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The Remarkable 2 is a valuable tool for architects and designers seeking a digital sketchbook and note-taking experience, but it should complement rather than replace an iPad, especially for tasks requiring finer control and PDF markups.
...Is this the sketchbook replacement we've waited for?...
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...For studying, these are excellent devices because you have access to PDFs and your notes and on PDFs you can take notes...
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✍️ Excellent sketchbook and notebook replacement
...For digital sketchbooks and notebooks, it's a really good device, especially since you can hold that many different notebooks and sketchbooks all inside of here...
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🖊️ Realistic writing and sketching experience
...The experience of writing on this with the stylus and the micro-textured surface is really good, it's almost like writing on paper...
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📤 Easy sharing capabilities
...Sharing is actually a big one. So you can share parts of notes, it has handwritten recognition, so it's actually quite good for sharing...
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✂️ Useful for copying and resizing sketches
...There are some primitive tools to copy an area and then paste it somewhere else...you can also rescale things as well...
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📝 Variety of background templates
...“There are loads and loads of background templates to choose from, which can aid in the design process.”...
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🖥️ Desktop and mobile apps for versatility
...Well, it's got apps for desktop and for mobile devices. As the software matures, those apps are getting a little bit more useful...
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🔄 Good cloud service for syncing notes
...Connect will make a lot more sense once there's this whole ecosystem because then it becomes a service that you pay for, for the syncing features...
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😩 Battery issues in Remarkable 1
...The battery on this thing only lasted. The battery isn't just bad on the Remarkable 1, it is horrible...
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🖋️ Inconsistent pen pressure sensitivity
...When you press on the pen, you have to press a little bit more so it doesn't pick up maybe the first 10% from light to starting to pick up heavy and then the lines are more or less the same...
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✏️ Pencil tool lacks smooth gradient transition
...Going from an upright position to an angled position, there is a very kind of hard switch, which happens at around maybe 45 degrees...
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📧 Basic sharing features
...But to be fair, these days everybody's gotten used to getting emails with a photo of a sketchbook, so even the sharing is not that special compared to having sketchbooks...
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...Within the Remarkable, there's no way to turn the opacity down of a page...
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🎨 Limited sketching and drawing capabilities
...This doesn't have that and that's definitely not a replacement...
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🚫 Not a full replacement for an iPad
...For me, this does not replace an iPad for architects and sketching in any way whatsoever...
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💸 High overall cost
...On paper it looks very cheap, but then you have to add the marker and the folio. And then the marker is, I think the base one is like 79 pounds, euros, dollars...
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