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by oumua_don17 2076 days ago
How close is the experience of using R2 close to using pen on paper? Can you please elaborate more on what aspects make you absolutely love it?

I tried Apple pencil with iPad Pro but couldn’t find any app and neither does the HW replicate the pen on paper exp and it’s probably not designed/meant for it either.

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There was a Youtube reviewer who said it was so much like pencil on paper that he forgot it wasn't real paper and attempted to smudge the graphite on it with his finger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9wudCMFWPQ&t=16s
I can attests to this. I quickly forget that I am not writing on a real piece of paper when using it. It feels very natural.
The experience is very close. Much more so than with an iPad and Apple Pencil.

I guess what I love about it is that in many ways combines the best of both physical and digital writing. It feels very much like writing with a real piece of paper, and it does not have any distracting apps like social media or a web browser. It also brings the benefits of being a digital device, in that you can edit things after the fact. Such as rearranging pages. Selecting portion of a text or drawing and then move it within the page, or to another page. Do copy and paste, and things like that.

I got an ELECOM paper feel screen protector for iPad Pro that gets about 70% of that paper feel. It still doesn’t feel as nice as remarkable tablet though. I own both 2nd gen iPad Pro and remarkable tablet 1.