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Vet student stuggling to choose! (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by SoggyMasterpiece6407@alien.top to c/remarkable@hardware.watch

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Tldr: I'm currently trying to decide between an everyday rocketbook planner or a rM2

My use case is I'm a final year vet student doing rotations (think med school resident type program for anyone unfamiliar). So I'm constantly needing to jot down notes on things I'm learning around the clinics each day and occasionally outdoors for large animals. I don't want to carry actually notebooks as i want a digital storage option and we aren't allowed to use our phones for note taking (bad look professionally)

Main reason I'm also considering rocketbook is because it is far cheaper and has the bonus of having a planner built in which would be handy as I'm scheduled in a different clinic every 2 weeks or so, so there's lots of logistics to track and honeslty id pro ly need a planner septately of i did get a rM2. But remarkable seems much more self contained and efficient.

Basically is the price difference likely to be worth it in my use case? Any help would be very appreciated!!

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[–] Computerist1969@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have both. I wouldn't get a rocket book. It becomes a bit of a maintenance nightmare.

[–] SoggyMasterpiece6407@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the help, was there anything in particular you found was bothersome?

[–] Computerist1969@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

End of busy week, book nearly full so start capturing. This isn't too bad. Then, clean the pages:

Clean 2 sides. Wait, and wait, and wait for them to dry. Next 2 pages etc. it's an absolute ball ache. Also own takes a while to dry so you can't just flip a page emover because it'll smear what you last write and transfer it to the facing page too.

It was useful when I worked in an environment that allowed no.outside tech but remarkable is much better. These days I'd go for that colour boox one though over a remarkable.

[–] FRK299@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

In the case of the rocketbook, from my perspective, it’s a bit cumbersome (haven’t used it tho =P)

I’d say give the rM a try. They have a generous 100-day satisfaction guarantee, so if you can spend on it, try it to see whether you like it or not. Your usecase definitely seems like something that’ll fit the reMarkable, and having a bunch of templates and the ability to load in any PDF file and annotate it directly is very powerful

[–] Otakuhime167@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I used the rocket book for awhile, but it didn't work for my use case. Once I wrote lecture notes, scanned it, that was it. I can look back at the lecture notes, but I can't add anything on top of it like more notes or maybe more examples. My notes were hardcoded pdfs and I didn't like that. On the remarkable on the other hand, I can write over and erase as much as I want.

I still use a rocketbook mini for smaller notes and travel, but for a main note taking experience the remarkable is much better.

[–] sayiwouldrathernot@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I second this! OP if you need an option, I have had a great experience with ReCalendar - personalized calendar PDFs for ReMarkable tablets. There are a lot of great personalization options, you can write in your own holidays, birthdays, etc. For use on the remarkable, the pdf it generates has navigation within it, so it's easy to jump to a certain date or flip between weeks, etc.