Finally. Professional Paper. - reMarkable Paper Pro

[@GZuid_mannetje]

It's a device for academia. Reading research papers is very pleasant on the Remarkable. Taking notes and storing them in a designated folder is a game changer compared to using multiple notepads which eventually fall apart and get thrown away, the ability to erase a note instead of flipping to a new page, and the ability to share the notes with peers is just amazing. Yes one can do all this with an iPad pro, but that just doesn't have the feel and doesn't take away the eye strain like a dedicated e-ink writing tablet.

[@GalacticStarForge42]

I’d totally have gone for this device, I’m doing an engineering major in college so it’s pretty much all math or science classes where you need to do handwritten notes. Got an iPad in. It has worked great for that with Goodnotes and the Apple Pencil second generation, but I really need the paper like screen protector to make it sort of feel like paper otherwise my hand sticks to the screen too. I just wanted color for textbooks so I won’t the iPad, but it looks like a good alternative

[@bakedbeings]

@@GalacticStarForge42The stickiness thing is a problem artists have too, especially in warmer countries. A light glove with a couple fingers/tips available works great - you can buy cotton gloves and cut off a few tips, or search for "wacom drawing glove" and buy one that won't have you looking quite as homeless.

[@atimholt]

This device looks interesting to me, and I have a vague idea of keeping it in mind for a future purchase, but I just ordered a clamp binder on Amazon, which is a lot cheaper and almost infinitely more versatile for creative use cases. I'd still love this thing as a reader, though-I have an extensive, DRM free ebook library (epubs & pdfs) organized with Calibre (an absolutely stupendous piece of software).

[@yensteel]

My biggest gripe as a is that their syncing functionality is terrible. You have to drag pdfs into the program to upload them, and you can't directly manage it with an OS file system. Using Zotero, Onedrivesync, or Syncthing, you can sync hundreds of pdfs, along with their annotations quite seamlessly on an Android OS. Sadly, the Remarkable isn't oriented towards researchers enough. We pour through up to 100 papers per research topic. Sometimes more. There used to be a community Zotero hack, but it was closed as it revealed a security vulnerability they didn't want to leave open. Still, they should leave the OS open for *some* plugins at least.

[@skiorsnowboard]

Which is so funny to me considering how low the pay is in academia and how expensive this thing is. Everyone I knew in grad school would have scoffed at paying $579 for this.

[@zomian]

This is the most Riley title ever.

[@ComeCaramelos_]

Mi amo Riley (My master Riley)

[@JamesBD05]

Mi amore Riley (My love Riley)

[@HannesRadke]

The title really spoils the jaded tiredness Riley has in store for us here.

[@nagarebushi]

Where can I get his @ ?

[@pastashroom5710]

3:20 riley - "it looks like i'm looking at sand." electronics - "hello! i mean yeah, kinda!"

[@pieceofschmidtgamer]

Anakin: If you're not with me... then you're SSSSAAAAAAAAANNNNNNDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!

[@dustinyoung3069]

All computers are just very carefully organized sand. Everything is difficult until someone comes along and makes it easy.

[@jamesonroy3375]

I've had the remarkable 2 for years and love it. I used to waste so much paper taking notes at my job and it entirely replaced that. As someone who wanted just a paper like experience to write on, it was absolutely worth the hefty price tag

[@RegenTonnenEnte]

What do you mean "waste paper"?? That's the bloody purpose of paper

[@dominikk5705]

Also it is not a sustainability issue if you include the material. So what does waste really mean in this case?

[@oliver-04]

How does someone «waste paper»?

[@DesignThinkerer]

@@oliver-04 use a whole paper sheet just to scribble some notes. I'm doubtful that it's more ecological to use an e-device, even on the long run, but it's easier to be more organized / more pratical

[@pixels_per_inch]

Just write it on your laptop?

[@TheNexusAvenger]

7:29 If it is anything like the previous non-color unit that I got as a hand-me-down, you can operate the device completely without connecting to the internet! I didn't bother connecting to Wi-Fi to see how far it would go. I haven't been prompted to connect to the internet + log in for offline functions, and documents can be imported and exported over USB with a web interface (I didn't even know this was possible). I hope this is still the case with the Paper Pro, because I seriously respect not being forced to be online ever.

[@Batwam0]

If it’s running linux, I’m surprised you can’t just connect it and have it show as an external drive. Unless it’s using a linux filesystem and Windows doesn’t recognise it. Has anyone tried to access the files using a simple file browser (possibly using linux of ext4 drivers on Windows)?

[@Mythricia1988]

@@Batwam0 It's not possible by default, however there are custom firmwares for these devices (well, at least for the older ones), that in theory allows just about any functionality you could imagine. Granted, I never found a need for it, since I was an early adopter on the first version and so I got a lifetime subscribtion for free, so my files just appear where I need them... Which I think is actually so useful, I can see how *not* having that, would be annoying. Then again, these days I almost never access the files outside of the device itself, so eh.

[@TheNexusAvenger]

@@Batwam0 The USB web UI has a bit more going on to manage exporting and importing PDFs. I assume it is because the internal format is not PDFs and they don't want to expose a raw file system with potentially a custom format for easier editting.

