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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 ??

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.