I’m in love with the new Remarkable Paper Pro Move. I know that sounds cheesy. I know you’re wondering just how bad this article is going to get, and all I can say is … it’s bad. Really bad. I’m head over heels for an e-ink tablet and it doesn’t even know my name.
Call me shallow, but it’s the lines, the shape of the thing—so thin, so smooth, so inviting. I mean, I’ve always been attracted to compact e-ink tablets, but the new Remarkable Paper Pro Move takes it to a whole other level. When I saw it, it pulled me in like a magnet, and I couldn’t take my eyes off its screen. I knew in my heart that it needed to be part of my workflow.
Who Am I Kidding? The Move Is Out of My League
I mean, look at me. I’m analog. It’s right there in the title. I travel with a pencil sharpener and five paper notebooks in various sizes. I speak A5. I get ecclesiastical on Temoe River paper. I not only own a four-inch brass ruler, I use it every day. I’m Chicago in 1974. The Remarkable Paper Pro Move is Milan in 2055. What do I even say? If I said you had a beautiful stylus would you hold it against me?
I don’t mean to be a size queen, and every tablet’s dimensions are fine; all tablets are beautiful. But the Move’s measurements can’t be ignored: a 7.3-inch display embedded in a 7.7-inch by 4.24-inch device. That’s just slightly taller than a Moleskine Medium (6.9 x 4.5), slightly bigger than the Leuchtturm 1917 B6+ (7.5 x 5) and bigger than the new iPhone Air (6.15 x 2.94). It’s about the length of a butter knife and the width of the Queen of Hearts, like my heart, which it is stealing.
The Move is the perfect size for my workflow, for the kind of portability I need. It’ll slip into your back pocket and fit just behind most pocket protectors in a short-sleeve button-up shirt with a tie, which is what I’m wearing right now, trying to work up the nerve to walk over and talk to a Move.
I can imagine being in my favorite third place, a steaming cortado on one side of my laptop and my Move on the other. Everyone will be so jealous, and not just of the size and materials, but the colors. The Move uses the same Canvas Color display technology as its parent device, the Paper Pro. This changes the game for notetaking by bringing the colorful annotation abilities of the Paper Pro into a more discreet—dare I say demure—size. For those of us who already carry pocket notebooks and perhaps way too many highlighters, this is just another, stronger push to leave our paper in a drawer.
I recently attended lectures abroad, stuffing my backpack with two Stalogy A5 Editors, a slim brick of Moleskine Cahier minis, three Moleskine Cahier Executives, my Hobonichi Techo planner, a canvas Fieldnotes Notebook cover loaded with my highlighters, my red liner, a mechanical pencil, a regular wooden pencil, a rollerball, and a fountain pen. Inside were my brass ruler, spare ink, and pencil holder for when my incredibly expensive Mitsubishis were getting too short to hold comfortably. In my back pocket, a Fieldnotes pocket notebook. In my shirt pocket, my EDC fountain pen.
If I had the Move, I could leave all of it at home, giving me more space in my backpack for books. Which I wouldn’t need because I can read e-pub books and PDFs on the Move. I can turn a vague squiggle into a perfectly straight horizontal line. I can highlight, write and draw in nine preset colors, so my highlighters are obsolete, as is my trusty red liner. There are also nine preset writing instruments:
Ballpoint
Fineliner
Marker
Pencil and Mechanical pencil
Paintbrush
Calligraphy pen
Highlighter
We’ve been together a while, and things are going fine. It’s always there for me, always responsive to the least interest I may have, and I’m happy. I am. I’m not a fickle user. I’m serious. We’re monogamous.
Even if I wanted to leave my Remarkable 2 for the Paper Pro Move, with a pricetag of $449 ($499 with the Marker Plus), it’s out of my league. I mean, I could take it into the Best Buy trade-in program for a $125 off a Move, but what kind of person would I be?
I mean, I’ve looked at other e-Ink tablets; who wouldn’t? Like the new Kindle Scribe. Life with a Scribe is simple, cozy. It’s got a steady integration into the Amazon ecosystem. And although the AI version is getting pricey, the Kindle Paperwhite is far less expensive at $199—still in my league. And with all those eBooks on Amazon at your fingertips? Please, give me a chair by the fire.
But am I settling? Am I just moving to the burbs and getting a Toyota Rav 4 and mowing my own lawn? Sure, I could spend some time with a Boox, with its Android integrations and third-party app support. But it’s so robotic. So cold. Might as well take a Dyson Wand to dinner and talk to ChatGPT. And what about the Supernote? What about it? We’ve got history.
Things are fine with my Remarkable 2. I’m not saying everything is perfect. OK, we’re actually going through a rough patch, and we’ve agreed to see other devices—even notebooks. I’ve been having coffee with an older paper journal, a lipstick-red Stalogy Editor. I had a brief fling with an Amazon Fire, but we lost touch. I think it fell behind the couch.
I am Helpless, and I am Going to Cave
Who am I kidding? I’m gonna call the Move. I’m going to text too soon. I’m going to drop that meager $449 bucks and take it home. It’s not my fault. It’s the unboxing videos. When the cardboard comes off, what grown professional could hold back? Oh, and the workflow videos. I mean, get a room! I mean a cubicle. I mean the kitchen table.
Actually, it’s a good thing. This is good. I can justify this …
The paperless office is now even more portable. Remarkable has made that seemingly improbable future inevitable. Their suite of e-Ink tablets is defining the market as clearly and powerfully as Apple defined smartphones. The e-Ink tablet market size was valued at USD $2.29 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach $4.54 billion by 2032, growing at a CAGR of 8.95% during the forecast period. Remarkable appears to carry about 4% of that market and is growing.
This growing market means less paper. A Remarkable can hold about 100,000 pages. That’s somewhere between 200 and 300 books, or 100 reams of paper (10 boxes).
A relationship with an e-Ink tablet is good for the environment. We’re saving the world. This isn’t an affair; this is activism.
I’m a climate warrior!
And Honestly, I Only Have Eyes for the Move
This is by design. The great advantage of Remarkable products is that the company has stuck to its design philosophy of replicating the paper experience—and only that experience. There are no apps, no internet, and no notifications popping up to drag you down an attention rabbit hole.
This is important as we head face-first into the second long phase of the Attention Age. Our attention may be our most valuable asset. A healthy digital detox might just start with technology that respects your focus instead of trying to finagle it away from you.
I know what you’re thinking. “This guy needs help, not hardware.”
But the Remarkable Paper Pro Move isn’t just a device—it’s a lifestyle upgrade, a productivity revolution, a pocket-sized portal to a paperless paradise. And yes, I’m romanticizing a $449 piece of technology, but isn’t that what love is? Seeing potential where others see overpriced gadgets? Finding beauty in electromagnetic resonance and Canvas Color displays? I’m not delusional, I’m a visionary. And this visionary is about to max out his credit card for love. The heart wants what the heart wants, and my heart wants 7.3 inches of e-ink perfection.
Don’t judge me. Judge the system that made falling in love with technology more affordable than therapy.
