just spend a little more and get a 10th gen iPad that has 100x the features

All that marketing money and no backlighting for night time use or kindle ebook support.

They know that there time is short for this old model due to all the major improvements of other newer eink tablets. They are trying to capitalize on Christmas while they can in light of the attention of the better devices that came out.

Can you tell us the process in case this happens to other users including myself so we can do the same thing

Yeah! I dropped my remarkable into water and it broke. They sold me a refurbished remarkable for 130€ in exchange of the broken one. They seem to do this with all cases that aren't covered by warranty and that's absolutely amazing. Imagine apple selling you an iPad for a third of the list price if you destroyed yours.

I lost my eraser and bought a new one for 10 cents

@@GorgonnogroG I just made a support ticket and told the truth lol

I lost my eraser and they gave me property in Italy instead.

Good luck to your wife in dental school! It truly can be hell on earth! I'm glad she has someone supporting her! We all need it!

@@milenpatel still not enough to warrant the cost of what it actually is, imo.

As it way to expensive, especially here in South-Africa. Ome can only dream having this for your undergrad studies.

Did you buy her one in the end?

In Europe it's 350 euro without the pen, smh.

yeaah , then what happened to those poor student person who love it but can't buy in their price range :( bye bye this loving future tech :(

I think I will stick to normal pen and paper, thank you very much. Oh wait no, I take notes on my laptop anyways. Lmao.

Wait it doesn’t come with a pen?? How’s that make sense if that’s the main way to use it????

Where on Earth did you look? I got everything off their official site and my pen was only $50 for the one with the eraser! I'm in the US if that makes a difference, I bought mine close to their initial launch of the 2 a few years ago. Try again during the holidays, maybe? Also, yes it is a bit of an initial investment but I promise you the price evens out. Never having to buy any more paper or notebooks is the best feeling ever. I have no paper in my room except for the mail that comes in. Everything saves automatically to their cloud and even if you have to get a whole new notebook, like I had to, all your files remain in their cloud and are still accessible on the new device. I only had to get a new one because it fell out of my backpack and landed right on the power button/ permanently pushed it in. It wasn't any issue on their end. My stupid backpack strap got stuck on my parking brake when I was exiting my vehicle and yanked it to the ground. I annoyingly didn't notice the strap was stuck until it was too late. I literally never go anywhere without my ReMarkable 2, it is the best thing I ever invested in and I can't live without it. I got a different backpack/ briefcase/ purse combo that fits the size of my ReMarkable 2 perfectly, so I don't have to worry about having that issue recreated. What he didn't show is that you can highlight as well as change what tool you are writing with. It literally has a calligraphy pen, marker, mechanical pencil, ballpoint pen, fine liner, regular pencil, and paintbrush. You can change the size of each to small, medium, or large. As well as the color to black, gray, and white. You can see the colors in the cloud version of the notebooks. Also, you can create notebooks, folders, and quick sheets. You can tag items, and send files to your email. When you create notebooks you can name them and have it default to either the last page visited, or the first page of the notebook when you click on it. Also, there are SO MANY TEMPLATES for the notebooks: grids, planners, perspective pages, music pages, bass tab charts, guitar chord charts, piano sheet music in varying sizes, dot pages, day planners, checklists, storyboard pages, etc. I swear it is worth it. I have a friend who has one as well and she tells everyone about hers also, they are in fact ReMarkable 😂

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Can you use a template and just fill it in for your orders?

@@dawnjackson6741 Yes and no. You'll need to put your custom template for each page manually. This is the only bad thing. But if you choose a template from remarkable, it'll stay for each pages.

@@dawnjackson6741 Great point because so many contractors write contracts, details that fade or cannot be read. I have a friend in a lawsuit with a large contractor and one of the reasons that they cannot prove their case against her is that they cannot read their own writing.

@@dawnjackson6741yes. I use custom templates all the time

Please talk about the writing experience. I bought and returned the Boox Note Air 3C (eating $100 in the process) because the writing felt like using a dry erase marker pen with a surface that is just a bit rougher. Supposedly, the Supernote is far more paper-like. But I was going to look at the Remarkable as well.

I got mine a week ago and I'm addicted!! Can't put it down. Love that I can read novels while leaving page notes and Highlight. Love❤

it is already 3 years old??? then it IS old indeed

it can always be hacked .

