reMarkable’s new Paper Pure is good. That’s why I wrote this review on it.

For years, the central ethos of reMarkable has been to get you away from screens and create an expertise that emulates the sensation of writing with pen and paper. With its new gadget, the reMarkable Paper Pure, the corporate continues the development of making a tool counter-positioned in opposition to telephones, iPads, and laptops. Because it lacks notifications and multitasking apps, the Paper Pure goals to draw writers, designers, and researchers on the lookout for studying and writing with none distractions.

When reviewing gadgets, I sometimes write down or document notes in numerous varieties, throughout completely different apps, and, at instances, on completely different gadgets. However since this gadget is supposed for writing, I assumed it could be becoming to put in writing the evaluation itself on the brand new reMarkable Paper Pure. I’ve written this complete evaluation on the pill utilizing its handwriting conversion characteristic and edited it on WordPress.

The brand new $399 reMarkable Paper Pure pill is the successor to the reMarkable 2, which was launched six years in the past. Within the meantime, the corporate determined to launch the $499 Paper Pro with a shade display and a smaller Paper Pro Move with higher portability.

The Paper Pure goes again to fundamentals with a monochrome show in pocket book dimension. It has a ten.3-inch
display — the identical dimension because the reMarkable 2. However the firm flipped the decision to make the show each wider and shorter. This implies extra textual content matches on the horizontal line, each when studying and writing. I’ve tried the reMarkable 2 previously, and with the brand new pill, the writing expertise is crisper.

Aside from the {hardware} revamp, the corporate included software program options that make it simpler so that you can entry content material exterior of the pill. It additionally improved its handwriting search to allow you to search throughout notes.

One neat new characteristic is which you can now sync your calendar to the pill. This lets you entry assembly particulars from the calendar icon on the gadget after which begin taking notes inside that specific assembly block.

While you’re executed, you possibly can convert handwritten notes and share them with one faucet. You’ll get a hyperlink in your electronic mail to entry these notes and share them with others. After I use assembly note-takers for transcriptions, I discover it useful to look again on my notes so I can add ideas or follow-up inquiries to ask later.

It’s also possible to share your different notes the identical strategy to entry them via electronic mail, or entry them utilizing reMarkable’s new internet app.

reMarkable has labored on enhancing the surface studying expertise with the discharge of Paper Pure. Now, you possibly can ship an article as a local pocket book to the pill, which makes it simpler so that you can spotlight parts, add notes, and ship it to the online app. (I want the corporate would ship articles to a separate folder by default, nonetheless.)

The gadget has improved its efficiency when working with completely different paperwork. You’ll be able to simply combine Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive to import and export paperwork. The paperwork are imported as a pocket book the place you possibly can work on them.

The gadget nonetheless doesn’t deal with PDFs in a perfect approach. After I imported Paper Airplane’s evaluation information, the sides had been reduce off. Whereas reMarkable helps ePUB, the studying expertise is nowhere close to that of a devoted e-reader like Kindle.

reMarkable’s positioning is evident: It’s largely a piece gadget for note-taking, sketching concepts, and studying articles or paperwork. This gadget received’t act as an all-in-one gadget for each studying books and taking notes.

I perceive reMarkable’s place as an augmentative gadget with minimal distracting know-how. I additionally see the enchantment of simply sitting with a tool and jotting down concepts. However as soon as I’ve taken these notes, I’d wish to simply sync them with my different notes and search throughout them. reMarkable doesn’t want so as to add additional AI options to the gadget, however it could be fascinating to see how the corporate approaches integration with different AI instruments after you export the notes.

At $399, the gadget isn’t low-cost. However the core promise of distraction-free writing works. When I’m writing on my MacBook, I admittedly get distracted by apps or by my open tabs, as if I’m opening my fridge for snacks. Prior to now, I’d go to a restaurant to consider some story concepts, however utilizing an internet-connected gadget didn’t work. As I used reMarkable Paper Pure extra, I turned comfy carrying simply that to jot down concepts or begin tough drafts, and received extra assured that its software program might convert my crappy handwriting properly, too.

The Paper Pure’s base $399 mannequin comes bundled with a stylus. There’s additionally a $449 bundle, which features a Marker Plus stylus with an eraser perform, together with a sleeve folio in numerous colours.