Laptops, phones and tablets put the world at our fingertips, providing an instant transition between our personal and professional lives. That’s an amazing feat, but it can also be an overwhelming distraction.
When it comes to focusing deeply on a single task, nothing compares to handwriting notes on a pristine pad of paper. With its textured display surface and stylus-like marker, the reMarkable 2 tablet recreates this experience of writing on paper — without distractions from apps, notifications, email, web browsers, etc.
The reMarkable 2 is a product with enormous potential to help users with attention deficit and sensory processing disorders. The textured display could be especially calming to users with autism. (Repeatedly touching specific surfaces is a common act of stimming, or self-soothing, for people with autism.)
The Old-Fashioned (Healthier) Way
As mentioned earlier, personal computers and traditional mobile devices are great, but their bright blue light screens can cause fatigue and eye strain by putting stress on retinal cells.
A recent study from the Harvard School of Public Health found that e-paper displays like reMarkable 2’s are “three times healthier for your eyes” than blue light displays.
E-paper is even considered safer for eyes than print paper, as it doesn’t contain fluorescent brighteners, which increase blue light reflection. E-paper, on the other hand, reflects natural, ambient light. The reMarkable 2 is easy to see in sunlight, so users can get some vitamin D while they work!
Better for Your Brain
Taking pen to paper has many other health benefits. As noted in Scientific American: “A recent study in Frontiers in Psychology monitored brain activity in students taking notes and found that those writing by hand had higher levels of electrical activity across a wide range of interconnected brain regions responsible for movement, vision, sensory processing and memory.”
Shaping each letter of your notes with a pen activates the brain much more than pecking at keys, leading to increased spelling accuracy, memory and recall.
Reading on paper or a paper-like display also leads to “deeper reading,” whereas screen-based reading shows “shallow reading” — as observed in a recent Columbia University study.
Other Remarkable Benefits
The reMarkable 2 isn’t just a notepad. It has many other capabilities, such as:
- Converting handwritten notes to typed text
- Converting 33 languages
- Organizing notes with folders, tags and limitless pages
- Syncing to the cloud
- Storing PDFs and e-books for reading without backlight, glare or eye strain
To learn more about the reMarkable 2 tablet or to borrow it from INDATA’s Lending Library, log in or create an account at the link here.