introducing the next generation paper tablet
it's like nothing you've ever seen before meet ReMarkable 2
hello everyone and welcome back to the keep productive youtube channel it's francesco here
today we're doing an ultimate review on the remarkable two so i'm going to be giving
you some insights of using it for the last six months and all of the information you
might need to know if you're looking to purchase one for your own productivity now for those who
don't know the remarkable two is a paper e-reader tablet that allows you to do distraction free work
offline and also online connecting it to their notes service it is the second edition of the
remarkable lineup with the remarkable one which we've already done a review on so you can use the
timestamps below if you want to skip ahead to a specific section because we'll be covering design
hardware software pricing and my own experience of using it for the last few months now this tablet
is a crazy 4.7 millimeters and it definitely looks really attractive so let's get started
what the remarkable 2 does now this allows you to create documents use templates upload pdfs
and annotate ebooks and also sign documents as well it's quite a nice blend between digital and
paper and it is really thin so it sort of feels like you are using paper so let's start with its
comparability to the remarkable one it is got three times longer battery from the remarkable
one the remarkable one had pretty good battery life this i would say roughly gives you about
two weeks battery life roughly the same amount as your kindle would do if you were a regular reader
it is also two times more responsive now i would say the first remarkable one was pretty responsive
this feels only a hair more responsive but actually does a good job of writing in real time
and being able to do all of the sort of external annotations sending to email and some of the pen
abilities too so let's focus on the design first this is 4.7 millimeters thin and it's the
world's thinnest tablet it's still in an ipad pro and it also has a gorgeous finish not as good i
say as the ipad but definitely looks stunning it'll catch people's eyes if you're in a coffee
shop for sure and it is less than one pound so it's super light so as i said it has a really nice
finish um what i particularly like is um compared to the remarkable one is the back of the device
the main reason behind that is my my problem was that you get scuffing on the back of the device
and when you're writing on you know you're putting this to a table it can get a bit scuffy and also
it doesn't have that grip on the table but this one does have these little sort of legs on the
back that give you good stability but also doesn't ruin the back so what's really nice as well is the
way that they've designed the pencils the pencils snap onto the device and they are magnetic so
that keeps them stable to the device and also support alongside you can also charge this using
usbc which means you can charge it using the same one that you charge your macbook with and as i
said the battery life is pretty reasonable too for about two weeks takes you with a full battery life
okay so onto the hardware side of stuff so it's a 1.2 gigahertz dual core processor which you don't
really think about because this device isn't an ipad it's not running multiple applications but
it does have great responsiveness when you're using the pen to the paper and it was also
very fast it's got eight gigabytes of internal storage and one gigabyte of ram which i feel
does the job well now this is the wi-fi model i don't think they have a 3g model however
if you wanted to set it up with a personal hotspot i believe you can and the screen itself is roughly
about 10 inches and there is no buttons on the screen compared to the remarkable one unit there
is a button at the top which is the on off button but apart from that a very sleek and clean device
so before we move on to the software and my experience with it it's clear to mention the
pricing so the remarkable 2 is selling for 399. and that's not including some of the additional
accessories that you do get along with it so 399 is quite high for a device like that if you look
and compare it to a basic ipad it's roughly the same price and of course you can do more with
an ipad but i'll come to that later in this video the additional accessories include a pen the pen
that you get as your 49 standard pen does not have the eraser on it but it weighs a fairly reasonable
14 grams and does a great job of writing on the screen it doesn't require charging as well and
it does snap as a magnet onto the side of the unit you can upgrade your pen and get the pro version
which has an eraser on the back of it which works really well and it definitely saves you
time especially when it comes to the software side of stuff so when you add the pro pen and the unit
price that brings you up to 499 so it's a little bit steeper this is designed more for people who
use regular sketching and that doesn't want the ipad for distraction or for those who use regular
annotation of pdfs and ebooks now if you want you can get the folios that are with it this is a very
simple gray folio and that's priced at 69 however you can upgrade to a more posh at 149 leather
folio the additional folios make it portable and also protect your device and especially with such
a thin device like this you want to have that protection and the leather ones do look nice and
you can get them in black and brown although they do come at that steep prices accessories with each
of the purchases you do get a 30-day money-back guarantee so i guess you're able to try it out for
30 days risk-free and return it if you don't like it one of the things as well is each of the pens
come with tips and if you wanted to get additional ones that uh nine are already included in when
you buy a pen however if you want to buy nine more it's 14 which is pretty steep in my opinion so you
have to be very careful with the tips so if you want to get a remarkable one they're priced at 299
which if you want a refurbished one it's slightly cheaper at 249 but still quite high so in my
opinion it's probably better to get the remarkable two competitor remarkable one because there are
some significant upgrades both in the software and the design so whilst we are on the topic
of pricing um obviously this is really designed for people who want a distraction free paper-like
experience so when it comes to the software side of stuff on the remarkable 2 very much like the
remarkable one it runs the same software package and to be honest i'm not a fan of the design of
the software it's very old looking however it does the job at hand you can create folders
notebooks quick sheets and search throughout now when you actually go ahead and create a brand new