But couldn't you just take pictures of your written notes, then use Google lens to make the text searchable and saveable?

You can change the pen type.

Merry Christmas !

try a real pencil

got to save things for Remarkable 3/4/5+

I'm thinking on getting one for reading. Is there a way to be able to read books bought in Apple Books ir Play Books (Google books store)?

How is the speed of the tablet? I got the Onyx Note Air and it took a bit to load up.

I used to take notes on ipad But got bored and started using paper once again

​@@paulsalomait's not as fast as paper notebook, of course. Nothing will beat speed of page flipping through a paper book on one side of your desk and paper notebook on other side of your desk. However it's fast enough when considering you can mark up an epub or PDF, export the notes to pdf, and it's backed up and instantly available on all your devices. Or your handwritten pure notes (not pdf or epub markups) are automatically backed up on close to pdf and if you use syncthing sent wherever you want. As someone that lost years of journals to hurricane damage, that peace of mind is immeasurably valuable. Not to mention with the onyx boox, you can have a couple thousand books on hand. I chew through books like a rat through cheese so if I went on a trip with paperbacks I'd have to fill my bag with books. No fun.

I wanted to go paperless, and actually have been for some time, but I'm over the awful apps for note taking. My favorite one GoodNotes barely doing updates while charging for a full new app version and is ultimately transitioning to a subscription model. I shouldn't have to paper a subscription for a virtual notebook. It's ridiculous.

You gotta get one of those 'portable' battery chargers is all?

should not be needed@@SuperHaven7

no u dont, it comes with a charger and once u charge it to 100%, itll last for a pretty long time@@SuperHaven7

battery life has been great on mine, maybe i'm not the most frequent user but i can usually go at least a week without needing to charge with like 2-3 hour daily use. and the fact that it takes USB - C is great

Battery life? I go weeks without charging mine.

nah, it's not wroth 350 euros, I'd buy a tablet that does 10x more than this thing and for 10-20% cheaper price.

​@@XDark187different market. Not supposed to be an ipad

@@XDark187 for what it is it is underpriced even.

So their whole idea on selling this product is to sell you the concept of discipline? Of course people are going to use it because people paid a significant amount of money just to own it, it helps people justify it when in reality its a bad deal, a 300 page journal and a pen can last a year with just a fraction of the price that this thing is on, and modern tablets has focused features or can be calibrated to be more productive focused if a person really has to. If this industry can somehow cater to creative professionals instead of the average joe taking notes like what Display tablets did back in the 2010s then it'll be really profitable instead of selling something that is imaginary.

@@makibo.mp4 more towards the connection and simplicity of it, ability to use it as a presenting tablet, etc... When you’re traveling and only have limited space but still have all your notes you could ever want. It worked well in school for me since even the most strict professors would allow it. I use it everyday still, perhaps it’s not for everyone but I definitely have gotten my moneys worth out of mine.

So you don't have one but it's perfect?

except the price lmaooo

@@WizardWorkDesigns oh yeah! Amen to that!!! 👍

@@Azad89 I don't 😔

@@divinusfilius3771 How do you know it's perfect then? Or are you a Remarkable exec

Whats the storage

how much?

@@ahmadbitarbio here in Europe it's 350 euro. Outrageous.

Hello, would you be able to tell me if it has any lines on the "paper?"....don't you kinda need/want lines so you can write straight and neat and stuff...

It has lines. Big space, or small space... it has lines..@@SuperHaven7

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Is it possible to import a PDF or Word, annotate it and transform note-taking into computer writing?

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But it doesn’t even have basic colors lmao

Tell me can you then download/sign the documents from email? i.e I get a contract sent and then. Just brought an ipad 10th gen for basically this (signing contracts/sending them to be signed) but it doesnt have a docusign feature does it?

@@sterlingarnet1878 no it doesn't have a DocuSign feature. Essentially you would need to plug it into your PC and drag and drop or use their cloud service. Then you would physically sign the document and then drop it back into your PC. Lots of steps, yes, but when I was in the auto industry the signatures on the remarkable didn't count as esignitures. The docs were accepted as "inked".

