Hello everyone, welcome back to the Keep Productive YouTube channel on today's feature
We're finally checking out the remarkable tablet
it's a paper tablet and you can use to take notes to even create folders and
keep yourself organized now a really nice balance between
analog and digital
I wanted to review a combination of things today the design the hardware the software and
All you need to know but I will be doing a longer review. But without further ado folks. Let's dive into today's video
So you guys may have seen the remarkable tablet that I've been sort of sharing in a few videos and I've had it for about
Two months now, and I've been following the company for quite a while now
I think I first saw them on Kickstarter and was pretty impressed
And the main reason I wanted to review here on the channel is because it's as I said, it's this weird combination
weird between
Analog, you know paper to some extent and digital. So for example like to duyst and notion, etc
it's sort of like a
Middle ground and of course, there's going to be many people in the comments
You know
Asking me how it compares to iPads and other details like that and I'll do my very best to come to that at the end
But I will be doing a much more in-depth feature
I want to share a few of the small things
That have happened to me as I'm using this device and also how it frames itself as well
So that's a really important thing. How does this?
frame itself and the way that they promote it on their website is it's this
Thinking tool and it's designed to get you offline to help you utilize
The written page to some extent so it really does sort of you know
Really encourage you to get in the mindset of offline
And try and work on this e-ink display
So let's first start by talking about the design now first off. It is very thin as you can see
It's about a pencil length thick
And it also has a very nice design something that I really liked on the back of it
Is it the top and the bottom you have this like rubber that helps for example?
If you want to put it on a table, so it doesn't necessarily shake or move when you're trying to take notes
And that's a really small detail
But actually helps to improve your writing and also get you a bit more focused now
One thing I'd say about the back while we're talking about it is the the actual silverback that they've got here
It's it gets a little bit scuffed and I've been fairly careful with it keeping it in a portfolio that they offer with it
I'll talk about some of the accessories near at the end and
actually, it got a little bit scuffed you can see the scuff marks and
Naturally, that's a bit of a pain. Maybe that's cuz I got the white edition. It doesn't happen in the black one
But as you can imagine something to note on the quality
However, aside from that the eating display looks lovely. It works very well. There were three
buttons at the bottom in the middle
you've got the home button so that will help you to return home and the other two are for scrubbing between pages and
What's really nice is when you're using it. It sounds like paper. I don't know whether you can hear that
But it's sort of like this weird blend between you'll know you're writing on a digital device, but you're also writing on
Feels like paper
there's also this home button at the top or
On/off button and you can hold it to go into sleep mode and you can hold it for longer to turn off
Now something I'd say is the battery life is pretty reasonable on this device
It touts a five to seven day battery life, but I've would say it's a little bit less an app
But maybe that's because I've been connected to the Wi-Fi that it has
inside of it, so I probably get about three to five days depending on how
Aggressively I use it. I would say that if I for example used it for a couple of hours in the evening
which I typically do these days because I
I'll explain my opinion here at the end of it
But I'll just for example be tire writing or making sketches or something like that
And naturally that's when the Battery depletes faster
But the good thing about this is even though that three to five battery days life that I've experienced
It does charge up in one hour. So that's a pretty reasonable
recharge time
Okay, so that was more about the hardware and let's talk a little bit about the software now. Let's talk about this
This is the pen that comes along with it. Although this one isn't there's two types of pen. There's like a
Classic one. I don't know the word for it and it's also this signature one now
they both what both work in the same way one is white one is black but as you can imagine
It does allow you to write pretty well on it. They have these nib things on top and you can change them
They give you some cartridges for free. I don't think they get worn down as fast. I've probably only changed my once in two months
But it's something to note because obviously they're I think the tips are in the range of say eight
for an aid package twelve pound which twelve dollars which is fairly high for paying for nibs, but
Again, something to note down when you're purchasing this now inside of the software itself
You can do a range of things now. I want to start with the Wi-Fi
You can connect to your home Wi-Fi or whatever. Why find your on there's no 3G cellular connectivity
However, it does limit you to what you can do. You can do one of two things you can either
Connect it. So that it syncs and you can see your for example your notebooks and notes on your Mac or Windows or
You can upload
PDFs or files that you want to annotate on the device and I've done this a couple of times mainly for like
Two guidance documents for the house and read them on here
And it's helpful for annotating but nothing major
It's again something that you'll find that you may use
But you could probably do with something else you already use like scannable or Evernote now
The one thing you can do is when you get set up, you can create these three areas and they're called folders naturally
Notebooks and inside of any of your notebooks. You can create notes now
The good thing is one thing I was impressed with is they have things called templates?
