Okay YES I did spend a thousand dollars on a tablet that can't even compete with
the very cheapest tablets from Apple or Samsung when it comes to features,
but after two straight years of daily use I can confidently say that this
could be the best tech purchase I've ever made in my life. NOT joking. here's why:
Looking back a couple of years ago I was majorly struggling with a few things that I'm sure you
could probably relate to I was having trouble focusing on tasks and I had all of these to-do
lists and reminders and ideas just floating around in my head at all times and despite
trying and buying pretty much every app out there for lists and writing and organization
nothing clicked and that includes pen and paper too like I personally much prefer the feel a fan
on paper but between being an organizational Nightmare and not being able to bring my pads
and papers with me everywhere I go that didn't work either and all of that led me to buying the
Remarkable 2 paper tablet all right let's go over this thing foreign that's a lot of denim
real fast personal disclaimer here um I have a problem when it comes to videos like this whenever
I try and film something I try and make it look really good I want everything to look nice and
that includes like putting this out in HDR like if you have an HDR monitor you're watching an HDR
which is pretty cool I think but when it comes to doing a video about a product that I happen
to really like it can definitely seem like an ad but this video is 100 not that I've never been
in communication with remarkable before I bought this thing with my own money nearly two years ago
now not sponsored I don't know I just put that down I need this if we're judging a book by its
cover here it would seem a bit ridiculous that anyone would spend 957 dollars Canadian on what's
essentially a nicely built e-ink tablet one with almost zero connectivity no apps no color screen
this thing doesn't even have a backlight yes I use a clip-on book light with my thousand dollar
tablet so how has this Kindle from space been such a life-altering device for me for me personally it
comes down to this company remarkable building a device that I legitimately am excited to use
every single day don't just use this for work too I bring it with me on holidays everything having
to do with writing and reading I want to do on this tablet because it we'll go over more of
that in a second that mixed with a special blend of like a distraction free environment which is
big for me and maybe most importantly it forces my brain to slow down to the speed of my hand now
obviously yes paper and Pen can do those things as well but that tablet gives you like J I find
just the right amount of digital conveniences to make it fit really well within the daily routine
of someone like myself like running a couple of YouTube channels and brain is like all the time
pretty ideal and so in this video yes I'm going to show you all the fancy little features of this
device but also the three things that I started doing when I got the remarkable that have changed
my life for the better over the last two years in some pretty big ways so make sure you stick
around for that and turn that on and before we do get going I do want to say a big thanks to
grovemade who is a sponsor of this video and also the company that makes a lot of things on my desk
and what I find interesting about grovemade is that they're really confident about the things
that they make and so they told me that like you don't even need to do an ad read just show them
the things that you love to use on a daily basis so but the two things I will say are
one if you've been following this channel for any length of time you know just how picky I am about
things that go on this desk and things that I actually use and the other thing is the fact
that everything I have from them has like a heft to it it's weighty which I really really like the
quality and the design I really love it if you want similar things in your workspace you can
go and click the link down in the description below so if you've spent any amount of time
looking around online for e-ink tablets that you can actually write on there are a few options out
there and pretty much all of them have way more more features in this one and I'm quite sure
that I've watched every single review video and comparison video between this tablet and every
other tablet out there I swear the same thing happens in basically every single video they go
over all the features and specs and all that kind of stuff and they say well this other tablet does
this and it does this and it runs on Android it seems like every single time they end up grabbing
the remarkable and they're like it just feels so nice it just makes you want to use it every
single day this other tablet's a lot better but I still want this one how something feels like the
tactile nature of it is massively important for me like for me I generally never spend money on
things that are just for me personally I just don't with three exceptions my coffee stuff
my personal camera and the thing that I write in I want to and I kind of need to look forward to
using those things in my life because I use them so often so I made the irrational choice and I
bought the remarkable too alright so kind of like how I mentioned before this whole thing is
like everything you would touch is either texture glass or aluminum and it feels really really good
in the hand it's extremely thin it's also really nice with the case or the folio whatever you want
to call it um they they really tightly integrated everything for this nice little package here super
