Hey everyone. I’ve been heavily researching the Remarkable 2 tablet for the last few months and I’ve always been interested in it, yet never took the plunge. There are now quite a few options for E-Ink readers and digital notebooks. It’s very overwhelming. However, with that said, I decided on purchasing the Remarkable 2 device because I want a device that is simple and good at what it does. I don’t want a tablet experience with the option of taking notes. I feel like many other digital notebooks are a jack of all trades master of none. I’m reading how although Remarkable’s features are limited, it’s great at what it does, and that’s what I’m looking for. Also trying to get into deeper work and reduce all distractions.
I am looking to use this device to help with my professional school work, keeping notebooks for those subjects and also to help manage my household. One of those topics being budgeting. Am I able to upload paper statements to the remarkable? My understanding is that there is an app or a dashboard that I can use to sync documents to the Remarkable? Ideally, I would love to have my cash budgeting documented inside of the remarkable and statements where I can make notes things of that nature. Is that possible with this device?
Also, sidenote, the one thing that was also holding me back with this purchase is the complaints of customer service. I’m just trying to be optimistic though, and hopefully things will go well. I’d love to take advantage of the Black Friday sale. Thank you for your time!
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It’s definitely not good for your budget 😹
I’m still relatively new to the device myself but if you mean keeping track of expenses and logging them, I’d think not.
The use case is for note taking and PDF reading. There is no spread sheet like function where you put in #s and it calculates for you.
if HOWEVER all you mean is you take a picture of your receipts and mark them up with notes, it should work fine. The app sync is pretty good, where your RM2 desktop and phone app are all synced over WiFi.
This device excels at replacing hand written notebooks, so if your looking at it for school, it’s a game changer. I’v said before, I wish this device was around when I was in school a decade ago…I always had countless hand written notebooks.
You can upload your statements and bills into it sure, but for budgeting it will help you as much as a piece of paper will: you can set up a notebook or a template or upload a (in your case register) PDF but have a calculator handy because it’s not a spreadsheet.
Depending on how complex you get it still may work. I could probably move my personal bill tracking method into the Remarkable, but some people expect Mint, which this won’t be.
I was initially worried about storage space for you, but I’ve been paperless almost a decade now and my bills collection is 500MB. So ?? should be fine ??
Thank you! I am honestly looking to use this device to hold multiple notebooks for school/home. The most basic of budgets I am doing and wanted the ability to have a folder on the device where I can store bills in one place to refer back to and make notes. Now that I know thats an option, Im giving it a try. Ive been using paper planners and books for a decade plus. Want a simpler more streamlined method.
I don’t understand most of the comments here. They seem to think you need a spreadsheet, when you were pretty clearly asking about uploading documents. The comments are way too negative for something that works great!
So my documents are in OneDrive, but Google Drive or Dropbox work the same. You set up the connection between reMarkable and your cloud drive on the reMarkable website. Then, right from the reMarkable device you can import a new copy of the document, and write on it like any other file. It can import Office documents (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), PDFs, ePub files, and image files (jpg, png), and Google files (Docs, Slides, Sheets). So if you have an Excel budget, you can pull it right in, or if you have a statement in a PDF file or even take a picture of a piece of paper, you can import them in. I haven’t done much with Excel, but I think it’s “printing” a copy, so I think you need to do a print preview on your computer and get your print settings set up and saved first for best results before importing. You can also import files via the reMarkable app, but I just do it from the reMarkable device. Why switch to another device and risk distraction!
Note with all of this, you are importing a new copy to the reMarkable. It is completely separate from the original copy. Think of it like a photocopy or print-out. If you want to access the reMarkable copy elsewhere, you can use the reMarkable app from your phone or Windows/Mac computer, or you can send the file via email or export them from the reMarkable device back to a cloud drive.
If you are doing simple tracking or simple math, you’ll love it. I do health tracking on mine, and even chart my weight daily. The lack of distractions and ease of integration with my cloud files works perfectly for me.
This article covers setup and use of cloud services with pictures: https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Integrating-with-Google-Drive-Dropbox-and-OneDrive#
And this one shows exporting files: https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Exporting-files
To print a file, I open it from my phone and print from the app. Unless you have printer that accepts email (some do!), this is easiest way to print a reMarkable document.
In short, this is a great device and if you are looking for focus and productivity, I highly recommend it!
Thank you so much for your feedback, Im not sure why some of these threads get so hostile. It seems to be a theme with a lot of these e-ink device subreddits. I am just looking for a basic notebook with some elevated features that i can use for school/home. Im so not interested in an LCD screen or ipad type of tablet. Im not sure if the way I worded my post was off putting 🤷♀️
Thank you for this comment, I really appreciate it. I am saving it to refer back to when I order the device. I think it will definitly be what I need to help wrangle some of these paper notebooks I drag around!
I’m using my remarkable every day in school and it works great. really great. I got all my important documents on it which I upload in the evening via the remarkable cloud from my computer: lists of names, stories I want to read, my mostly important preparation file, I make notes, read, without any delay. It’s a easy and smooth to use device.
It’s the best you can get, because the students are not distracted by any screen-light, no colours…
You can even take it with you in the chair circle (if this is the correct name of a “Stuhlkreis”).
The reMarkable subreddit is usually pretty tame, but in general, an iPad hating group, but I think they were afraid you might be trying to add numbers without a spreadsheet or calculator and they panicked at the thought of anyone doing a column of sums with a pencil…
All joking aside, come back and ask more questions here after you get your reMarkable. This really is a helpful group!
At this price point, there’s not a device on the market that’s GOOD for budgeting, but sure, it’ll let you write down whatever you want!
if ur only intested in studying i would its the best e ink currently. however its hardware is a bit outdated with only 1gb of ram so consider that. u can also buy an iPad for around the same price on black Friday and do more with it, tho it writing experience might not be as crisp