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doop ordered a ReMarkable 2 (like a cross between a Kindle and an iPad -- e-paper device) for me, and it arrived this week. It is very good at doing what it claims to do: it really does feel very like writing with a pencil or similar on paper. (Not quite so much like a fountain pen, which is what I normally use, but fountain pens are a bit specific, given that I have different ones that feel different to write with, and it's still not far off.) There's some texture to the screen, which makes it a much nicer experience than using an Apple Pencil on the slidey glass screen of an iPad. The texture does mean that the stylus nib wears down; they give you about a dozen spares with the thing itself.
The handwriting recognition is very good, even with my (fairly loopy, joined-up) handwriting, though you can only convert-to-text to send it by email; unlike, eg the Nebo app on the iPad, you can't convert it and save the converted version back to the device. It is great for making notes in a phone conversation (I hate doing that with a keyboard, even with the phone on speaker/hands-free), because you can make the notes and then automatically convert them to text.
I gather it's nice for drawing on; I am not much of an artist, but it feels fun to mess around with.
I am still a bit dubious about whether I really have a use case for it...and if I do, whether this + phone replaces the iPad mini (quite possibly? in which case I could eBay the iPad?). I've been doing some Nano drafting on it though as a kind of end-run around days when I've been struggling to pick up the laptop, and that has worked well. I quite like drafting by hand but I hate typing it up afterwards. Maybe that's enough of a reason, if I do start using it regularly for that :)
doop ordered a ReMarkable 2 (like a cross between a Kindle and an iPad -- e-paper device) for me, and it arrived this week. It is very good at doing what it claims to do: it really does feel very like writing with a pencil or similar on paper. (Not quite so much like a fountain pen, which is what I normally use, but fountain pens are a bit specific, given that I have different ones that feel different to write with, and it's still not far off.) There's some texture to the screen, which makes it a much nicer experience than using an Apple Pencil on the slidey glass screen of an iPad. The texture does mean that the stylus nib wears down; they give you about a dozen spares with the thing itself.The handwriting recognition is very good, even with my (fairly loopy, joined-up) handwriting, though you can only convert-to-text to send it by email; unlike, eg the Nebo app on the iPad, you can't convert it and save the converted version back to the device. It is great for making notes in a phone conversation (I hate doing that with a keyboard, even with the phone on speaker/hands-free), because you can make the notes and then automatically convert them to text.
I gather it's nice for drawing on; I am not much of an artist, but it feels fun to mess around with.
I am still a bit dubious about whether I really have a use case for it...and if I do, whether this + phone replaces the iPad mini (quite possibly? in which case I could eBay the iPad?). I've been doing some Nano drafting on it though as a kind of end-run around days when I've been struggling to pick up the laptop, and that has worked well. I quite like drafting by hand but I hate typing it up afterwards. Maybe that's enough of a reason, if I do start using it regularly for that :)