[@d.wolfin152]

​@Batwam0 You connect to it directly over a WiFi or usb via IP address with SSH. You are essentially connecting to another computer instead of a usb device. Although it would be nice for a mounting service on it for the documents folder, the local files aren't pdfs so they need to be converted to export them (hence the Web portal instead of a drag and drop mountable drive)

[@Batwam0]

@ yeah, if the native files aren’t readable anyway that makes sense

[@mikithekynd]

It's weird to me that Riley didn't mention all the other cool stuff that's available with reMarkable tablets (all of them), like: - Screen sharing to PC (need to install the reMarkable app on the recipient PC) - Not having to have an account, or connection to the internet, at all. The tablet has a usb-C port and you can connect it to a PC and drag your files straight to the device - Layers in the notes. The background doesn't have to look like a blank sheet, you can turn it into a callendar, line paper, scheduler, whatever. You can even make your own layouts As far as note-taking tablets are concerned (and this is one of them, I don't know why Riley compared it to iPads) I would still pick the reMarkable 2, but if I had more money to spend I'd get this one.

[@minus3dbintheteens60]

He made it sound like the USB port was only for charging

[@Stephen-Jones]

Yeah I was disappointed in the review, I've got the remarkable 2 and I know what features it can do and sad this review covered none of it

[@danbrownlee4400]

That's because Riley knows fuckall about the device before coming on camera to "review" it. He acts like he has never seen, smelt, or touched the unit before his first time at this useless review. How can you know about advanced features if you don't spend any time with it unless the real reviewers think to mention it? If I'm Remarkable, I am demanding a refund for this total and complete waste of their marketing budget.

[@Stephen-Jones]

@@danbrownlee4400 I think it's fine to come into a review as a "new" user, but given they filmed a bit saying about coming back to the subscription and then didn't either film or keep it in the edit and missing off all the menu options while using it (like screen share, layers, different base backgrounds) it feels like only 1/2 a review was done/filmed/edited.

[@Cheese1master]

Guys it's not a review

[@almazingsk8er]

In mid 2024 I spent a month researching e-ink tablets. I wanted something I could read on, take notes, and was portable. SO MANY of these tablets have bs subscriptions or have ads. I landed on the SuperNote Nomad. The price is a little steep, but there are no subscriptions or ads and I love it. I think there may be an option to pay for cloud storage or something but I never use it or have needed to. I love it

[@almazingsk8er]

As I read over this comment, it sounds like an ad. I swear it isn’t lmfao

[@solmare_]

@almazingsk8er I'll second this, the Supernote ecosystem doesn't force you to buy into a subscription or force you to use a specific app; you can drag and drop on the device via USB-C (unlike remarkable), you can "airdrop" to it via any web browser, and you can sync without caveats (like how Remarkable will "backup" your notes as a baked in PDF file to Google Drive) and be able to restore and use those files as intended in the future. So many positives for Supernote it's wild.

[@martinrey8662]

man for how much most of this tablets cost you would expect a normal ad free subscription free experience, its so sad that it isnt a given

[@craesh]

I own the Nomad too and the cloud integration is really awesome. I can even use my OneDrive to transfers files from any other device to the Nomad.

[@erickschusterdeoliveira2662]

@@martinrey8662 a lot of these products are made for people with more money than sense. they're not aiming at good value, they're aiming at selling a few units at a massive profit.

[@spdcrzy]

This is absolutely INCREDIBLE for anybody in STEM. Having class notes that are as close to a printed textbook as possible while still being handwritten and being able to include color-coded scientific diagrams, math equations, annotations on pictures, and so on isn't just a nice to have, it reduces learning friction considerably.

[@vvvvvvvvvwv]

Just get an iPad if that’s your use case. Way cheaper and way more capable. You can just get one of those paper like screen protectors and get a nice writing experience.

[@allenrb2]

Damn, I really thought it was cool, until I saw the price.

[@BoneStack117]

There are cheaper options this is the top model

[@tankerkiller125]

Yep, I got a used LTE surface from ebay, and a surface pen for $200 all in. The remarkable pricing is just absolutely insane.

[@amunak_]

@@tankerkiller125 you could almost say it's ... remarkable that they sell anything at all.

[@allenrb2]

@@tankerkiller125 Yeah, for what it is. I could see myself spending $200-300 max on such a niche use case device.

[@RS-Caleb]

@ that price, just buy an ipad or something lmao

[@timm7524]

"I think this is for the ideation phase." Yes!! This is exactly why I love my remarkable 2. For just getting things out of my brain without much perfection or distraction. Let it flow out. Later any useful notes get distilled into proper documents or drawings. For just getting things out of my brain fluidly and being creative, I absolutely love my remarkable.

[@timm7524]

Also holy cow. I didn't know about the line straightening feature. They must have added that, and it works on my 2, too!

[@milanvdzanden]

​@@timm7524 heres something exciting for you then! I also have a Remarkable 2 and recently got an update for circles and squares / rectangles, which operates in the same manner to making a straight line! So useful!

[@milanvdzanden]

In the newest update you can also make circles and rectangles in the same manner! My previous comment got removed for some reason. Yt being yt

[@23william90]

I bought a remarkable 2 a couple months ago, and i use it every day for notes in highschool. I think it actually is very appealing to young highschoolers/ collage students, if it wasnt so expensive. As of now, 3 of my friends bought there own paper tablets/note taking ipads after seeing my remarkable.

[@Tarets]

@@23william90 Bought? Did you mean "received"?

[@tylerboothman4496]

@@Tarets Students are also capable of exchanging money for goods and/or services.

[@23william90]

@@Tarets nah I bought it off of eBay for a couple hundred. I may be broke because of it, but it's actually been a lifesaver for me.

[@salsamancer]

I wish I had something like this in college. I used a gatway laptop/tablet hybrid (this was before the age of ipads 👴🏿) that was a nightmare. By the end of the semester that thing had deep gauges in the screen because of how frustrating it was to use.

[@harshlarose6670]

I mean I did buy the M4 iPad Pro for university so I do get you. I had the 1st Gen iPad Pro 9.7 inch so I was due for an upgrade anyways, absolutely love the display.