So for example, you create a note you don't necessarily have to have it blank. You can have dotted notes
You can have these pre created week planners and a range of other ones as well
So you do get to start out both in portrait and landscape if you want to get started
So once you create a notebook there is a range of options down the left hand side
you get to change your type of pen and the pen can range from anything from ballpoint pens to
fineliners to markers to pencils to paintbrushes and
Highlighters as well. But something to note on the highlighter side is obviously this is an Ian display
It's only gonna show one color and that is dark so you can do shades
so you can do I believe it's a thin thick and
Thick thin medium and thick and also when you're using the highlighter, you can change the shade you
Have an eraser and you can also move certain elements around you can zoom in zoom out
So it is a very handy canvas
Now there is something called Live View. I haven't used it yet, but they do stay
it's in beta and I believe that means you can see on your PC or your Mac a
Live view of what you see on screen?
You can also do handwritten text and then convert it into text
Because it's able to analyze that and then actually produce
Text when you're on the screen so that can be pretty helpful for taking notes
But I would say you have to be a very good writer
I'm very loopy and it didn't really some aspects of it didn't understand my converting so I haven't really used that feature
aggressively since
Now the one feature I've liked is the send by email feature
Now the assembly email feature allows you to send any of the pages inside of a notebook or a notebook as a whole
To other people in your team in a range of different formats
so
That's very handy
For when you'll attach to Wi-Fi and you want to send it to somebody else and it does definitely look a lot more professional
Being able to send it in a PNG or PDF, which is very helpful
Now there are some abilities for sketches
There's thing called layers where you can edit the layers, for example
You can change the template add a layer move a layer around so you can maybe add this different layer of
Sketching if you're from example an architect
They do promote that a lot that this is more for thinkers than it is necessarily for folks like myself
And you can also go and set it to landscape view as well as see a page overview
or create any new page at any given time now one thing I started doing from scratch was I
Obviously just started just getting stuck in with it. So I pretty much created a bunch of notes that I didn't necessarily use
Massively so be careful when you're starting if you do because the notebooks obviously you can get carried away
So I created this sort of new structure I've got now
which is I pretty much just like active notes for content ideas and thoughts and things like that and
Projects which a project-based notebooks for example, like house and business map so can actually sort of plan out stuff a bit more strategically
So you do get to access menu where you can see all of your notebooks PDF ebooks and favorites
you can view stuff in lists or gallery view, but those are the only two options and one thing I'd say is
You get when you get the no remarkable
Tablet you do get a version which does look incredibly different to the version. I'm showing you so make sure you go to
Settings and check that you've got an able update on
So on the settings side of stuff you can do a range of things. You can set it to flight mode
You can change your account details
you can change the Wi-Fi you're connected to you can see your power and some of the
battery saving
abilities and
also storage
which is something I wouldn't think I look at but at the same time you don't really need to worry about storage that much unless
You're uploading
soup super-heavy pdfs to this device
for example, I've only used
0.39 gigabytes of 6.5 gigabytes, so I doubt then I'll have to worry about
Reaching that storage limit anytime soon
You can also set a passcode and also change the hand writing
Conversion settings so that you can change it to another language
You can modify the keyboard as well as some of the other accessibility --zz so there is also something called quick sheets
Which allow you to get started pretty instantaneously give you an example of the features, but in the bottom left hand corner
You can see your battery percentage and your Wi-Fi
So before I dive into the pricing and some of the questions I've been getting already
I'm gonna say I like it
I'm gonna say I like it 7 to 8 out of 10 and the main reason is I've never really had a
Tablet. So for me, this is like a really nice experience
That one takes me away from the screen and allows me to make like for example
Content notes write notes write thoughts and I particularly enjoyed using at the moment
for taking notes when I'm doing courses and
Actually saving paper around the house
Minimalist its style use of it because you're using a little less paper across a day
But it doesn't necessarily replace a journaling or anything like that. I like journaling on paper
I don't know why I think it's because I know that I'm gonna pass on to someone else in the future
But I think the main reason I like it is because it's really well crafted in its design and it also just works
Very well. I just like that
I think I really like it about they're the things that sort of the cons I've noticed is