clean lines all over it this is also the marker plus it's a little bit more expensive and the two
reasons for that are one it has an eraser on one side so you don't have to go into the little side
menu and hit eraser and then erase you can just flip it around and erase and the other part about
it is that it's a little bit heavier the regular marker is 15 grams and this marker is 19 grams
and I find it is just the right weight it's really nice this also happens to be the thinnest tablet
in the world it is really really thin and yeah that's a nice little bragging point and I think
Mr who's the boss ended up including it in a video of the world's thinnest Tech but
um the actual reason for that from what I understand and what I've experienced is
that when you have something really really thin it's a much better writing experience
so as your hand goes off the side of the the tablet it's not like falling off the
side which makes it a lot more difficult to write so when this thing is down on a table
it is really really low to that table height it feels really great to write in I think now
back to the textured glass on this it's really important for how it feels and how it sounds too
which is more important than maybe you'd think so here's a little audio test for you a little
ASMR for your morning between the remarkable two and pen and paper and pencil and paper
foreign plugs in with USBC on the bottom and on the top there is a little power button and
that's it those are the only inputs on this device other than with the marker so most of
the navigational things can be done both with either the marker or with your hands apparently
it took six years of development to come up with the screen for this thing and two years
later everything's still working there's no glitches there's no nothing like that
they say there's two weeks worth of battery life on this and if you're using it sparingly
maybe uh I use it every day so I get about a week out of it which honestly is perfectly fine with me
like I never I'm never like uh what do they call that I don't have any sort of battery anxiety with
this thing there are some features with this that if you were to buy it today you would have to pay
a monthly fee but to be honest like as far as just using this as a writing instrument day after day
I honestly don't really think I use any of the stuff that I would be paying for so but speaking
of which the one thing that I do use and one of those digital powers that that this thing kind
of gives you over paper and pen is that like when I'm writing all of my scripts like for
this video right here lots of times especially when I'm filming for my other channel which is
based around mountain biking we're often out in the woods and I'm not I'm not bringing this
with me and so I can write the script and I can highlight and do all these different things and
it'll Auto populate over onto my phone so I just go into the remarkable app or I guess you could
use the Google drive or OneDrive or whatever or Dropbox and I can get at my script Trailside on
my phone so I'm able to do my important writing thing on a device that lets me focus and then when
I'm actually out in the field I can use whatever device I'm comfortable with having in my pocket
while I'm flying down a cliff on a mountain bike the folio for this as I was saying earlier it's
really really nice it magnetizes in Boop by the way this does not come with the device and this
doesn't even come with the tablet either you gotta buy everything separately yeah right and
so when you buy when you get one of the markers it'll come in a little box like this and it has
a few extra tips over two years I think I've gone through three although I I do tend to try and get
the most life I can out of them because I don't really want to have to order more so one thing I
did find I just keep it in this box with the tips for the remarkable tablet is a studler Stadler a
Norris digital jumbo that guy there and there are a few out there that you can choose from
this feels a lot lighter than the marker plus that's for sure but it's a lot cheaper too and
I was about to say even the Eraser works but um let me just uh quadruple check on that for you
yes and the Eraser works too um the other couple of things that I use all the time that are kind of
more on the digital side of things now blended with a paper kind of feel are one choosing
different types of pens so you got ballpoint pen and fine liner and marker and pencil and
paintbrush highlighter calligraphy pen and you can do text as well for me I use mechanical pencil
pretty much all the time mixed with calligraphy pen and highlighter and within those you can
choose how thick or how thin you want it or with the highlighter you could choose which color which
is really just a different shade but if you sync it up and you go and look at that same note that
you made on your phone now the highlighters actually are in different colors which I find
interesting but a really big one for me that I use all the time I didn't think I would but it's
kind of the object selection tool I'll write a paragraph and I'll move on to the next paragraph
and then I'll realize it like oh no I want something placed in between those two things and
normally if you have paper well that's not going to happen unless you're cutting and pasting and it
turns into a Artisan crafts night but with this I can just choose object selection and make a circle
around whatever I was writing it selects that and then I can move it I can make it smaller or bigger
