to explain why:
1. i love drawing, but notebooks and whiteboards don't easily allow me to edit what i've done. software tools like remarkable allow me to move and resize what i've drawn, or click undo and try again, or perfectly erase. i can turn on the grid template to do lettering and then turn it off so the grid isn't in the finished product. i can't overstate how clutch moving/copying/cutting/undoing are for visual communication. i don't have to redraw that chart to make it more legible or the words fit better. i don't have to go over the pencil in pen to make it more visible when i take a picture and share it. editing visual communication is just as important as editing text, and software is just so freaking good at that compared to paper and whiteboards.
2. i use remarkable for multiple things. one of those things is drawing comics and sketches. sure, when they get complicated or i need to be more professional i'll import to clip studio and use my wacom cintiq, but being able to sit anywhere and pull out the remarkable like i would a sketchpad means i draw way more often. it's a joy.
3. i make planning documents for work projects that easily sync as pdf's so i can keep colleagues up to date. sure, when it comes time to spec details i move to google docs and spreadsheets, but especially these days where we don't have a shared whiteboard in an office, having an easy-to-share notebook has made my design/planning communication more effective and faster. (remarkable has folders and notebooks, so i keep one notebook per ongoing project)
4. one of my remarkable notebooks is "Todos". it's so cool to have one physical "notebook" for all my different notebooks. it's like a kindle but for creating! the internal organization works really well for me. ps - did i mention that digital writing can be edited and doesn't suffer from getting messy and disorganized like paper? such joy.
5. there are just enough features like pens and line widths and "smart vector based selection" to be useful, while still being simple and getting out of the way. i've never had a tablet or ipad. i don't want more screens in my life. i have an old iphone i try not to get attached to. i use a neo for writing stories and journals ;-p
i dont get excited by technology. BUT to me the remarkable is a single purpose tool that works beautifully well.
ps - to me the purpose is to create. i don't need a phone todo app or anything more prescriptive than a futuristic notebook.
pps - i used the remarkable outside today, for example, and didnt think twice. eink is lovely.
yes there are differmented between the remarkable and high quality paper and analog art tools, as well as high quality digital tools (there's some parallax in remarkable among other issues that simply cannot compare to the cintiq, to say nothing of professional art software) but those tools aren't life changing the way the remarkable fills it's particular niche.
totally cool if it's not your cup of tea, i just love it and recommend visual communicators and visual note takers check it out.
pppppps - oh yeah, the scribble to text transcription is on point. that's not my main usage, but i'm impressed it can read my actual-not-lettering scrawls, which sometimes i can't even read.
i can't share examples of most of what i've created, but for fun i've started making comics out of work charts and graphs: https://twitter.com/staycalmcomic