It’s easy to see why this tablet works for a journalist, or for anyone who’s constantly juggling multiple projects which each require separate documents for notes. But I have enjoyed it on a personal level, too, and it’s a great companion for any traveler. It’s a fantastic device for reading and marking up documents with handwritten notes, and a great way to organize your notes for travel. I have several travel planning folders on my device where I draft itineraries, make notes when I’m pricing out flights for flexible travel days, and write down important contacts.
Each page in a reMarkable notebook can be infinitely expanded vertically, so I will usually make a new page for each day of my trip, and a new notebook for each trip, to stay organized. The automatic convert-to-text feature is not perfect, but it’s pretty impressive, should you want to neaten up your words. You can set up a passcode on the device to keep your musings private.
ReMarkable is constantly updating its user interface, such as adding Google Drive integration and making its convert-to-text options more effective. You can now also take notes in the reMarkable desktop and mobile apps from other devices whenever it’s more practical for you to work from a computer. Unlike some other tablets, there’s no Kindle book integration, which I do wish it had, but a clever browser extension—that converts web pages to PDFs and delivers them to the device with a single click—works overtime to make up for it. I often use this to send articles about my destination to my device, creating my own personal guidebook for my adventure. You can also send PDF versions of important documents to your device, so you can have a spare digital copy if needed. And of course, you can use it as a nearly infinite travel journal.