@@lor7780 I totally get what you mean. The thing is, it was never marketed to compete with laptops, iPads, smart phones or other "e readers" for that matter. There's a large population of people who are still pretty analog and love the write on paper. This is an alternative (albeit still "archaic" in comparison to what other tablets can do).

this channel has been bot farming for years now. Penguinz0 (MoistCritical) pointed it out. Look at these comments too. Half of them are written like chatGPT 2.0 wrote them and the others are blatant marketing material. One literally says "I 100% recommend this, it brings peace of thought to you, it writes" no one talks like that

They need to sell v2 before they announce v3

I think its a nice product i would 100% get one but the price point is not "Remarkable" 😂 I WAY prefer getting a ipad with a paper screen protector and a apple pen as i can do way more stuff for about the same amount of money... Maybe they didn't sell well because of that...

That is really strange to me seeing so many reviews about 2y old product. I've been holding off to make eink note taker until there is next generation of them coming out like remarkable 3 or supernote to make a decision.

I bought one two years ago, it's totally overpriced for what it is. Hand writing to text requires Internet access and it's SO VERY SLOW. Document and screen share on Mac rarely works. I only use it to take notes, and those notes rarely make it out of the device successfully.

just get an ipad air

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That's exactly what's not to do! I absolutely hate writing on my iPad. The palm-detection is good, but with the reflective glas-display getting full of marks, palm- and fingerprints it is the absolute worst. Guess you never experienced the moment, when you just want to focus on taking notes only to be interrupted by constant mails flying in. (Yes, focus-mode exists but it's still not the same). With the remarkable it's just like having an infinitely large sheet of paper in front of you. And that's exactly the charm of it. So No! Don't just get an iPad...@@inspire1ove

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@jeffk3368 what product would you reccomend for tablets reading sheet music along with foot pedals.

it's so expensive for an e-ink, you're better off buying a regular tablet.

​@@XDark187these devices last a lot longer. After two years iPad/Samsung just slow down and it's damn annoying along with their ped it's not as smooth and you going outside of writing is annoying. Less is more.

@Trendnet18 Sorry. What exactly do you mean by "slow down"? I am using iPad Pro 11-inch - 2nd generation since its release in 2020 so more than 3,5 years without any issue, hickups or slow down, and it is my daily device for consuming media. The same is for iPad Mini 6 which my son is using daily and my wife's iPad Air 4 from 2020. I am not sure about Samsung as my last Android phone was indeed Samsung Galaxy S3 - which has such behaviour, but it was because of Android at that time. As for this device Remarkable 2 it is clean and perfect for its specific purpose, but it might be expensive for some customers who want such device.

it has sheet music templates actually

What about collaborating on documents? How painless is that? and if I want to drop images into my notes can I just paste images into my notes?

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I HIGHLY recommend it!! I have several disabilities. I'm 100% legally blind without my glasses so I understand the eye strain issue. I have many previous injuries such as Carpal Tunnel but was severely re-injured at my last job. I developed really terrible Tendonitis to the point where my hands swell and I've woken up crying because of how much pain I'm in some days. To name just a few of my issues, I also used to get headaches/ migraines frequently and am at a computer 24/7. This has helped me out so much when my eyes are in too much pain I'll take a break from my computer to write on my ReMarkable 2. It's so light that even I can and do carry it with me everywhere. I literally got a backpack/ purse specifically a certain size so that it can fit my ReMarkable2. I never go anywhere without it, my Kindle, my phone, and my wrist braces and inhaler, of course. I even keep it right next to my bed in case writing inspiration hits. When you create notebooks there are so many different types of page templates to save you time and effort too that it makes things easier for people who's hands tire out due to injuries as well. They have dot pages, grids, music sheets, guitar tab pages, perspective pages for drawing, hexagon grids, daily planners, checklist pages, and so many more. The lines and everything are pre-done for you so you can quickly fill everything in. Also, everything instantly saves to the cloud, and even if you get a new notebook, which I've had to because I accidentally dropped my 1st one on the power button, all your files instantly are still in the new one. They transfer so you lose nothing! I have a Kindle too which also has an E-ink display but I use my ReMarkable even as a backup for that. Because you can zoom so far into the text, it's phenomenal. You can also take notes on the files you have on it and highlight things too. You can even sign documents too! If I could list all the benefits of it and the great things it can do, I could write quite a few pages worth lol

Same. I have a Galaxy Tab with the S pen because I take notes *right on* the slides that the professor puts on Blackboard, because it's all in one place, and the Samsung Notes syncs right with my phone. I like the fact that it's frictionless writing, and it's the reason why I ditched paper to begin with as I have carpal tunnel and other hand problems. And COLOR. I really like to use, and need 3+ different colors and highlighters when I'm writing my notes. And I got the tablet for like $150 Canadian or something cheap like that.