That I would sort of like weirdly to be connected to other services but that sort of defeats the point of the product
If for example, you can see a newspaper on here or get crossword or apps like that like Sudoku which I thought initially
Then that might ruin the natural offline aspects of it
And the thing that I don't like as well is the pricing which I'll come to in a mode
I don't think it's very well-priced. I think it's designed for more of a premium market
I know that from seeing some of the videos they do and all that
But then at the same time it is a bit steeper than I thought and I'll talk about that in a moment
so one of the questions that I
mentioned earlier was why not just buy an iPad and iPad does all of this and more and
why this is different is because
It's more of an offline tool. It's to help you get away from that environment
With an iPad you will get sons more value honestly if you when you look at the price
You'll go you'll get tons more value getting an iPad and you could potentially get something like take paper-like
Which I know ali abdel uses to add on top of your iPad to make it feel more paper-like
But that sort of defeats the point of the tablet itself. This tablet is designed to get you away from that environment
And I'm seeing that more and more as I use it because in the evenings if I still want to keep my creative mind
Flowing it doesn't necessarily I notice like even backers noting. They're like, it's okay to use this it doesn't distract
Me too much then say a phone with note of notifications
and
The other question I'm getting from new folks is like how good is it in terms of the sketching abilities?
And again, I would probably give this about a 7 out of 10
I would say the iPad with the Apple pen from using it beforehand is definitely more accurate
But what you don't get with that is more of a offline feel is that I guess that touch of paper
Then you would say for example with the remarkable
So the pricing this is where it comes a little bit tricky to talk about because the pricing is high in
the UK it's
449 pound and in the US and in the US the pricing is
499 bucks
So you're looking at the price of a basic iPad as you can imagine that is steep
This is actually the first edition
There are now two two editions as of this video
Which means I probably have to review them are remarkable to and sort of give you my opinions on it
But you can get refurbished models on the site for like fifty dollars less
But again spiit pricing, I wasn't very happy with this pricing
if I'm honest believe for the same amount of pricing you can get and a basic iPad the
128 gig model and you could install the paper like and display on it for the same sort of price
But again Apple tend to wrap on huge
Prices for their pens or keyboards or accessories or even going up a model so you may actually be spending a bit more
Apple depending on what you go with now, let's talk about the markers that you get with that
Now the marker the basic mark you get is
$59 so you can buy the pen separately, which means you then add up to 550
But I believe there sometimes you starter packets which include it for free
But if you wanted a signature on its own, I believe that's 99 bucks. So the signature pen is definitely nice
It's a really nice build quality and I really like the click
Then it makes when you utilize it, but that has no value at the same time
But I really like the pen then it comes with as I said the tips
If you get an 8 pack that you need for the top of this pen then it's gonna be 12 bucks
So that's gonna add on and the additional thing is if you want a folio with it
Which is either a leather design or this sort of canvas II design
I'm not sure what the quality or the name of the product is, but I'll include it below which range from anything from
$79 to
129 so you can definitely see why this is more of a premium
Experience. It's definitely look it's definitely aimed for those businessmen that want to switch off but take really attractive notes and email them
On now since we've done this video there is a remarkable - so I will look to get in touch with the team
But my opinion is I really like this device. I'm continuing to use it
as you can imagine
It's high in price to start out with but it's something that I think I would probably pay the price again
You know because I've actually found a huge amount of value from its taking me away from the screen
It's also giving me a paper like experience
But then I've never had an iPad just take note into that
And also it's given me a way to creatively think in the evenings and that's something that has
Improved the quality of videos recently I think and it's allowed me a bit more creative freedom
You're probably just saying pick up some paper Francesca because it would be a lot cheaper
But again their guesses are somewhat
environmentally-friendly
Ok folks, so I'm looking in the future to do some more iPad apps. I'm looking to get an iPad soon
I'm gonna look at the rocket book and put it against this
I'm also gonna look to get the remarkable 2 tablet are there updates in that one looked a lot more attractive with the design?
So, let's see. I will be doing more videos about this
I'm very impressed with this
And some of the software side of stuff and the way that you can set up may be useful as a video so folks
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