[@octorokpie]

To me the killer really is the export options. If I can't easily send my work out to a preferred notekeeping/digital knowledgebase system, notes taken on it quickly become a hindrance as much or more than just taking them on paper and photographing them into my preferred system.

[@BreOfAnna]

You can connect it to another device with usb-c and basically drag and drop your files onto the other device that way. And there is google drive too.

[@gizmoguyar]

Can it connect to VPNs and network drives? I like to work off my SMB network storage.

[@vidyajamesu]

$600+ AND a subscription? Miss me with that shit. If you're going to force me to pay for a subscription, I better be able to buy the hardware for the price of a pizza.

[@eadweard.]

Well it wasn't being targeted at you personally.

[@omegonchris]

Good news, you're not forced to buy the subscription!

[@M3dicayne]

You do not need to buy the subscription and old users have it for free. You can connect any cloud service.

[@zoolity]

Let me be honest. I have the remarkable 2. Its amazing for studies. My notes are organized, highlighted, no more random sheets of paper. I can upload pdfs of books and notes to revise anywhere. I can use it on the go. Send emails from it ect.. Yes, its a steep price but if you can get it and you need it. I would reccomend.

[@NoseThe]

I just wanted to say, I see the remarkable products being used in academic settings. People want digital notes to be able to easily do pdf assignments or annotate papers. Generally what keeps my friends from wanting an iPad mostly comes from the feeling of the writing. So it makes sense, at least from my experience, why they focus so much on the paper like feeling.

[@UrAveragePlayer0]

I’ve used this for school for 5 years, luckily got in with free subscription for life, but man the feel of writing is what keeps me

[@morkusporkus-j2i]

You get so much more out of an iPad software wise though. Haven't used a remarkable so maybe its totally different than a paperlike screen protector, but to me its close enough.

[@MrMartinSchou]

I think there's one more thing that makes something like the Remarkable appealing over an iPad - it's not a distraction. If you get distracted or bored, you need to pull out another device to watch a movie or something. With an iPad and other full function tablets, it's right there.

[@MrMartinSchou]

@@morkusporkus-j2i This can be a blessing as well as a curse. For example, if you give iPads to a classroom full of 2nd graders, there's a very large chance that they'll be on KZbin, TikTok and a bunch of other things that I'm too old and too uncool to think of. With this, those platforms are uninteresting, because you can't watch videos on e-ink. Even outside of kids, if you set up an iPad for a manager, and they're taking notes on it, they get an email notification and suddenly they're in their inbox reading and sending mails rather than taking notes. Humans are incredibly easy to distract - just look at how social media can keep your attention for hours at a time without you noticing.

[@miki4259]

This is exactly the reason I got mine 2 years ago. No distractions, feels absolutely wonderful to write on and some of the features like the straight line tool are quite handy when I need to draw some freehand sketches for calculations. Makes life easier not having to carry around paper notebooks for all of my uni classes and helps in keeping everything organized. Getting the notes easily as PDFs on my PC is also very nice, the subscription is really not needed when the app works quite fine even without it. The price is a bit steep though, that I must definitely admit.

[@Zomboy4313]

It’s such a modern product. Needs a subscription and accessories on top of its high base price

[@Stephen-Jones]

The subscription isn't really needed, it just backs up all notebooks into your account, without subscription it will only back up notebooks that have been updated in the last 28ish days (once it passes that point it will no longer back up that notebook). You can manually back stuff up regardless

[@dah4x]

​@@Stephen-Jonesdoes that mean I've got a month of active editing, before if I want to update an older record, I'd have to do it twice or manually sync the changes? That doesn't sound like a use-case that would impact me, but it seems quite arbitrary for kilobytes of data.

[@MrRa1nes]

Yep. You end up being tied to their proprietary accessories, phone app, single format, subscription. Looks premium but way to expensive for what it is. That hideously long lag after every gesture would render it unusable for me.

[@Stephen-Jones]

@@dah4x as long as you update the notebook before the timeout (I think it's 28 days but can't check right now) then it keeps syncing for you, if you don't for 1 day over that threshold then it will no longer sync no matter how many edits you make. Hope that makes sense, it's overly complicated and definitely designed to encourage a subscription (but you can manually make back ups easily enough)

[@Mythricia1988]

@@dah4x According to their FAQ, without the sub, documents are only cloud-backed for 50 days since last access. Anything you have on-device is always fully available on-device of course. For what it's worth, in the 7 years I've had my RM1, I've never managed to use more than about 30% of the device storage, and it's only 8 gigs, not 64.

[@mad1316]

I got a paper pro for review and I honestly love it. It's bonkers expensive but it feels very much like the kind of premium where the price is on display. I do wish I could get the keyboard that goes with it for less than $200. I can say it is legit the best digital writing experience I've ever felt and it's not even close.

[@CocoaBeanWhip]

1:21 The paper based workflow doesn’t exists “except for in a small niche…” tech reviewers…please re-evaluate how much you think you know about the world.

[@tobiahhowell]

I used a remarkable 2 for college class notes and upgraded to the Paper Pro when it came out. The larger screen was the main appeal to me because I'm still waiting for a nice digital notebook that has the writing area of a standard 8½ x 11 paper. The colors are really nice, though. It can be a little jarring when it refreshes, and it refreshes a lot more often than you expect. If there is any color on the screen and you do anything like scroll, resize, or use the line or shape tool, it removes all the colors and refreshes when you're done. I hope they can work around that in the future. I've also had a weird issue where the quality of the exported PDF's was really low and it made everything almost illegible and all the shapes wrong. I let the devs at remarkable know and they fixed it by the end of the week. I still mainly use it for class notes or concept drawings at work. One thing that I have seen is that the markers for it are a specific standard, and you can have other markers work, but I'm not sure about the full functionality of them. You can import and export files on the paper pro through the USB port connection and a computer with the remarkable app or through the self hosted web page that the paper pro has. So you don't need the subscription for the cloud storage. Overall, I really like it and love using it. I'll definitely keep mine for as long as I can.

