ReMarkable’s Paper Professional Brings a Coloration Display screen to Its Focus-Pleasant Pill Lineup

I usually discover it very exhausting to write down on my pc. As quickly as I settle in and let these artistic juices circulation … ding! In comes a Slack notification. OK, it will take two seconds to handle this primary. Minutes later, I will really feel the urge to examine my inbox. Oh wow, six pressing emails. Two hours later, I might need typed a single phrase on my web page. That often results in a late evening of writing. Rinse and repeat.

The ReMarkable 2 has been a salve on this course of. This e-paper pill with a snug stylus is a superb digital notepad—it mimics paper and pen much better than many different units—and the keyboard attachment has grow to be a good way for me to sort up tales distraction-free. You possibly can write notes, draw sketches, mark up PDFs, and set up all of those paperwork into folders. 5 years after the discharge of that pill, the corporate is unveiling a brand new product known as the ReMarkable Paper Professional. It elevates the notepad expertise whereas nonetheless prioritizing that distraction-free ethos.

“We invented the class,” says Mats Herding Solberg, the pinnacle of product administration on the Norwegian firm. “We’re centered actually on focus and making a single product that is actually good on the verticals that we imagine are vital. We do not need to be the corporate that goes tremendous broad and tries so as to add too many bells and whistles.”

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ReMarkable’s Paper Professional is not strictly a successor to the ReMarkable 2. Consider it like how the “Professional” version of the iPhone aligns to the usual mannequin. It has some good upgrades at the next value beginning at $579, however you’ll be able to stick to the $399 older mannequin for those who do not want the brand new options; it isn’t going away anytime quickly.

So what’s new? The spotlight is coloration. At CES 2024, E Ink—the corporate that produces lots of the electronic paper displays present in Kindles and the like—showed off extra units than ever utilizing color E Ink technology. This record now consists of the brand new ReMarkable Paper Professional, although Solberg says ReMarkable has carried out plenty of work on high of E Ink’s expertise to excellent the colour expertise. The customized “Canvas Coloration” show stack is comprised of bodily coloration particles that transfer across the display to indicate particular colours, moderately than a separate filter on high of the black and white show. Solberg says this could higher replicate the precise feeling of “coloration on paper.”

Do not count on vivid, brilliant colours such as you see in your smartphone’s display. These hues are nonetheless muted, and you may solely select from 9 colours (from magenta to cyan), however you’ll be able to mix and layer them collectively, which may then create much more coloration choices.

Additionally new is a front light system. It is totally different than the backlight typical of telephone screens. As a substitute, a entrance gentle angles the sunshine supply down onto the pill’s display so it is mirrored up at your eyes. It is a design that is grow to be fairly customary over time on the planet of e-paper units. The ReMarkable 2 solely displays ambient gentle, which makes it troublesome to see the display in a darkish room. This is not an issue with the Paper Professional. You possibly can regulate the brightness of the sunshine, although it is nonetheless not going to get eye-searingly brilliant. Simply sufficient that you should utilize it in dim circumstances.

The Paper Professional has a bigger 11.8-inch show, which suggests not one of the previous equipment for the ReMarkable 2 will work on this unit. That is why there are an array of folio covers ($89 and up) at launch to help the brand new machine, together with a Sort Folio cowl ($229) that provides a keyboard. Even the stylus has been rebuilt. The Marker/Marker Plus are lively styli, so that they must be charged—simply pop ’em on the sting of the Paper Professional, the place they’ll magnetically connect and begin wirelessly charging.