What I use my reMarkable tablet for

How I like to use my reMarkable….

1. According to Ben Elijah there are three parts to organising information – there’s capturing it, thinking about it, and exporting it (viewing it and showing it to other people).  I love using my RM to capture my thoughts – you can quickly jot them down, much faster than typing, often as a mind map or diagram, there may be sub-branches etc.  I also love using it to then organise the thoughts, pulling the sentences around on the page to a different order, or into categories.  I don’t really use it for the third part – showing other people – because it’s all in my handwriting (which is great for ME!) and I don’t bother with the writing-to-text feature.  Maybe I should!
2. I use it outside, sitting in the sun, to have ideas and to view my jobs to do, blog ideas etc.  My laptop is hopeless in the bright sunlight but the RM gets better the brighter the sun!
3. I like to be able to find everything, because it has all of the notes I have ever taken.  No more bits of paper somewhere in my office!  I have a basic filing system (too many files and it takes too long to open them and too hard to know which one it’s in – too few and they get big and you can’t find what you want within them) so I have a file called “Customers” and every meeting with a client goes in there.  I can scroll back through and find anything since they are in date order of when I wrote them.  I write the client name (or initials) in BIG at the top so in multi-page view I can see what is what.  The other benefit of the RM when I’m with clients is that it’s rude (I think) to type notes into a laptop, and writing on a pad is fine but then you have scraps of paper everywhere – so the RM is the perfect blend of polite but computerised.  
4. I have a file called Blog Ideas where I jot down any thought I’m having – 5 ways to reply to an insult, a time management flow process, how the  4 types of people can each increase their happiness, or whatever.  Often these involve diagrams, e.g. 2×2 boxes, or just some jotted notes.  Then I can sit in a sunny corner later and flesh them out more.
5. I use my RM to make diagrams to send to editors of my videos and books.  The diagrams are not the finished article for the book, they are to show the editor what I want the diagram to be, and then they can make a smart version.  My new RM3 has colour so it’s much better for this.  I preferred the rougher writing feel of the 2, but the colour (and the back-lighting for use in the evening or in bed, or while we’re watching TV and I don’t want to disturb my wife) – these are killer features.  So I sketch out the graphics that I want for the video or book and then I email that page from the RM to my email, where I add an explanation and then send it to the editor.
6. I travel everywhere with my RM.  If it’s going to be a rough trip I take my old RM2 since it’s smaller (and cheaper if I lost it!) and feels slightly tougher, and since for capturing ideas I don’t need the colour.  I love the huge battery life and to use it in bright sun when I’m travelling for work or on holiday. 
7. Sometimes I don’t have my RM but I still have all my notes in the RM app on my phone – now in colour.  Many times I have been saved by being able to see everything I have ever written, on my phone.
8. I like the copying function, so for lists of what to pack I copy the last list, add anything else I can think of, (saving it all in my Pack Lists folder), then I pack everything, and the few things I haven’t found or I’m going to pack later I highlight.  If I’m feeling posh I use the layers function to write on the list so I can rub out the highlighting and use the list again next time.  In my pack list folder I have lists for everywhere I’ve been, so when I go somewhere similar (cycle trip in hot country, skiing, train journey to give a talk in London, etc) I can dig out the closest list.
9. Occasionally I use my RM when I’m running a training workshop (people always say “What’s THAT??”) – it’s great for when I need to go around each group and get their votes or decisions and make a note, before then putting all the bids up on the board.  I use the layers function so I can put all the bids in a grid, and then rub out just the bids and use the grid again for the next round.
10. Here are some examples of my RM-assisted thought process as I design training sessions and write blog posts:

Don’t try to read or understand them, haha! they are just to give an impression of the kind of thing….