A few weeks ago someone convinced me to give the Remarkable 2 a shot. It's an eInk screen with a stylus (in the same way the iPhone is a phone with a touch screen). I absolutely love this thing. My new favorite "Tool for Thought". Highly recommend!

I got one a couple of weeks ago, I use a CLI tool to upload pdfs that are "printed" versions of web articles, most times using the readability view on firefox before printing. Then I can go read, highlight and add notes on the margins without distraction. The tool is this one: https://gitlab.com/wrobell/remt/

Thanks @Mariano Guerra! That also led me to https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable . Lots to explore!

Yes I have one too it's great. I've had it since launch actually but I haven't got round to hacking on it yet. I have a script that saves the Guardian's Quiptic crossword as PDF.

I love it, I've been hacking together a static site generator for it: https://davidrusu.github.io/

I have been using an Onyx Boox (https://shop.boox.com/) e-ink tablet in much the same way for a bit more than a year now. It runs Android, so there's plenty of software and I can even nerd out with Termux (basically a Linux shell with a large set of packaged software).

Love it @David Rusu! I'm trying to signup but getting red

@Breck Yunits It's not ready quite yet! I'll ping you once it's operational

I have an iPad Pro which I find great for sketching. I presume the Remarkable provides the same experience, only "e-inky"?

Yes @Nick Smith, I have an iPad Pro with pencil for the same thing. The feel of the Remarkable is dramatically better. Has a soft wearable tip and the surface has some friction. It also feels lighter. And it's much less distracting. It has none of the noise and interruptions of my iPad. If I could have just one, I'd go with Remarkable hands down. There are a few things that the iPad is great at that I'll keep using it for (marking up screenshots, 3d stuff, facetime/zoom), but for thinking now it's all about the remarkable for me.

I see! I should find somewhere to try it out then...

One caveat is I've had iPads for many years, remarkable is new. Maybe the novelty will wear off in a few months. Not sure

I have been using my e-ink tablet in parallel with an iPad. With no intention to abandon either one. They may seem like the same tool except for the screen, but that makes all the difference.

@Breck Yunits I'm curious if the novelty has worn off now that it's a few months later? 😁

@Andrew Reece nope! It's sitting here right next to me. I use it multiple times per day most days.

Here's a review from someone I respect on Twitter:

That's never happened to me but I can believe it. It's a pretty small company. They just rolled out Drive/Dropbox sync which makes the possibility of rolling your own backup/history much easier