An Architect's Review of the Remarkable 2 tablet. True sketchbook alternative or a gimmick?

The Remarkable 2 is the simplest tablet with a stylus that allows you to read, write, and sketch. It has its own completely unique ecosystem, with apps for other devices for notes. It works with PDFs, on which you can sketch directly, creating your own notebooks. Recently, they have also added the funcitonaly to type notes or convert handwritten notes to text. In this review, I focus mostly on how this device is useful for creatives and whether it can replace a sketchbook and an iPad with an Apple Pencil.

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*Chapters*
00:00 - Intro
01:00 - For studying
01:09 - the big issue with Remarkable 1 and the fix in Remarkable 2
02:19 - Using for writing and sketching
04:08 - sharing notes
05:01 - Unique digital feautures that enhance the sketchbook experience
06:38 - Mobile and desktop apps
07:13 - comparison for PDF markups with iPad
08:15 - compared to the ipad for finer sketches and drawings
08:55 - where does the Remarkable fit?
09:30 - A sketching and note-taking ecosystem?
10:38 - Connect - Paid cloud service and what works without it
11:02 - My Recommendation
11:46 - Bad marketing for selling the device
12:36 - When to get an ipad and when to get a Remarkable?

[SheriCarthan-MinistryHelp]

Awesome review! I was surprised by your final recommendation of getting the iPad before the rM2. But this is what made me appreciate the review even more. You weren’t influenced by companies, but gave your personal professional opinion. Thank you!

[kerrin]

I really like the way you structured your video and your attentiveness and thoughtfulness to your review. I agree with your summary. Thanks for that. I think your conscientious comes through the screen. It's kept me watching. Thanks for your video posting!

[emmanuelfleurot]

Thanks for the review. I was wondering what could be not nice on this device. You answered these questions. Nice job !

[TheMaxbw]

Big part of this is it is taking away blue light which is giving us all the well needed break from screen time! I love this device. I'd love to see a tools pallet with basic shapes, lines making it easier to draw certain things but this is just an update away if enough of us ask ;)

[chckm]

you're right about the remarkable 1 battery life. Good thing I bought it used for just $100.
It really does only last 2-3 days of use for something that doesn't do a lot of heavy processing is quite unacceptable.

[jadebaker]

Thanks for the great review! Very honest and covered all my queries. Cheers👍

[loumarcellinoQ]

This was a great review. It made me further appreciate how important it is to find the device best suited to our individual needs. Thank you sir!

[johnfraney]

Thanks for your review. I enjoyed it. You have good presentation and delivery. I wish I were an architect. I'm a software engineer. My diagrams don't have hard constraints. Width and height have no meaning. But I can appreciate the perspective of real world architecutre. I enjoyed your presentation. I felt that you enjoyed it too. Thanks.

[Driii]

Wow this was a great review you touched all bases and I feel like I have a good amount of knowledge to make my decision!

[shaun]

I'm an Industrial Designer, very much closer to your profession. I also use iPad Pro + Procreate. But the use cases for RM2 for me is quick sketching and ideation. I don't need the fancy brush strokes, colorization, adjustments in iPad/Procreate. Your use case of turning down a PDF opacity and marking annotation doesn't apply to me. I found doing a pencil sketch on a product idea on an iPad/Procreate is just not natural. RM2 fill that gap nicely. As a matter of fact I don't even use iPad/Procreate that much except for painting digital art. But taking a photo with my paper and pencil sketch and put it in my presentation still dreading over the shaded paper background is a pain for me. I love paper/pencil sketches if they're only stay in their respective medium(paper). The moment you digitize them and use them in some other digital format, it's a pain. RM2 pencil sketches can have PNG transparent background, also they can be turned into a vector based artwork is a joy for me. So back to your comment: depends on what you want to do with it. EXACTLY. RM2 might just be the thing I'm looking for. You might want to cover some other use cases why RM2 is way better than iPad. Battery comparison is night and day. Plus, I don't need to charge RM2 stylus, same can't be said about Apple Pencil. Really, iPad and RM2 are two different beasts, apples and oranges. Can't really compare.

[CleanTactix]

Appreciate the review. I am debating buying the remarkable to do my rough sketches while designing furniture.

Most of the time it involves photos of a sketchbook for my clients. Once selected, I fully design in Sketchup on PC prior to building. Ipad didnt seem to great with SketchUp.

I think based on your review, it would be a good way to digitize my notebooks and share with clients.

Im curious how well the svg files would load into SketchUp with extensions too.

Do you have any experience using Sketchup with the remarkable?

[StephenCoorlas]

Looks really nice to write/draw on, might need to give this a try 🤘

[ArtScienceWonder]

I hope the new CMYK e-readers that will be coming out in 2023 and 2024 hurry up and realize they could really market to architects and artists and get to making software for us!

[sinespag]

Hi, the video is great, and you covered many really useful points. I do have a crucial question that is essential for me, and I couldn't find any content creator discussing it. Since I see you responding to comments, I'll go ahead and ask, hoping the video isn't too old: Is it possible to have unlimited canva? I work with a lot of diagrams, and being restricted to a single page (currently using paper) is a significant issue for me. So, do the note-taking features offered by the Remarkable 2 provide this type of template?

[DayaMcCarthy]

Thank you for this video.
The background music was a bit distracting and loud other than that fantastic video.

[kristinakubalova-vh]

Would you recommend this for interior designer ?

[ghoyarbide]

excelente como siempre. disfruto la excelencia de tus videos. aun no comence el curso, pero supongo que este es el año.

[juancanas]

Hi everyone and thanks for the video UH. Does the iPad cause a lot of eye strain? If remarkable is less fatiguing, would it still be worth buying an iPAD?

[Outlinescommunications]

One problem with saying "sync" with DropBox etc, is that they don't actually "sync" unless it's with Connect's servers.

A few YT videos talk about it. If you "sync" with Dropbox, it just sends a pdf copy there that's not editable. If you update the note on your device and "sync" with Dropbox again, it uploads a second copy of the same file. It doesn't actually overwrite it with the same name.

[goboldly]

I'm an IT Engineer and I take a lot of mtg notes, notes as I'm debugging something (I have tons of post-it notes) that clutter a white board, and need to frequently draw illustrations, flow diagrams and other IT related hand drawn charts, graphs and diagrams on the fly. I've been considering the RM2 for some time but still not sure if it's right for me. I hate the iPad and Apple pencil for note taking due to the slickness of the glass surface, the glare on the eyes, and having to keep the pencil charged. The RM2 sounds like maybe a tool that would help eliminate some of the documentation taking and organization headache. If I consider the RM2 mostly as a note taking input and reading device for reference PDFs, maybe it would be a good fit. Having the ability to centrally manage my doc from the PC is essential. Does RM2 have ability to access Dropbox? Google Drive?