Thank you very much, and I agree wholeheartedly about the lack of basic functionalities, especially for the price. But here's the kicker, Remarkable's marketing strategy is so effective, that a lot of people are still convinced (even when presented with facts to the opposite) that the Remarkable is the cheapest note taking tablet out there. It's actually fascinating to me when I see that type of behavior.

No study, just my own personal experience from an average of 15-20 emails per day that I receive for the past 3 years, and what I personally have encountered from real world users. Their questions, misconceptions, and what I personally have observed on forums, Facebook threads etc. So you know, the "irrelevant" real-world stuff and hands-on experience in communication with hundreds of people over the years.

Thanks Voya for the thorough video. I have been wanting to get an e-ink tablet and thanks to your reviews you have helped me finally decide on one. I’m considering the Boox Air3 monochrome Thanks for all you do

我用rM1已經5年了，一樣沒有中文。每次軟體更新就得scp中文字體進去，不然中文電子書全是亂碼。2018也就算了，都要2024了，我竟然還在做這個動作。

I agree that it is a useful tool for certain use, but if you actually pay attention to what I said, I refered to the case when you have a huge number of tags, that then it becomes useless because of the issues mentioned. So I specified that very clearly.

You can do the point 1 by simply doing a two fingered swipe down from the top edge of the screen. This will show you a quick access to the last documents and notebooks you used, making it super easy to jump between them.

It was mentioned, twice. First in the update 3.8 summary and second time as one of the only two handwriting features that have been added to the platform this year.

I agree no plastic.

There's no hate here for people expressing their use case scenarios, and thank you for sharing :) I totally get it, and I was quite excited about the potential of the type folio, but I find it way too limiting, for example, not being able to utilize the whole page real estate for typed content, and the fact that when you export typed text you have no way of formating it. So even if I wanted to use it for writing stories (which is what I hoped to be able to use it for) it would mean that I would be forced to do complete document reformatting, once it was exported into a PDF file and once the content needs to leave the Remarkable eco system and be handled in other environments. It's woefully incomplete.

​@@MyDeepGuide Perhaps it's because a lot of my work starts on a typewriter as far as my personal writing anyway, but to me this works kind of the same way. I type into it like I would on my typewriter. Then have to copy the text into my computer to work with it beyond that. So I'm used to there being extra steps in my creative processes. But I find it worth it for the lack of nagging that often comes with word processing programs. When I'm trying to get an idea or part of a story out of my head, I'll worry about the spelling, formatting, etc later. The biggest thing for me is to get the words down on something. For that, the reMarkable is pretty much as good as my typewriter. With the added bonus that I can use it at 3:00 when everyone else is sleeping and not wake them up because I've had a stroke of inspiration! ;) But yeah, there are definitely a lot of improvements that could be made, and hopefully we'll see things in the future like fonts, formatting, maybe even export options other than PDF, and if we're really, really lucky, a functional tab key! And if not, I got what I expected out of it over the last 4 years. I'll just move on to whatever best does the job for me next.

Thank you for sharing the details of the leak, I was hoping that there would be someone like you to shar emote complete and accurate information from that leak :)

Well they're a small company joint venture

Thank you for watching :) No, I don't have any information about that. It could be possible, but if we take a look at the entire 2023, we can't see any evidence that their current development team can do something like that. It might be beyond their competency levels and that might be one of the reasons why the updates are the way they are.

Yes, esp tabs. They are completely useless as they are now. Tabs should be alphabetized at a minimum

Thank you, happy you liked it :) Yeah, as good and useful the progression was in 2022 with updates, 2023 just was completely underwhelming and doesn't feel like they put any actual effort into caring about this device / platform and making it even better, as it deserves to be, imho.

In the world of software development calling any of the 3 tiny fixes as features that warant a new sub-version iteration (going from 3.8 to 3.9) is a complete disgrace. There are no other words to use for this example. This should have been labeled Update 3.8.1, and the release notes would be listing 1 bug fix and 2 minor tweaks, which are normally sorted in category of unlisted "other improvements". But, since they didn't do anything else, then they decide to sell it as features and a sub-version bump update.

Yeah, but I already have a laptop. This is a device dedicated to writing and sketching by hand. It makes no sense for me to use it for other functions that it isn't very good at. So they should focus on fixing its problems for its main function.

