Welcome to the fold of the focused. I use mine for work daily. I also started journaling in it regularly. I find it easier to process my thoughts after writing them down. I’m glad you are enjoying the experience.

A little snappier and the battery life seems improved too, even with the WiFi on.

Welcome to the paperless revolution. Mine has changed my life. It solved my problems staying organized by allowing me to create separate notebooks and folders. I also appreciate that all of my documents can be available on any of my devices with the app. The writing experience is fantastic too. It’s kind of a leap of faith when it comes to the price, but I’ve found it to be totally worth it so far.

Don’t know anything about Zotero but if you can print to PDF on your computer, you can read and annotate it on the rM2. There are also browser extensions available that might help.

I’ve never written on an iPad but I have on a Surface tablet and I would recommend the rM2 easily over that experience. That was with a $100 Microsoft Pen too… The rM2 actually lives up to its promise of feeling like paper. It’s not just the textured screen, it’s that plus the response time and intelligent design.

I opted out of the competitors because I wanted a device that I wouldn’t have to think about. I wanted a device I could set next to my laptop for 8-10 hours per day and just be ready for me to jot down, take notes, sketch a chart, etc., etc. and be able to easily recall those notes at any time. I got what I needed to the letter, and it works great for all that and so much more I won’t go into as this is getting long already. I highly recommend if you are serious about wanting a good writing focus tool.

Had mine since June or so, I use it daily for work to record my to-do’s, my working notes, notes from the two dozen or so projects I’ve been involved with since I bought this thing, all of my department and cross department meetings notes and more. Then I started putting my personal lists and journals and notes on it as well. For me it was a total game changer.

Before, I was trying to write everything down quickly and then figure out how to either reference it later or store it digitally somehow. This usually either meant recreating the notes on the computer or stopping to take pictures of the notes to awkwardly file with typed notes. This thing has stopped all of that craziness, given me one place to write everything down and given me several places I can reference it all from via the app on my phone or various computers without a second step. I don’t think I’ve written on a piece of paper, minus a birthday card here or there, since I got it.

All that aside, it just feels good to write on. I use the Marker Plus with mine so I can’t speak to other pens, but I imagine it’s the soft nib that really does it. The experience is so paper-like it really does blow my mind in a “its magical” sort of way. In fact, I’ve gotten so used to writing on it that writing with an ink pen feels off to me now.

So if you have the use case to use it, I’d say it’s completely worth it, especially comparing other devices. If you are looking for bells, whistles, and web browsers, this ain’t it. If you’re looking for something of quality you can sit down and write on day in and day out and to be able to organize your notebooks into groups and folders and that is worth something in itself to you, this is the device in my opinion.