– Hi, my name is Jasper and welcome back to the channel. In case you're new here, I'm an entrepreneur and
remote marketing consultant. And in this video I wanna
talk about the Remarkable 2. I picked up the Remarkable 2
in the beginning of this year, I think in February. So I've been using it for
a couple of months now and I thought this was a
great time to do a review about Remarkable 2 and go over the things that I love about this device, but also the things where I think there is some room for improvements. So the first thing that I
want to get out of the way is the Remarkable 2 is an
entirely different device than an iPad Pro, which I also own. And this is something that I
will clarify along the way. So first let's start with
the different use cases I have for this device.
First of all, I take notes on it. It's really nice to take notes on. It has some kind of like paper feel when you're writing on it. There's not a lot of lag when
you're writing on the device which is really nice. And also, and this is one
of the main selling points which I go into a bit deeper,
further on in the video. And that's that the Remarkable
2 is distraction free. The second thing that I use Remarkable for is to read articles. So on my laptop, I have
the Chrome extension, Remarkable's Chrome extension installed. And this allows me that when
I come across a blog post, for example, during the day, I can easily add this to my Remarkable to read it later on the device.
This comes really in handy
for my evening routine. Something that I will get into as well. The third thing that I use it for is to read and annotate bigger documents. So if I have larger PDFs, multiple pages that I need to read and review the Remarkable is perfect for this. Again for a distraction free part of it, but also to have a paper feel like, and something easy to send out your notes after we are done reviewing the documents. And then last but not least,
I also use it to read books but unfortunately there
aren't a lot of books that you can really have
available on this device. As of the recording of this video the Remarkable 2 only
works with DRM-free books. I hope this is something
that I will change soon because it would be great if I could read more books on this device.
I really think that
the size of this device which is a bit bigger than a Kindle is really great for reading books. Now, as I said earlier, the main reason, the main selling points that
they have for Remarkable 2 is it being a distraction
free device, which is great. And which is also the main reason why I bought the device
in the first place. Now let me explain. If I'm working on my iPads it's very easy for me to
have access to the internet, to be distracted by a notification. I know I can put on do not disturb, but for notifications this will work but for the other things not so much. Whereas the Remarkable 2 basically only has an internet connection to sync documents with your computer. So it doesn't have an internet browser. It doesn't have any notifications. It doesn't have Androids. If you are reading
something on this device it's basically more or less the same than if you are just
holding a piece of paper and reading something on there.
Now the display of the device
uses something called E-ink and this also makes it
a really great device to work on in direct sunlight. One of us traveling in Portugal in the beginning of this year and also the time when
I picked up this device. I used it multiple times while working outside indirect sunlight. And it works perfectly. It's basically more or less the same than if you're reading on a paper. Note to build further on this feature of the device using E-ink. This also makes it a great device for incorporating in your evening routine. I don't know about you, but in the evening I like to minimize my screen
time before I go to bed. But because the Remarkable uses E-ink, I can still use the
device right before bed to, for example, read through an article that I save during the day, or to prepare for the day ahead. For this last part Remarkable also offers some great templates within the device. This includes templates
for your week planning and your day planning along a lot of other templates as well.
Another big advantage
of the usage of E-ink is that the battery life
on this device is amazing. I recharge it, I think every two weeks, maybe every month now. This will really depend
on the amount of time that you will use the
device, but in general I only recharge it every
other week, for example. So the battery life on this
device is really great. Now, one last thing that I
really like about this device and that I didn't really
expect in the beginning is that it also gets regular updates and it really gets better to use. I didn't really expect this because in comparison
to an iPad, for example, it has a much smaller user base. And usually these devices
get less updates over time. But so far I would say
that I get on average one update a month and the
experience of the device really improves with every update. This is something I really like. That being said let's get into
a couple of the improvements.
First improvement being the companion apps that come with a device. So when you're using the iOS app, the iPad iOS app, the mag app, these apps will allow
you to access the files that you have on your Remarkable. Note, these apps feel
really unnative to me. So they try to more or less mimic the experience that you
have on the Remarkable itself. But because these are different devices it feels a bit off to me. On the Remarkable itself, it works great because you have the E-ink and it's like different experience to use. But on my iOS device or on my Mac, I really would like the experience that I'm used to on these devices. And then the second improvements, and this is something that I
already talked about before that is that it only allows you to read DRM-free books right now. These are two things
that I really would like to see change in the future.
And then this would be an
even more amazing device and I can recommend it to even more people to actually use it. Now, do you yourself see
a use case for this device or would you much rather
just keep it with one device, like for example, an iPad or an iPad Pro. And try to be more disciplined to not get distracted
while using that device. Leave your thoughts
and the comments below. Also, don't forget to like this video, subscribe to my channel for
weekly new videos each Wednesday and I'll see you in the next one. Bye. (relaxing music).
