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reMarkable tablet

6owners with an opinion
80%of verdicts positive
3/0positive/negative since 2024
0happy after 3+ years

Praised for ease of use; criticized for software and display.

What people wrote

Likes it
I used Tailscale on my remarkable tablet for a while; synchronizing documents over ssh is a lot easier with a static IP. It's fairly hard to get stuff to start on boot on the RM, or at least it was at the time, so I eventually moved off that plan. But it was pretty awesome to be able to ssh in from anywhere in the world.
Likes it
I adamantly disagree. There are 10,000 devices in this world that will feed you your email if you really need to see it in the second it comes in. You probably have one in your pocket right now and another on your wrist and a third that you are staring at to read this post. I use a Remarkable tablet (the Scribe's competitor) for the exact reason that it doesn't come with apps for email or web browsing or an app store or a weather app. It writes really really well (the scribe does too) and lets you focus on that. It doesn't try to be the 4th version of a smart device when you already have so many. The simplicity of it is a feature not a bug.
Neutral
Here is a first draft. I'll expand if I have more time and energy. Rule #1. Every thing gets a date (And more an aspiration than reality a time.) I am truely an oddball and have my own date format 2023_12Dec_26Tue_1312. Rational, when used a a corresponding file name, it sorts naturally assuming you used 0 prefix on one digit numbers. Day of week, just another memory clue to try to recall specific thought experiment. Rule #2. It is a process, not end product. Like the article mentions, no erasure. Point is re remember mistakes, not hide them. Rule #3. Take you time to write neatly. It is for your future you, and you will thank yourself. May feel like a debt due to slowness, but really an investment for your future self. Pros. reMarkable likes: feels like nice inkflow. Can get a fine line not quite comperable to a Pilot G-Tec-C 0.25 pen, but fine enought. I write small to increase information density per page. NeoSmart pen: doesn't just feel like ink flow, it is inflow Cons. NeoSmart pen: notebooks are expensive. Cheapskate in me, writes less than I should. Remarkable tablet: Miss the real estate of two pages open in a labnote book. Also, miss the leafthrough feel of physical notebook. Can't as easily binary seach to find something like one can in paper notebook Just saw Smart Plate at neosmartpen site, resisting urge for impulse purchase Edit - update to expand Additional cons or NeoSmartpen: Very limited number of pen widths. Note: When I worked for a livi…
Doesn’t like it
The reMarkable tablet was a great product, until they started uploading all of the contents in the name of syncing to the cloud. I liked to use it with PDF templates. Download a PDF template and now it uploads the content in the name of 'syncing'. I've found no way to turn this miss-feature off. If you delete the data on the cloud then the next sync deletes it from the table. This has made this device useless for professional people that are legally bound to not share data about clients, etc.
Likes it
+1 to this, my Kindle and ReMarkable tablets are my favorite devices. As someone with ADHD I find them incredibly helpful for staying on-task, and I love how easy it is to get my notations from the Kindle (takes a bit more effort with the ReMarkable).