document you can use the template gallery to find one to help you to organize that specific
piece of paper or note that what's really great is there are a range of them that is designed
for all different types of situations for artists if they want to draw and sketch something all the
way to professionals that want to take meeting notes or create a checklist for an upcoming
agenda now there are some great annotation abilities the pen works fantastic on this
device and it also has great input improved from the remarkable one meaning you can
lean the pencil and it changes the way that it appears on the screen so that's great for shading
and many different things for creatives but also nice when you're trying to visually demonstrate
something you can change the brush size brush color and also choose from a range of brushes even
with calligraphy in there now one of my favorite things about this device is the send by email this
is great for if you want to share externally and particularly useful if you want and have connected
up things like evernote to it so you can send in files for later you can also change some of the
formats that you send that over in you can also when you write up a page you can convert the text
and send that on which is perfect if you have awful spelling or handwriting for creators
there's a range of options with layers allowing you to add different layers so that you can make
modifications or changes to an existing sketch and you can naturally export that in the png
and pdf formats what i really like as well is the page overview and also changing the view to
landscape as well this is all stuff that you could do in the remarkable one it just continues to
improve in the remarkable two one thing i really like as well is the software updates that come
every three months routinely and the last one was particularly good because you had a zoom in option
which allows you now to zoom into documents and which is perfect for signing things something i
actually recently discovered in the experience so as i said the software does a good job it's not
beautiful however that's a good thing about the software in potential updates in the future
they could improve that so one thing you can do is use the mac app or iphone app or android app
to even upload pdfs or ebooks or any documents that you have to be able to annotate on here i've
done this several times with signing documents and also bringing in scripts for videos and as
i'm doing the video i have it up in front of me now one thing i'm pretty impressed at is the user
interface for the the web and the mac and the iphone applications they work so well and allow
you to upload stuff and it does sync relatively well although it takes a few minutes to bring
down to the device because obviously you need to be in a wi-fi zone to be able to connect it up to
that so one of the new additions to the software is if you're inside of chrome you can get read on
remarkable which is probably one of my favorite features recently they've added this feature so
that you can save a web article in very simple text format to the device for reading later i
really like this because i can save some of the articles i want to read for later and it comes
up on the device and in the evening i can read it ad free basically because there's no ads around it
or complicated css etc around the screen and i can start making annotations or notes for later
and send that into evernote if i fancy so i want to round up some of my thoughts on this device
after using it for six months it's actually become pretty much a daily device for me
i've been doing my journal on here for about five months now and i really like it main reason is
again send it on to evernote um some of the other things i really like about this device is its
lightweight nature and also the fact that it takes you away from the screen on a routine basis
what i like about it as well is because i have the ipad pro i found that i'm not actually using my
ipad pro as much even though there is such range of applications i actually started using this for
task management for planning for routine strategy sessions and even scripting sometimes when i want
to get off the computer i think definitely this device is one that you have to know you want it
before you can buy it it's such a high price and if you're someone that's arming and arring about
getting an ipad or already have an ipad and don't really see the need i'm not sure it's right for
you but if you're someone that wants to create you know a better storage location for your paper or
be able to connect it to digital services without going fully digital then this is actually a really
nice unit for you the remarkable 2 has a stunning design it's reliable and it's very portable it's
got a high price and it's software isn't the most attractive but in my opinion it's probably one
of the best paper tablets on the market now there is a great youtube channel um alex samuels runs a
channel and there's quite a few others that we'll include below but he does some great deep dives
into the remarkable two and how it compares to other tablets in the e-reader space if you do want
to check those out so now on to the opportunity to win your own remarkable two paper tablet if
you follow the instructions that are on screen now you will have a chance of winning that um you can
enter and we're going to pick one of you at random in 14 days time from the launch of this video so
please do follow the instructions to enter and we're excited to give this one away to you guys
the great thing is it will also come with the pen and a leather folio as well which will include so
big thank you to the remarkable team for sending that over to do in this giveaway so
guys this has probably been my most impressive device of the last year i actually use it so
often now i really love using in the evenings um especially because uh the the wife um actually
doesn't notice that i'm using anything or doing any like bit of strategy set and she actually just
forgets that i'm using it because it's not like a glaring screen in your face and i feel actually
more in the room than i do if i'm using something like that um so uh i would give this a really good
rating uh probably a good sort of eight and a half nine out of ten uh if it was an imdb
score so guys a big thanks for stopping by today um it's really nice to do the full review and i'm
excited to share my thoughts about this tablet i'm hoping to do a course soon about the remarkable if
you do decide to get it but if you're new here it'd be great to have a new subscriber so please
join us below anyway guys big thank you and i'll talk to you all very soon cheerio
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