Thanks for sharing! :) I agree, the hardware engineering and design on Remarkable products is excellent and inspiring! The software side, I've been in enough teams to recognize micro-management crumbs when I see them, and this software development mess reeks of a situation where a perfectly capable team is simply blocked, held in the dark, or in some other way prevented from doing their job to the best of their abilities by senior management not trusting their own team. I have absolutely no information, confirmation or any kind of proof of this, I'm simply saying what it looks like to me, as an outsider with considerable experience in development teams of various sorts.

It not having Android certainly is a selling feature for me. Focus on making a proper experience built directly on-top of Linux instead of a terrible general purpose mobile OS.

I don’t know too much but I do agree with the hardware. I do not like the plastic form factor (I have a Supernote A5X and as much as I appreciate the software and focused writing functionality, its not enough YET along with my use case to get me to drop the Remarkable 2. I will be using my Supernote for some other things though and for whatever reason the current abilities of the Remarkable are fine to me but then again I’m not a software developer so my point of view will vastly differ from those who are technically inclined. It definitely. Has it limitations and I noticed they were only really focused on improvements for the Type Folio. They really need to listen to their users, there are some basic things we need on the writing side to improve our experience but for now the basics of just taking notes it works.

The battery impact would depend on how it was implemented and how often you'd use it.

If you go to the Remarkable Facebook page, you should be able to find people's experiences where they would share exactly where and how the wear and tear happens. It's mostly on the corners, and nothing that ruins the device, but it does wear and tear faster than those people had hoped.

@@MyDeepGuide when i received my folio a few weeks ago i figured the thin faux-leather edges would be delicate so I'm careful with it. Seems like i was right

@@MyDeepGuide in the comments on those posts from about 38 to 40 weeks ago there are people that got a response from Remarkable stating they are working with their factory to avoid the tears where people experienced them with less then 2 months use, so perhaps my newly bought 2 week old type Folio is the "better" version 🤞🤞

they are sorted by how much they‘re used - could be done better but the Tag system itself is super powerful on the RM. Many people do not know how to use them, thats bad, but for me, as a Tag-only user (even on PC) GREAT!

Where did you find that info, I don't have the device yet. I would like see how that is shown on the unit. ?@@airestocky

Lolz

No, it really isn't.

A bad bug as I see it. I hope Remarkable corrects that soon. (A temporary solution, which includes using the marker, is given below).

Well, it's still in beta, so hopefully it's on their radar. If not, you can submit a bug report, to make sure that they are aware if it, and that they can fix it for the final rollout version :) support.remarkable.com/s/contactsupport/troubleshooting

In fact, I am not at all enrolled in the beta testing. This was just automatic updates set to ON, and receiving a regular update. It happened just yesterday. Thank you for the link! It was very helpful. I complained there, and they identified the problem. For the moment, one can use only the MARKER to deselect the notebook name and position the cursor. In the next version, they promise to make it possible again to do the notebook name correction by tapping on the text with a finger. (As for me at least, putting the marker aside was a preferable move when the keyboard pops up.) @@MyDeepGuide

Oh, then it must have just started rolling out. Well, even so, as a user, reporting the problem to them will ensure that they will be aware of it. The problem won't go away on it's own, they have to fix it, and the best way to make sure that happens is to report the problem to them :)

What is their ad budget? How small a percentage should they cut it by?

@@GaryLangEngr I don't know but all I see are ads and zero new devices. The money used in the iJustine ad alone could probably hire a few people.

@@GaryLangEngr I get the distraction free focus, but once a product starts to slow down that becomes a major distraction. Features like infinite page, layers, and geometric shapes are difficult to implement on an older and slower CPU. Maybe adding this was a mistake? Also, once someone sees the resolution of a 300ppi device, like the Scribe, the RM2 becomes noticeably dated. I would be happy with a spec bump alone, call it the RM2s.

So much feature bloat a paper tablet doesn't need

@@0xbenedikt we all have different use cases

It’s meant to replace a paper notebook. So it’s sticking as close to that as possible.

Yes, it's 2024. It's the future we're living in. OCR worked better 25y ago. I remember 'Omnipage professionel' for example ...

Well, your starting premise is wrong. Who said that Remarkable is a failure?