Remarkable 2 has better screen (more white, better contrast), better build quality, feels better to write on. It is also thinner. Why would you prefer Supernote? Did you try both?

@@EvzenEmanuelThe 2 year-old Remarkable with 8 gigs of ram and hardly any significant software feature updates over the years. New Supernote came out with 300 ppi, replicable battery, improved tech, and their remarkable business model that Remarkable can’t compete with. Plus, not to mention all the better epaper devices that came out since the Remarkable. They simply need to update the Remarkable and are probably working on it.

Supernote is just a better product and costs less. Better company too

@@TheRealTommyR it’s an electronic notepad. How many updates do you need? Did you get mad that your wide-ruled spiral notebook didn’t get an update either? 😂🤣

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Etsy has lasercut adhesive stickers that can be applied to achieve that functionality

I've gotten more us8ng the Kindle Scribe compared to the remarkable.

Kijiji always had ppl unloading them for fraction price

Was just thinking.. wasn’t this released like 3 years ago? Also… this video is remarkably.. ha… quiet. The channel seems to have changed a lot

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Like what?

Bought it for my girlfriend this Christmas, so hope 3 doesn't come out soon 😬

What is it missing? Apart for backlight

@@abeining look at Supernote A6X2 for about same price and many more features

It's gotten way better at OCR

@@vladikostek glad to hear. If it could chuck my notes into Notion for me, then we’re talking

It feels mostly the same, but everything is a product placement. Feels as a result, he's being less critical

the stylus tip is a softer material than the screen. the tips wear and need to be replaced, the screen stays rough. they say alcohol will ruin the finish I haven't wanted to test that when cleaning mine so I use a damp cloth

I write about 70 pages of notes per week after buying mine used on ebay in May 2022. The screen still feels great to write on. I've noticed when it starts to feel a bit more slippery, I need to clean it. It's probably not as nice as it was when it was new, but it's held up really well.

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I have one for almost 3yrs, 2.5k pages and counting, screen is same, just a couple of small scratches from bumps. The tips I change monthly

Unfortunately for that pricing strategy is that the E-Ink company has a monopoly on this screen technology and charges a fortune for them, so that sort of price isn’t financially possible.Remarkable did have more of a subscription model previously and it was universally despised

Few people wanted to pay subscription fees, that's why they dropped the price on the subscription last year. The subscription paywall for features was one of the most frequent complaints about the product. I think $300 is fair for these, the accessories are super overpriced though. The Scribe can be had for sub $300 on sale, but isn't as good of a notebook as the RM is.

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big money, they paid big money for this review...

I am holding off since it is 2y old device that they will introduce next generation and also improve sync capability not to be fully dependent on their servers for keeping my notes

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There’s only one thing that feels like paper and that’s paper. I have Paperlike on my iPad and a Huion pen tablet with etched glass. Both offer a good drawing experience but neither one feels like paper.

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The battery is insane on that thing. One charge and you can use it for weeks without having to recharge it.

Depending on the daily workload, the battery last 2 weeks@@stepanovicboro . with an iPad when you are not using it for a week (unplugged), battery is death without using it. The standby current on this unit is like almost zero.

Hahahaha!!

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Because all the e-waste and excessive mining for electronics is so much better than recycling paper lmao

@@user-tb2uz5mu8l It's not like those paper get recylced all the time (most of them are just thrown away as a trash & then get burnt later on), & there's no need for e-waste when you can use a decent version of these (which'll come out soon) for multiple generations if kept properly.

They do lol, over 4k levels of it

Did a review of it if you wanna see

it doesnt lag but it is a bit slow sometimes

It’s an e-ink screen so the refresh rate is not at all comparable to something like an iPad and you do have to wait a half second when you make a gesture/swipe. Having said that, there’s little to no noticeable lag when writing, it somehow just feels like you’re putting pen to paper

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Adds up, I had stacks of yellow legal pads, I’d recommend these, especially if you’re always moving around or traveling