reMarkable really is Remarkable

It took me a long time to make the jump, but I finally did, and my god is the reMarkable tablet a joyful product.

My long time colleague and friend have used the devices since they first came out, and have always been raving about them, but I always felt I have enough devices and my needs were met on the note-taking front with pen and paper. However over the last months I've been having issues with organizing all my handwritten notes and notebooks and it came to a point where I re-evaluated the reMarkable again.

Not only is it a pure joy to take notes in, but the whole way or organising it all felt very natural from the get-go. No fuss, no complicated tagging systems to deal with. Just simple folders and files and a clear and thought through way of navigating between it all.

The apps for Mac and my iPhone are also great. Especially useful is it to just scan documents (or notes I've had flying around on paper) directly into the tablet, and continue the document there.

The kids love it too, and I find it uncomparable to other digital devices they use in terms of "screen-time". They draw, colorize, write and most importantly create instead of consume with it.

As I'm quite into chess lately, I also made a little tool for generating chess puzzle pdf's for it, so that I can avoid the glaring OLED/LCD/whatever-screens and enjoy the calmness of e-ink. Also enjoying the absolute abundance of notifications. Link to the tool: remarkablechess.com

Oh, and did I mention it's a Norwegian company? As a norwegian myself it's pretty cool to see it have some success among giants like Amazon and Apple.

Check it out at remarkable.com. The one I got was the Paper Pro. Can highly recommend it.