No, it's not a broad term, it's a very exact term, so you are either using it incorrectly, or you are trying to distract from the fact that your original point was wrong and not based on facts, or are not the type of a person who is able to say "Sorry my bad, I was wrong to generalize and assume there." Which it is, is going to be made 100% clear by your follow up response. More importantly, weren't you the person who also said "you shouldn't use or amplify statements that allude to words that aren't supported by access to data"? Well then, where is the data for "KZfaqrs say Remarkable is a failure" and "over a million users disagree with almost everything the KZfaqrs say"? Where's your data coming from in these overly generalized statements, other than the press release from the company that tooted it's own horn, just before they needed to do an investment round that they were now valuated at 1B usd (which for a private company is just a non-verifiable estimate without any legal standing or obligations), and that they shipped 1M units of both RM1 and RM2 since 2017. Do you actually have any data, or are you "amplifying statements that haven't been verified by data"? You are putting an equal sign between non-verifiable 1M shipped units of RM1 and RM2, since 2017 until now and the number of current real-world users, and not taking into consideration the returns, the defects, users who did buy it, but never use it, or that a fair number of those users tried the device, and then went on over to another platform or returned to their old platform. Nope, you seem to conveniently ignore all of that, slap a big fat equal-or-higher-than sign and say without any shred or an inkling of data to support your statement, that not only are there now "over a million Remarkable users" out there (which is factually unsupported), but on top of that, "they disagree with almost everything KZfaqrs say" (again factually unsupported and unverifiable because of the overly generalized nature of the statement). You just demonstrated, using your own words, how biased you are and how the standards you hold others against don't apply to you, and that seriously devalues the weight and credibility of your supposed arguments and statements.

Do you honestly believe that I would be even mentioning this if I was talking out of my own ass? Yes, I am very familiar with the organizations and the rules (how these things actually work in practice in Norway, not on paper), but I'm not going to be publicly elaborating on that, as I live and work in this country, and I too want to grow my company, over time :D. And while we don't have publicly available the valuation report, to see how did they get to that number, the cool thing about Norway is that all of the tax reporting is a matter of public record (even private companies), and you can check for yourself. www.proff.no/selskap/remarkable-as/oslo/internettdesign-og-programmering/IF661Z80C2C So these are the numbers throughout the lifetime of the company: - Total sales: ~670M usd - Total profit: ~33M usd (only 4.9% net profit margin, which is by any measure considered as low) - Tax Reportable: ~22M usd Liquidity of the company is calculated as Satisfactory, but barely and on the borderline with Weak categorization, with a 15.1% decline. Profitability of the company is calculated as Good with a 20.9% decline. Stability is calculated as Good, with a 4.8% rise. This is the reliable, operating, non-fictional, non-estimates data regarding the company's health and overall state and it says that this is a company with barely Satisfactory Liquidity with a declining trend, Good profitability with a strong declining trend (although I expect this to get a positive bump when 2023 figures are calculated due to the release of the Type Folio) and Good stability, with a subtle rising trend. So, a strong, successful, and stable company, but with a notable declining trend. And before you jump on it, yes, I do understand how valuations work, but whichever approach they used (valuation ratios, DCF analysis, IRR, or combination of all), you'd have to get very creative and optimistic with market growth, sales and value projections, and cash flow to reach the figure of 1B valuation. I don't doubt the valuation, it is a matter of fact, obviously, but the data strongly suggests, that the valuation in question, in my opinion, seems to be based on very optimistic, non-tangible hopes, projections, and plans, not on the factual state or trend of the company as it stands today.

Interesting info. I just bought the Rm2 and enjoy using it a lot. I do hope to get some serious updates to the ability to read and copy text from epubs and PDFs. The reading is pretty good, but I really would like to be able to copy text and maybe have a dictionary available for quick word definitions and checkups. There's also shapes they could introduce, like boxes, a triangle, and a circle. I really like the feel of the device and enjoy the fact that I'll never need to look for my notes again. I think I fit their market perfectly, as I see the distraction free philosophy as a huge plus. Screw android and their endless apps. But remarkable needs to start ironing out their software to make it as smooth and intuitive as possible. I think Remarkable would do well to drop the price of their device to something more manageable. It's way too expensive right now for less committed people. I think somewhere around 300 € with the pen would be a good spot, if in any way possible. It's the interaction and feel with the device that's a bullseye in my opinion. They don't need to worry about powerful processors or gimmicky features IMHO. Just make the things I do with their hardware sing. Great feedback in your part. Remarkable would do well in paying attention.

It is, but I just wish that they'd actually do some more serious work on it to improve things that have been stagnating for quite some time. 2022 introduced a lot more focused and useful updates and has advanced the platform considerably. It's disappointing to see a complete change in the direction and quality delivered in 2023.