[@GodzillaGoesGaga]

HP has foldable tablets. Apple iPad with good battery life, etc.

[@briannormant3622]

​@@GodzillaGoesGaga Its irrelevant. The remarkable is not supposed to be a tablet, more like "enhanced" paper. Its why its called paper pro, not tablet. Is the price step? Yes I'd say. But for anyone used to work with paper, it's amazing at what it does. Its the kind of device you didn't know you needed untill you use it, but It's not supposed to be nor replace traditional tablet

[@Gold97Eagle]

I've been using reMarkable 2 for university note taking, exercise solving and e-reading for 4.5 years now. I prefer it over an iPad and would buy the Pro version in an instant if my device were to break, despite the price. The company does a great job of continually adding features through software updates.

[@Admlcamus]

18:31 the "Spanish Thing" above the N is called "virgulilla" and the complete letter name is "eñe".

[@erickschusterdeoliveira2662]

also known as "til" in portuguese

[@apache937]

no one cares

[@FGGiskard]

@@apache937apparently at least 31 people

[@GrossScience]

As an engineer, a good pen and molskine notebook are a must. Three years ago I switched to the reMarkable 2 and I have no regrets!

[@ZeroUm_]

8:30 there are indeed some psychology studies linking handwriting(and not typewriting) to better brain connectivity. You may get better at your studies, remembering stuff and making connections, if you write stuff down by hand, instead of typing(be in computers, pads, phones, etc). That's probably one of the niches these paper-like writing tablets are trying to reach.

[@genericasian]

From what I remember of the studies done, it has to do with the amount of processing your brain has to do with writing vs. typing. With typing being much faster for most people, note taking becomes more akin to dictation. The brain isnt dwelling in the ideas as long, as most people can the the words as they are being said. With handwriting being a slower form of capture, your brain needs to dwell on what was said, process it, and then distill it into something that can be written down.

[@ucmRich]

the rem paper pro has the fastest refresh i ever seen and i been waiting for a papertablet to go fast enough for my brain. i think i gonna get one of these because of your video pal, ty!!!!!

[@stevethepocket]

The fact that it seems to be locked into only using their own apps that it shipped with is going to be a deal breaker for a lot of people, especially artists. I realize that off-the-shelf art programs would suck on this because it would not be able to automatically figure out when it needs to refresh parts of the screen, but at least the _possibility_ of a third party making a custom build of their apps would go a long way toward making it more viable. We are no longer living in the early 2000s era of PDAs that came with a suite of built-in apps and that was it; we need the infinite possibility space of, dare I say it, a blank page.

[@partlyblue]

It's an electronic notepad that's all it is and that's all it's trying to be. If you have a love for notepads or writing on printouts, but hate wasting paper it fills that hole. Else, it's not a tablet in anything but form factor and the tablet market is not what they're attempting to compete against.

[@drewcipher896]

I was interested in getting a reMarkable for so long, but I could never justify something that expensive when in school so I stuck with paper notebooks and alot of image backups to google drive. Years later, I deep into taking all my professional notes in markdown. Still seems like a perfect device for students(who can afford it over a laptop) and professionals who do alot of in person meetings or who need to review alot of research or literature.

[@orijimi]

17:20 I frequently feel that Riley's true calling would be being a regular cast member of something akin to a British panel show.

[@victorkreig6089]

Those shows are garbage he'd be wasted there

[@vagrantknights]

Been using the Remarkable 2 for a few years now almost daily, a lot for work as well as quickly taking down ideas that pop into my head. I have to admit that it's been a huge benefit compared to paper pads which have cluttered my office and are too disorganized. The fact that it's e-ink is a big positive for me as LED blacklights tend to strain my eyes after long use. On that note the only minor gripe I have with the Remarkable 2 is that it doesn't have any sort of backlight option, so I have to attach a cheap lamp to it when writing in bed next to my wife and those lights, even at low settings, are blinding in pitch black. Otherwise this has been one of those "interesting tech, let's try it out" things that I tend to buy but that has gotten regular use for years instead of just sitting on my shelf after a day. It was just super easy to integrate this thing within my regular daily routine. Would I switch to the Pro? Probably not, since the color feature is really not something I need at all and the backlight is a minor feature that, while it would be nice, I have an alternative for the rare occasions I need it.

[@zackbob6]

0:48 the restraint to not say "great" was palpable🤣

[@lukefrahn8538]

that's 'off to gulag' talk in true doh land

[@divyam_kumar]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@patryksobczak775]

Stonks Riley is a vibe. Print it out and frame it at his desk! 13:18

[@andrewjmarx]

When I was in grad school several years ago I was constantly looking for something like this for reading and taking notes in scientific articles (at least in terms of hardware). At the time, most affordable tablets either had too small of a screen, too low a pixel density, or no stylus support. On top of that, I really wanted eInk, which was even less realistic at the time. The only thing this would have been missing for me is the ability to install the file sync and reference manager apps I use for managing articles across my devices.

