Hello Remarkable Community,
I’m excited to share that my Remarkable device has just arrived. I got it to enhance my focus and productivity, particularly because I have ADHD. However, I’m looking for guidance on how to optimize organization using folders, tags, and notebooks.
If you’re an experienced user, I’d greatly appreciate your insights into how you make the most of these features to maintain an efficient and well-organized Remarkable. Are there any valuable tips, tricks, or best practices that you can share?
Thank you in advance for your help and expertise!
i map my remarkable notes in The Brain to organize notes, etc (https://www.thebrain.com). have used this since the dot.com days in the 2000’s. amazing, underrated app
I received mine 1 week ago, but unfortunately I’m not happy because I’m surprised how the lag it is. Also no more tools , for example you can’t draw any shapes or straight line , only manual . Don’t know by time I’ll be satisfied or not . But first impression and first week , I’m not happy at all even don’t like to use it . 😕 Sorry for such negative observations, but for me it’s fact .
Straight lines are coming! The current beta has them and I’m so happy. IDK if they’ll add shapes with the next official release or if that’s up next/soon for beta, but I’m sure it’s in the pipeline somewhere. Sorry you aren’t enjoying it. I do find it gets tripped up with a lot of accidental zooming when using it for drawing, but the layers feature works well.
The beta version lets you draw straight lines.
I know, sow the review, but I feel that the box note 3c is much better, just from the reviews, not tried it yet
No need to be sorry — good and bad experiences are great to hear. I’ve observed a bit of lag when zooming in, but it hasn’t been too frustrating as of yet.
If it doesn’t completely meet your expectations, taking advantage of the 100-day return period might be the best option.
I don’t like the lag as well. I use the app on my phone and laptop to research and my rm to write up the new task list. Pulling up pages and notebooks are faster on the apps
I work from my car a lot so when I arrive at a clients I quickly cobble together my action plan and record anything I need for next visit
One thing that helped me stay a little more organized was to only keep a few notebooks on the main screen that I use frequently, everything else goes into a designated folder/subfolder.
For the main screen, I keep a to do list, quick sheets, and meeting notes. One thing that I did after reading an article about keeping it organized is to make a cover page for each of those and set the first page to always display in the thumbnail. It is just a simple bubble letter page but makes it a lot easier to identify quickly.
I don’t use tags at all because I use a label system for folders and notebooks that is a little more descriptive. I am a developer and use my tablet for reading a lot. I have a folder called “Books”. I split that into sub folders for each language that the book is dealing with. In each of those sub folders, I have another level of sub folders that are the level of difficulty/experience. Folders are great for organizing as long as they are labeled with something meaningful and you do not over generalize the contents or over complicate the folder structure.
These ideas are fantastic. I’ll definitely implement your suggestion to maintain a cleaner main screen. And your idea of utilizing cover pages is simply brilliant! Thank you.
Personally, as much as I love the rM, I don’t really find its organizational tools to be that useful. Tags were promising but ultimately take too many taps to get back to.
95% of my use of the device is in pdfs, where you can organize and navigate inside the document using hyperlinks. For me personally, this works far better than the folder/tag/notebook approach.
Id say just redo the tutorial a few times. It just resets all the little tips that pop up when you open stuff, but that helped me utilize the new features that have been added since getting mine. Imo, its up to the user, I made folders and notebooks as i went instead of making 15 folders of things I might use.
An example of what I did in school was have a folder for a class, and then a notebook for each lecture, titled with the date the lecture happened. Could get kinda confusing remembering what day was what, but thats how I handled it.
Thank you very much for your guidance. I’m still getting used to the interface, so I’ll take your advice and go through the tutorials again.
I love that it’s not all at once and things you don’t normally open will still hold the hint or tip until you open it, even if it’s a little ways down the road. Hope you enjoy it!
I have two folders, personal and work.
Inside each folder I have a notebook for each month. For example 2023-10w for work right now and 2023-10p for personal.
Whenever I take notes I write the day of the month in thick marker in the top right corner. I make it big enough so I can see it in the multi-page view. It helps me quickly find “those notes from that meeting 3weeks ago”
That’s the starting point, but I create topical notebooks for projects or recurring meetings like 1:1s since in those cases I often want to look at what happened last time.
I don’t normally use tags, but when I do its as a bookmark in a long pdf or epub.
I like setting up folders in the main directory, with a couple of scratch notebooks or a quickbook available for quick note-taking, which can then be moved into the proper subfolders if needed…
00.Work, 01.School, 03.Health, 04.Hobby, 05.Personal
Then folders within folders, like…
Fall 23 --> Course1 Course 2 Course 3
Each Course has sections, each section has handouts, notes, homework…
For notes, each separate day is a new Notebook. The schedule from both profs include Class 1, 2, 3 so being able to check back to see which notes are from which class is nice. I personally like it better than one big notebook for all of my notes.
Work has Meetings, Projects, Processes…
Hobby has Crochet, Knitting, Fishkeeping…
Tags are nice too - I use them to help with searches, like DB project, or Stata, Crochet, Hat Pattern…With my organization, the tags aren’t 100% necessary, but they’re useful. For example, a WIP tag can pull work projects, homework, and crochet patterns that I have tagged as WIP so I can decide where my time is better spent. Same thing with a COMPLETE tag, or YAY/BOO to make notes of if I liked the pattern or recipe, etc’s end product.
Your insights have been incredibly valuable. You’ve sparked a few ideas on how I’ll structure my system. Thank you! ☺️
I also have ADHD and bought this for returning to college. I am leaning on returning it as it isn’t as helpful as I had hoped. The lag is extremely frustrating to me, especially because of the cost.
Keep it simple by using folders and assigning notes to those folders