I can copy and paste it somewhere else that I find super super useful all the time you can also
have different layers and it works very much like Photoshop does and so you can add a different sort
of like a template layer dots or grids or a weekly planner isometric and perspective and all you know
all these different things calligraphy Pages music but 99 of the time I just use regular old line
paper okay so let me show you how I use this thing day to day and how I organize my life and make
this thing really worth it alright so here we are this is the the main sort of Base menu system for
the whole thing and I'll quickly cover this and we'll dig into the really good stuff so as you can
see there's not a lot going on here and this is probably the most organized thing that I've owned
and like consistently organized so you've got some like base file structure here like nothing crazy
um you've got like dailies and that's where all the the real juicy stuff is and we'll dig into
that in a second Lone Ranger which is our other channel it's kind of our main full-time Channel
and run the jewels which is one you're watching right now books and articles and so like if you
go into Lone Ranger I've got scripts and video planning other things that I that I want to write
about and video ideas that kind of stuff and if you go and click on articles this is one really
cool thing that I that I like a lot about the remarkable is that um you know like when you
want to read an article especially longer articles and you go to the website and there's just endless
pop-ups and like ads absolutely everywhere well there's like a Chrome browser extension for the
remarkable that lets you shoot that article over to this and it knows what's the actual article and
it knows what what are ads and so it only sends the actual text from the article here I'll show
you I'm just going to hit a little button on my browser it says read unremarkable and it is
shooting on over to this boom there it is and so now what I do is
um I'll go and move it over to articles
because that's where I like to keep them [Music]
and there we go it is such a nice reading experience like I honestly think this is a nicer
reading experience than paper oh this is a little ominous but anyways here you go it looks great and
there's no ads so nice books are a little tricky because you can't hook it up to your library like
if I if I could just hook up like regular ebooks to this I think that would be amazing and that's
probably the thing that I dislike the most about this tablet is that you can't hook it up to like
Libby or whatever you use for your library books okay then over here we've got quick sheets and
notebook two Notebook 2 is honestly I don't even know what that is it's just random stuff that I
was writing and honestly quick sheets that's just the same exact thing this is just like things that
I'll just like mess around with and there you go you can like do a little fast scroll through here
and you can see it's all just like whatever just stuff that I felt like doing you know what I mean
oh this is an important one that was really annoying my kid one day and he says Dad you
know what I am really annoyed and I had this on me and I said annoyed I'll show you annoyed
so once you click through into dailies this is how I have it set up and this is what's
been really really helpful for me over the last couple of years there are two things that I try
and do very consistently one is morning pages and the other is story of the day and I'm not going
to click into morning Pages or even story of the day because that's all pretty personal stuff but
basically for somebody like myself whose brain is just always running like top speed all the time
not saying I'm smart it's just my brain won't slow down morning page is something I do I try
and wake up at five every morning and as soon as I do I go and sit down and I write my morning Pages
which is one full page of stream of Consciousness writing whatever my brain is thinking at the time
I have to write it and what I find so so helpful and useful about that is that normally when your
brain fires up for the day it's really going like it's thinking about all these different things
and it can be stressful but when you're writing morning pages each one of those thought processes
and you try to not make it specifically about anything like that thought pops into your head
and you write it out whatever it is and it takes a little while to actually write those words out and
I find that because my brain has to to wait for my hand to finish writing oftentimes my mindset about
what about that thought whether it was a stressful thing or whatever shifts a little bit and I can
view it from a different perspective and when you do morning Pages you try to not stop writing you
just go whatever your brain is thinking about you just write it down my only rules are it's
like you can't be negative towards yourself in morning pages and when you're talking about
things that you'd like to do I don't say I should do this I say I will do this and it's like those
little tiny differences that that I find solidify things in my mind a lot better I don't know this
is something that that happens to have helped me maybe it can help you too but it is such a
nice way to start the day it just calms you right down your brain gets to get everything out in a in
a much more helpful way and story of the day is something that I I've really come to appreciate
over the last couple years and I got it from a guy named Matthew Dix and he's written a really
great book called storyworthy and what he does is that every single day at the end of the day he'll