[@the_maker1841]

I wanted to get one of these while I went through college but was to deep with my binder system. The closest I got was Huion writing tab for some of the stupidest CAD and Drawing processes I had to participate in; yet they didn't feel great. It is a great option for those who are starting out as you do not need to purchase tons of notebooks/pads. Helps with reading textbook pdfs, etc all in one place. My sister tried a cheap Samsung tablet yet swapped over with a friends suggestion and she loves it. Plus she is able to take it to her internships and have access to everything she wrote, read (you can perma your pdf text books and you probably no this if you watch tech channels), and does not disrupt the professional environment. I tried hers and would like it over the ipads we use at work.

[@seanm3644]

These are awesome, but there's no way I can justify the crazy price, when I could get a fully functional, decent android tablet, for half the price

[@UrAveragePlayer0]

That is the whole point tho. I’ve used this for school for 5 years, luckily got in with free subscription for life, but man the feel of writing is what keeps me. As well 0 distractions

[@cajunvoodoo5930]

Your argument is definitely valid, but if you are buying this product you aren't buying it for a general-purpose computing device. Instead, you want a distraction free digital single sheet of paper. That's all. The price is crazy, yes, but its pretty much the perfect product if that's what you want out of it.

[@fly1ngsh33p7]

amazon fire max: 200€ for tablet and pen

[@Roy_1]

The Amazon Fire Max isn't e-paper/paperlike. A more apt comparison is the Kindle scribe, which is around $200 less than the Remarkable Pro, or about the same as the Remarkable 2.

[@Rezm0ni]

Got a remarkable myself. Feel like the Kindl scribe is the better deal considering the whole Kindl ecosystem behind it. Havnt used one yet but I assume it feels nice to write on that one too

[@sNajlicious]

this is one of the devices i would buy, when i had a usecase for it. looks pretty cool and even through the camera i can see and hear that its really premium. and the brown leather folio looks insanely good.

[@ThatRandomDude914]

That moment when paper has a subscription

[@Shadepariah]

Oh let me tell you about Xerox in the late 80's...

[@tboatrig]

A subscription kinda ruins this concept for me.

[@Tarets]

@@tboatrig Ever heard of Dunder Mifflin?

[@tylerboothman4496]

Newspapers

[@Maddy-Guthridge]

I wish they made it clear that it's unnecessary. You can just transfer the files over USB.

[@M3dicayne]

Remarkable is actually pretty cool. Got the ReMarkable 2 for over a year now and because the accessories are so expensive I use a quite price-worthy cover and a Lamy pen. For which I flashed the eraser function to the tablet. This is actually one of the things I love about the Linux based tablet.

[@tarlane]

The price is a really big pain point, but I do have one of these and love it. I had one of the original remarkables(and pretty much everyone at my office ended up picking one up when they tried it). At the time I was in an MSP, and being able to throw contracts onto there to get them signed, or throwing a floorplan there to mark up for planning out network drops, etc, was huge. I'm also one of those people who can barely read my own handwriting, but have found that when I write things instead of type them I remember it better and this has been a boon for that. In a non-work setting, I'm a tabletop gamer and putting PDFs for rule books or adventures on there and being able to add blank pages into the book for my notes has been great. If you are going to go for one of these type of tools, I'd put this as the best, but as I said you have to be able to justify the price to get there.

[@briannormant3622]

Yeah, the price is really crazy for the hardware. But honestly, I kinda prefer it this way. I love the finish and premium feeling of my remarkables. It's so different from the cheap plastic you see a lot.

[@ego-lay_atman-bay]

15:49 dor anyone wondering, Riley voiced a pony in My Little Pony Friendship is Magic years ago. He was the escape room pony in All Bottled Up.

[@RadioactvPanda]

I've got a Paper Pro and it's a game changer for taking notes for school. I can upload and draw on all my assignments then turn them in online. I can organize all my notes. I love it. The only thing I don't like very much is the pen can lose a millimeter of accuracy if there's static charges on the screen (from clothing etc). But I write small, so that's just me. Otherwise, it's an awesome device and well worth it for me.

[@connorhearne8695]

As an engineering student having the auto line straiten and auto shape feature is a must for drawing complex sketches for problems in class in a timely manner.

[@timrassi3493]

4:30 "Your plastic tips, 007."

[@TDeneHudson]

I have had a ReMarkable 2 for a couple of years and it's changed my desk from a disaster of post-its and slips of paper with me hunting for the right note like a nose-blind bloodhound, to something MUCH more organized. I have groups of virtual notebooks in there for personal and work topics, and can easily switch from one to another and find exactly what I need with no wasted time hunting for the right notes. I work with lots of drawings and diagrams, and it's perfect for drawing those. I work remotely, so if I need to share some designs with coworkers and work out things graphically I can share the tablet screen over Zoom -- and I can draw much better with a stylus than I can with a mouse, so that's a lot less frustrating. All my designs are stored in the tablet so they are automatically stored in there and can be recalled later. It's all synced to my PC/Dropbox so I shouldn't ever have to worry about losing any of my notes. Color would be kind of nice but it's mostly useful when I'm doing screen-sharing with coworkers -- I can highlight certain things in red or blue and those show up when shared (not on the tablet itself since it's monochrome). It was a pricey investment but has paid for itself many times over in time saved. I could see moving to a Paper Pro if my current unit ever needs replacing; the backlight would be a plus in some situations and is one of the main shortcomings right now.

[@secksworker]

reMarkable video.

[@SdudyoyO]

My Uncle always wrote his first drafts by hand, because he argued it activated his creative brain more than typing on a computer. I don't know how much merit there is to that idea, but it worked for him.

[@astranger448]

Works for me. I can do active reading now. I have a Kindle Scribe and I can annotate right away whenever I want.

