26 Features of reMarkable 2 You Should Know

The reMarkable 2 is a tablet that lets you take notes by hand, using a stylus. What sets it apart from other tablets is the feeling of writing on paper.

Since the reMarkable 2 user manual is only available in English, I thought it would be helpful to list the tablet’s features in French before you make your decision. At the end of this article, I’ve included a link to the French user manual (machine translation).

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26 top features of the reMarkable 2

1. You can set the tablet for right-handed or left-handed use
2. You can convert your handwriting to digital text. To do this, you need to write horizontally. Any diagonal writing or strange symbols may not be recognized. You must select your handwriting language to facilitate conversion (33 languages supported).
3. You have several templates to write on: planners, checklists, sheet music, perspective, grid, etc.

Those who need special templates can create their own custom PDFs with links to each page of the document. I really like French ruled paper (Seyes), so I created my own document (you can download my PDF template here, freebie!). If you share this template anywhere, please credit me as the source.

4. You can use the reMarkable as an e-reader. It supports PDF and epub files. Personally, I recommend using epub files because you can adjust the font size, line spacing, etc., which is not possible with PDF. However, you can click on (internal) links in PDFs but not in epubs, so it depends on the file you’re reading.
5. You can send any web page to the reMarkable and read it on the reMarkable, either in text-only mode or with images (PDF). To do this, use the reMarkable app for desktop, or the iOS and Android apps.

6. You can highlight and annotate your text files, PDFs, and epubs. However, your notes will not be converted to digital text. You can only export everything as a PDF if you want to share your notes with someone else.
7. You can display live your reMarkable screen on your computer. Click the “share” icon and choose “Present with Screen Share”. This way, you can live stream or share your computer screen, or record a video to edit later.

8. You can add multiple layers like in Photoshop, then enlarge, shrink, or move them as you wish.
9. Since the latest software update of the reMarkable, you can zoom in and out just by using two fingers, like on a smartphone
10. Each notebook is made up of as many pages as you want. You can duplicate, delete, move pages within a notebook, or to other notebooks
11. You can share notes as PDF, PNG, or SVG via email. You can select multiple pages or only some pages.
12. If your note is converted to text: it can be shared as regular text in an email
13. Notes are stored on the reMarkable cloud. Your reMarkable account, which you had to create to activate the device, lets you access your notes from anywhere. The iOS, Android, and computer apps can sync all your notes.
14. If you want to send your notes to other clouds (Evernote, for example): you can create specific email addresses to send your files directly to Evernote.
15. The pen with eraser (Marker Plus) costs a bit more, but it lets you erase like a real pencil, right on the screen

16. Pen tips are included with the pen, and there are 10 in total. Each tip should last about 2 months if you don’t press too hard. Otherwise, the brand says they last between 3 and 7 weeks.
17. You have 6 pen stroke types + 1 highlighter + 1 calligraphy pen. There’s a slight difference in rendering depending on the format chosen, especially for the “pencil” (.svg vs. .png). Click on the photos below to download them and see the difference. Left is SVG, right is PNG.

18. Software updates come regularly. Updates are not rolled out to all users at once, but over a period of about a week. Usually, you’ll see in the settings that an update is available. By default, automatic updates are enabled, but you can change that in settings.
19. The layout of EPUB documents in e-reader mode has been greatly improved. You can now turn pages more smoothly.
20. You don’t have to buy the brand’s pen and case. There are cheaper alternatives on Amazon that are compatible with the Remarkable 2 (10.3″). Look, my case only cost €26 (Amazon link) vs. €79 (the cheapest official case). See my tips on non-official pens in my other article and the tips on non-official cases

21. You can set a password for your tablet. This password is powerful. You can’t do a factory reset directly on the tablet without knowing the password. So, if someone steals your reMarkable, they can’t even do a factory reset and sell it to someone else without having access to your My reMarkable account. Your data is protected, and they won’t be able to make money off your stolen tablet.

22. You can select items using the lasso selection to then copy/paste. So, what I often do, to avoid drawing the same thing multiple times, is to group on one note all the shapes I use most often: x-y axes, pie chart, funnel, squares (drawn with a ruler), circles… then copy/paste them onto other notes when I need them.

23. Since the latest update, you can upload and download PDFs from Google Drive and Dropbox. Note: there’s no synchronization, just access to the drives to upload/download. To do this, go to my.remarkable.com and link your Google Drive/Dropbox accounts to your reMarkable account (learn more here)
24. A “hidden” feature that users quickly notice is that the tablet is distraction-free (you can’t browse the web, you can’t even see the time on the tablet) so you end up being more productive, reading more, and staying more focused on your work instead of spending hours on social media. I think that’s the biggest value of this tablet.
25. Since version 3.0, you can add typed text to notebooks. I never use this feature, but if you’re interested, it’s in the “pens” list. For now, you still can’t move these typed texts. But it does allow you, for example, from the computer app, to copy/paste text and easily find it on the tablet later.
26. Since update 2.14, you can assign a tag to each page, document, and folder. For example, you can have a single notebook for all meeting minutes, but use tags to tag only the to-do pages, for example, and access them in two clicks from the main menu. Personally, when I read a PDF, I mark all the interesting pages, then export them to another PDF file, and it becomes my book summary (in super lazy mode).

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reMarkable 2 user manual in French

I had the reMarkable 2 manual automatically translated into French, annotated by me with my handwriting.

Some translations sound a bit odd, but the content is understandable (I hope).

Download the annotated user guide by clicking here (.pdf file, 18.3MB, updated December 30, 2022)

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