sit and write down sort of the the big story that happened that day it could be actually something
quite small but it's something that he would like to remember going forward it's usually like one
to two sentences kind of thing like you're not writing paragraphs he calls it homework for life
I didn't love that because I hate homework so I call it story of the day and it's so cool to look
back at all these little moments that happened and when you read that one to two sentences about like
what that main story was from the day or that big thing that happened or a little thing that
happened it just brings you right back there July 4th 2021. today I realized that my mom may have
been lured into a pyramid scheme September 14th it got pretty 16th century in my mouth today and
not in a good way I had to get a tooth pulled and it and it did not go well January 26 2022 today I
narrowly avoided running over two miniature horses not baby normal horses full-grown miniature horses
okay planning now this is not something I'm perfect at but this system that I've kind
of devised and pieced together from lots of other people's systems has worked pretty good for me so
one of the things that I find really helpful is a running to-do list it's a never-ending to-do list
and anytime you think of something that you have to do you can see how long this is you just write
it right down at the bottom there so you can just get it off your mind and onto paper and through
that running to-do list I put together a weekly planner now this is actually a really bad example
of this this is not I really should have like made something up so it shows like how I would normally
use it this is not I would normally use my weekly planner but anyways usually I take that to-do list
and I spread it out throughout the week this one I clearly just used for a Thursday and I use the
next day's spot to just kind of like dig into exactly what I have to do on that one day which
works fine too and that's kind of the nice part about this is that you can use it however works
best for you so I've got my running to-do list I've got my weekly planner and then I've got my
daily planner and so again this is something that I've kind of is going to go into like horizontal
mode here this is something that I've really found quite helpful is that you've gone from
your running to-do list and over and above that you have your you know your general life goals
and things like that you have your running to-do list your weekly schedule and then that breaks
down into your daily schedule and so for me here I've got today's tasks over there a little
gratitude thing over in the top right corner like what are you thankful for this morning and then
you come back to this later on in the day what were you thankful for in the evening just little
things like that I find keeps perspective we got habits this one isn't fully filled out actually I
was just doing this the other day and it's not a great example probably should have put more time
into my examples I've got today's tasks and then I've got the minute by minute almost schedule on
this side here and the laser and energized thing this these are again like little bits that I've
that I've grabbed from other people's uh setups laser is just like how focused do you feel you
that you were that day and also how much energy did you feel that you had that day and lots of
times those correspond with each other and at the end of the day you can go today I learned this and
usually it's something sarcastic because I don't take anything serious seriously and then tomorrow
I need to whatever I need to definitely focus on more tomorrow I can write that there and it just
kind of helps align things for the next day one of the biggest things I find super super helpful
about this setup is that is today's highlight out of all the things that you have to do in the day
which is a lot of things today's highlight is the one thing out of all of them no matter what else
happens in that day you need to get that one thing done and so today's highlight of that day is two
days ago was completely added and I completed that edit so I was pretty happy about that but
that could be anything it could be finish your emails it could be uh workout that day like one
thing that you really need to get done and you maybe need a little bit more motivation and and
to help kind of clear a path to getting that one big thing done that day today's highlight it feels
great to check that off there we go So within all that the three things that really really changed
my life for the better one is morning Pages it's it's kind of magical honestly uh the other big
big one for me at a brain like mine that never freaking stops is the running to-do list just
being able to just every single time you have a thought of something you got to do just write
that thing down and now it's there you can get it out of your brain you can plan it into your
coming week and having a daily planner set up like this is the third daily practice that I find just
really really changed things for the better for me it's been those three things mixed with this
tablet that I want to use every single day that has me more productive more of a balanced human
being and it keeps me using this ridiculously expensive tablet and I feel good about that so
that is the nearly thousand dollar tablet that does almost nothing yet I pretty much can't
live without it at this point a huge thanks to grovemade for sponsoring the video so make sure
you go check out their Link in the description and we will see you on the next one [Music]