[@N0N0111]

LMG we need Riley to do something as long as make a Bob Ross painting that is 1 hour long!

[@howitzercannon2713]

This looks great for field sales/services where you can be in the field taking notes and basic drawings of equipment and other processes, and then you can send it to your one note or email, or other company process and have notes for sales/services to refer back to. Being outside in the rain with paper and pen sucks.

[@ChalidRaqami]

It's always awesome to see Riley check out E-Ink. Great stuff!

[@honk2448]

This is EXACTLY what I want for school. Especially for math, I go through a whole college block in less than a month.

[@NeonEUC]

Gonna be difficult wiping your arse with that one matey

[@sergeymelkumov9232]

washing > wiping matey

[@tianm1m160]

I use a Japanese bidet toilet. Warm seat, bum is washed with water and it even has a blow dry function. Never using toilet paper ever again.

[@eadweard.]

Is that from Bottom?

[@kael13]

Looks pretty great for students and people who need to sketch out diagrams. As a desk-bound professional, I now just do all typed notes into .txt and .rtf files. And then iPad Pro for carrying around and versatility.

[@astranger448]

This and it's variants are for the unbound professional. I spent long stretches of times in hospital waiting rooms. I have Kindle Scribe so I can read and work at the same time. Time flies that way. Scribe lives in the Kindle ecosystem, exporting and stuff is fairly straightforward.

[@zk-dl6fh]

Faster refresh on eink is really tough. Especially with color as each color requires its own refresh cycle.

[@briannormant3622]

And its a bit of a moot complaint imo. Its a device you use to read, write and maybe look at image and diagram. There is no situation where you'd need to zoom and move around like this. Sure, in the grand scheme of things a faster refresh would be better, but its a the bottom of my complaint for such a device

[@tbonetv2754]

FYI: The is an screenshare function! AND this is AWESOME! I have it on my remarkable 2 >> works via WLAN and the Desktop App, really good for sharing your drawing live via MS Teams ;)

[@rfitzgerald2004]

I really like the feel of using my reMarkable 2, but what really lets it down is the OS being proprietary and it seems the same is true here. There are some great features especially the screen sharing, but it could do so much more if it ran Android from a perspective of business apps support - I would love to see OneNote built right into it instead of the current way the integration works with attachments. I also don't like that there are two versions of the pen with the better one being unnecessarily expensive - for the price of the tablet I would expect one premium pen version included as standard. And of course the subscription, I know it's optional, but I'd appreciate some 3rd party cloud support (GDrive/Sharepoint/Onedrive etc) without the need for a Connect subscription. Overall, reMarkable have developed an incredible e-paper display and digitizer, but I feel their strength would be to focus on just that, and let someone else put such a screen on a more capable device.

[@jonassandstedt]

One of the best things with a physical note book, is being able to quickly flip through it and discover sketches and ideas that you forgot about. That’s something I miss in all those digital paper ideation focused devices.

[@willybehan770]

9:00 The second generation surface pen actually had the eraser on the tip of the pencil, so you could flip it over and erase. It came with the Surface Pro 3

[@giomjava]

Pro 4 too, I think. LOVED that thing ❤

[@hypothalamusjellolap8177]

Its from our unga bunga days, man discovers fire, man makes cave sketches with the soot and red pigments. It is connecting with information physically when you make notes and annotations to books, etc that profoundly tickles something deep down, primal and uplifting.

[@meadsource]

I had the remarkable 2 and ended up selling it. It was a great tablet and great feel to write on. The best thing was battery. I work a professional job and need to take LOTS of notes. What holds this tablet back is its software. Trying to organise my notes in an organised way that’s easy to find was too hard. I never found a way to do that. Then the other part was being able to take your notes and send them somewhere else. Far too restrictive Remarkable. I went back to an iPad in the end. Nowhere near as nice to write on, but sooooo much more useful.

[@korpse69]

You could always get a paper like screen protector for your iPad if you’re missing that feeling. Messes with the color accuracy a bit but it’s much nicer to write on

[@Arunnn241]

What a world we live in that Apple devices have become more useful than any product.

[@JosephCatrambone]

I've had my remarkable original for eight years. Still in my backpack. Gets much more use than my Kindle.

[@roscoes-wetsuit1]

I used to have a remarkable, it's great - but justifying the cost is very difficult. Even used, I could've got an iPad or Android tablet for the same price with 1000 more features. you have to be very serious about this vibe haha

[@spdcrzy]

Yes, you do. And there's nothing wrong with that. That's why there's a market for it lol.

[@Festivus_Miracle]

@@spdcrzy And no one is saying otherwise. Some of you people are getting pretty defensive in this comment section when anyone justifiably brings up the high cost + subscriptions. The company isn't going to read your comments, you don't have to fall on the sword for them.

[@TigerofRobare]

I work as a security guard in a big city public library and our main reading room is full of college students taking notes with iPads, Remarkables and probably even Kindle Scribes. These devices definitely aren't going away.

[@CyFr]

I think Riley is missing the idea at 11:20 that drawing boxes etc are more for journaling than drafting and engineering.

[@ACIoannina]

I clicked this video, and i got an ad with the unbox therapy guy advertising this same tablet. For a moment, I thought I had clicked on a different video...

[@craesh]

Welcome to Short Circuit

[@tdp_-tx9eu]

I have absolutely no need for one of these, but something inside of me really, really wants one.

[@craesh]

If you know someone who owns one, ask him to show it to you. It’s a crazy experience. Be aware that it sole purpose is for writing, sketching and drafting. You can also read and comment PDFs. The benefits over real paper are that you don’t waste paper, save some weight and can organize your notes very efficiently (linking, bookmarking, etc). There are alternatives to Remarkable, though. I own a Supernote. There is also the Kindle Scribe.

