ReMarkable 2 Tablet

Two weeks ago, my husband got me a ReMarkable 2 tablet for my birthday and I’m LOVING it. It’s kind of like an ipad, but without all the apps, so every time I pick it up, I know I’m not going to get distracted. There’s no Twitter or Instagram or anything else for that matter. The surface is not backlit and so it looks more like paper, and the end of the “pen” is an eraser that works brilliantly.

I had put it on my wish list because I was looking for something that would replace the many (many) notebooks I have floating around in my life, full of notes that I can never find when I need them. Well, it definitely does that and I’m starting to see how it might eventually come to replace about half of my filing system.

I don’t know that I would actually write out a story on it… It does have a button that converts printed words to typed notes so you can email them to yourself or others, but I worry that it’s not accurate enough to make it worth while to try to do a whole manuscript that way. That said, I am already using it to hash out ideas. I love using different “pens” for different things. Sometimes I just doodle with it to keep my hands occupied while I’m on a call:

And then there’s this one that my son did in the car on the way home from wrestling practice:

I count that as legit art. I might have it framed.

So that’s my unofficial review of the ReMarkable 2 tablet. In short: two thumbs up.