I've been procrastinating on editing a science fiction novella I wrote a couple of years ago. I'm afraid of the rewriting process, honestly. I don't like staring at computer screens with very long drafts, and I don't print out my work enough.
I tried reading the draft over instead using ReMarkable's newest color E Ink tablet, the ReMarkable Paper Pro , a $579 piece of tech that's exclusively focused on being a better pen-on-paper substitute for notes, art or document markups. The process was pretty comforting and felt a lot like working on paper. I'm still procrastinating on the rewrite, but what it made me realize again is that devices like iPads still don't feel like perfect annotation devices for me right now, and somehow the ReMarkable does.
Why is this? Why does a color E Ink tablet feel better? It mainly comes down to a few things done well. The pen-to-paper feel is right Much like the last ReMarkable tablet , I appreciated a certain friction between the stylus and the screen. Technically, Apple's Pencil Pro offers more nuance in control, but the ReMarkable stylus just feels more real, more analog.
It has a scratchy-type texture as the stylus tip moves over the matte surface, and that also means I can exert more pressure with the stylus, which translates to crisper handwriting for me. On iPads, the Pencil's glossy movement over the display just doesn't help my handwriting at all. There are separately sold screen covers that add that matte texture (and Apple even has a m.