[@tdp_-tx9eu]

@craesh thank you for the information!

[@craesh]

@tdp_-tx9eu welcome!

[@zozodj2r]

These are on the high end, if you want to try getting into epaper you can try a kobo libra colour. Which is 7 inches across. Doesn't have as much functionality but syncs with gdrive and has pen support with colour for around 200 USD

[@tdp_-tx9eu]

@@zozodj2r appreciate it! might check it out.

[@IsaacMcMillan-u7i]

9:35 now that's some crazy good attention to detail.

[@alltrysilver]

I was thinking about buying one of these, but then seeing that it has a subscription I decided not to.

[@pavuk357]

This really feels like the kind of product I should be interested in, but I can't justify it. My 4 years in university showed that I don't really need to make that many notes and I stopped drawing a decade ago when my family moved, and I couldn't attend an arts school. It really seems like a few $3 notebooks and $20 total for mechanical pencil, leads and various pens is just fine for me. I believe I have spent a quarter of the price of the tablet on office supplies in the last 4 years.

[@sethperry6616]

I can't wait for a time where there are color e ink tablets for reading comics from.

[@BSquare1989]

There are... Kobo even switched out their libra 2 for a color one

[@briannormant3622]

If you have your comics in pdf, the paper pro is perfect for reading them. The price is high, but imo the contrast is good enough to have an enjoyable experience reading colored comics

[@AKGWolf]

What do we need now? Paper pro max of course

[@revemb4653]

How will my dog eat my homework now

[@nand2624]

I love Riley's reviews... He explores the product just like a normal consumer.

[@sudiptahalder4048]

Real paper and pencil be like: look what they have to do to just imitate a fraction of our powers 😂

[@briannormant3622]

Can your paper: Undo/redo Copy cut and paste Move/resize Dynamically link pages Sync its content to a cloud. And lastly, store 64Gb of information in around 350g? I love paper, but the fraction of the power is really about the paper.

[@astranger448]

@@briannormant3622 Or buy a Kindle Scribe and hold the 1000+ books I am hauling with me wherever I go.

[@Dragonited]

With coloured display you can draw some technical drawings or sketches that you use different colors for digerent things. In architecture you can use black for walls, blue and red for hot/cold water, yellow for electrical and green for ventilation etc.

[@orijimi]

18:43 Bit of an interesting detail that whatever understanding of Spanish Riley has had has been largely verbal, I guess.

[@orijimi]

@slumpedsunflower Yeah, I think he's just heard it parroted poorly by English speakers. Perhaps the well-known "Me llamo Peggy Hill."

[@victorkreig6089]

He lives in friggin canada what use would he have for anything other than english or chinese?

[@t.n.-js6ei]

​@@victorkreig6089 Les vrais Canadiens parlent français.

[@JohnWeland]

KZbin’s timing is impeccable. Riley “right after this message from our sponsor …” KZbin plays remarkable paper pro ad

[@user-ux8gi8mn8p]

BOOX user here, pretty happy with mine! I got the note air 4 c as my first e-ink device and I’m loving it so far for my studying, reading and other things i’ve been using it more and more and barely use my ipad anymore cause i grab it instead.

[@louiscrasher]

the second main argument for those type of screen is autonomy, they use very little power, its almost 10 days while an ipad is like 10 hours max

[@dotJata]

The windows surface pen has an "eraser" feature... 9:08

[@flufflebut8781]

Yeah, I even injected 2 lines of code to bind hotkeys to the eraser button, so handy for undo and redo.

[@Zeldex72]

Xp pen tablets (some you need to connect to another device) also have “eraser” buttons

[@t.n.-js6ei]

@@Zeldex72 The problem that I have with Windows is that whenever I ran their one of their de-garbaging tools, the OS remained.

[@ocaptainnc]

I enjoyed the part where you started talking about the four “feet“ in the corners… I wondered myself whether there should’ve been a fifth foot in the middle so as not to worry about bending it when you are writing firmly in the center of your notebook. Although not common, I wonder if any of the failures people have experienced was due to the flexing of the unit by writing on a flat surface without the folio. The folio has recesses for the feet, which prevent it from bowing when you’re pressing down on the center.

[@fitch23]

I thought about buying reMarkable and then just settled for a proper tablet which does everything better except looking like paper, for the same price.

[@Soguwe]

The whole selling point of the thing is that it _doesn't_ do all the other stuff

[@lucasklaassen135]

Not just does it do everything better, it also does a ton more.

[@vujhvjvgvfujk9888]

Just get a paper like screen protector

[@victorkreig6089]

It literally doesn't write better, at all Which is the entire point of this thing

[@MunifTheGreat]

I love boox note air 3c. The fact that it is basically an android tablet and can sync to Gdrive is must amazing. I can also read kindle books and also use one note.

[@EternalAwait]

Still waiting for gaming paper

[@sergeymelkumov9232]

some hardcore tik tak toe and battleship action?

[@t.n.-js6ei]

I'm still trying to find a reason to install a game on my computer.

[@sergeymelkumov9232]

@ try brotato.

[@teher1k]

Nice review. I bought the first, which was surprisingly good enough to get the second one, which I still use almost daily. Can't wait to get the Paper Pro! Biggest features you missed: Layers and SVG export. The zoom on the rM2 sucks as well but I never use it. It's the best to stay within the format and create new unlimited pages. Same goes for e-books since you can dynamically adjust font size.

[@iamrelient3011]

Pricing is just crazy. Bought a Kindle Scribe for $250 on black friday and love it. $300 extra for color and a few other features is wild.

[@bubbledoubletrouble]

Conveniently leaving out the retail price of a Kindle Scribe, which is what they always use for these unboxings: $400. There's a reason why you were able to buy a Scribe for nearly 40% off-because not many people want them. None of the other Kindles get as big of a discount.

[@UrAveragePlayer0]

I’ve used this for school for 5 years, luckily got in with free subscription for life, but man the feel of writing and lack of distractions is what keeps me

[@astranger448]

I paid mine full price, totally worth the money. (And the only reason I learned there was such a thing as a Scribe were the never ending adds from Remarkable ;-)

[@mitchreich5849]

Honestly loved how Riley reviewed this product! 👍🏻 Well done ! 👌🏻

[@fumikato]

What remarkable is that bottom bezel that's never get an upgrade since WW2

[@t.n.-js6ei]

No, what';s really remarkable is that cars use wheels that haven't changed much in over 3,000 or so years.

[@ArseniyS-xr1dl]

I always take notes, and sketch something. Plus I read a lot. I used to have notes all over my table, but then got rm2 and it really helps me a lot to have my life a little more organised. Tho the lack of an actual dedicated email client and basic web browser is annoying (both can literally b fixed with software update).In general I really love it, and it's totally functional without any subscriptions.

[@Coldsteak]

I had one of these but returned it because the software was so barebones it was straight up unusable

[@Soguwe]

It's unusable without rm-hacks, no idea why they think they can get away with that

[@minusmartin]

Agreed. I love my supernote because everything is done locally to the device. I'm not a drawer so I don't use crazy draw tools.

[@eduardomurillo9305]

Curious what specifically made it unusable? Works great for note taking for me

[@t.n.-js6ei]

So you couldn't play Zelda II on it?

[@cogspace]

I love my reMarkable 2 and the fact that they've finally made a color version is VERY interesting. It's definitely a highly specialized device and quite expensive, but if you have a use case that it's well suited for, there's really nothing quite like it.

[@devvie_hu]

I wish they'd show some manga on these devices how it looks. Or even a manwha on the colored ones.

[@Spentalei]

If you're looking for that just look for a review with a similar panel or another review. They all show images in the same way. No point differentiating on that.

[@Doctor011]

It's absolutely beautiful. I have this tablet, and it's just perfect.

[@alexhammond5002]

I have one of the previous versions and it is my daily driver replacement for the pen and paper I used before. I use it exactly for what they intended. I make notes, draw plans for home projects etc. In this role it excels. The one thing I do not do is record confidential info like passwords. The reason for that is the sync to the remarkable cloud and it is not clear what encryption and security is in place for that environment. Because They don't talk about it, even to their users, means I will only have data that does not need to be considered confidential on there.

[@thyncha]

It has a predatory subscription, count me out

[@reevesnick]

It is not required. You can transfer files via USB or use the cloud for a file for 50 days when the notebook is active. Plus its $3 a month. It ised to be $8/month

[@enderduck4253]

As far as I can tell, it's just optional cloud storage. What makes it predatory?

[@thyncha]

@@enderduck4253 when the remarkable 2 launched all those features were included in the product and then they decided that everyone that bought the remarkable 2 from x date had to pay for it. So obviously it isn't something that couldn't be done without the subscription they just saw the opportunity to milk their customers. Also all other competitors offer similar features but no subscription

[@mpk927]

Yep

[@spdcrzy]

​@@reevesnick the fact that they have reduced the price in and of itself actually makes me want to get the subscription.

[@concinnus]

"I'm not going to stick it in now" Oh, Riley, you're such a tease.

[@Spiricore]

Just the tip though.

[@notCAMD]

ShortCircuit is not a review channel.

[@Miles-Oldenburger]

i got a remarkable paper pro ad right as you said "from our sponsor" and really thought that was your sponsor...

[@svsguru2000]

If this was 100 Moneys tops, this would be a good replacement for a notebook (the type you write in with a pen). But 600? GTFO.

[@BelviGER]

Ive been using one for work and fun and also bought 5 for work Technical drawings look so amazing on it, as do comics. And the writing just feels good. I cant exactly pinpoint a comparison but its definitely pen on paper. Also interestingly everybody uses different pens for notetaking. It can be a bit slow with larger files and you need a light touch for it to register touch inputs, not hard pressing which can be a bit counterintuitive to some people when they get frustrated All devices have worked flawless, so i hope that the issues some users had early on were just an early bad batch Everybody tried and nobody uses the keyboard cover Just want more colors for the normal covers

[@jorismak]

I would want this to take notes, diagrams and story maps, but share the screen live with people in a meeting . Either through a live view other people can use, or participate in an online meeting and/or screenshare.

[@mikithekynd]

There's a screen sharing feature, it requires the receiver PC to have the reMarkable app installed, and logged into the reMarkable account on both the tablet and in the app.

[@redex68]

I have a Remarkable 2 and I'm pretty happy with it. It's a great e reader experience and the note taking is also great, my only gripe with it is that the marker on the 2 is a bit too imprecise for me. The marker often is off by like a millimeter (always near the sides and at a few other spots on the screen), meaning that dotting the i-s and the like can be extremely frustrating, and the marker tips are really weak. I tried out the Pro from a friend and from my experience it completely fixes those problems. The marker head is much more robust and the precision is far better. If you're interested in it, especially for the note taking, and you have the money, I highly recommend the Pro over the 2, but the 2 is a solid experience as well.

[@melonmelon2848]

0:50 SAY IT YOU COWARD 🥺

[@_Mr_moo]

can we have a moment to appreciate Riley's luscious locks