If you are a student or a copious notetaker, Apple's iPad isn't the best device for the task, but the reMarkable 2 is an exceptional note-taking experience, lacking any other tablet features.

Taking notes is a legitimate issue for many, spanning high school to college, office life, interviews, and everything in between. There's been a few common issues that crop up, from managing notes to just making out what the heck we'd written in the first place.

As tech-prone users, we've always been inclined to take our notes digitally. We remember using early iPads and a generic rubber-tipped stylus to jot down chicken scratch for use later. It never seemed to go well. Palm rejection wasn't great in the early days, and the squishy tips weren't up to the task. Not to mention, the iPad's screen always felt too small.

We've tried out plenty of options, including notebooks you can scan, other "smart" tablets for taking notes that fell short, and high-end styluses for our iPad, and when it came to note-taking, it was never ideal. Even when Apple got serious about notes and drawing by introducing the Apple Pencil.

Currently, we still take a lot of notes which led us to pick up the reMarkable 2 tablet.

After using it for a few months now, we were surprised by how much we have come to love it. That's what generally summarizes our review of the reMarkable 2 tablet. In a world where everything is expected to do ten things at once, reMarkable rejected the pressure to go down that route and released a second-generation device that focused on nailing down that singular, note-taking experience.

The reMarkable 2 tablet is a second-generation device, improving on many — but not all — of the shortcomings of the original.

If we had to choose a word to describe the reMarkable tablet's quality, it would be "premium." The tablet feels like a well-made, high-status device that is hard to put into words. Between the various accessories (more on those in a moment) and the device itself, it feels like you are holding something designed with a purpose.

If you examine the tablet closely, you can see the little details. Take the power button, for example. It is located atop the spine of the tablet, and it fits in place perfectly with the slightest little chamfered edges that give it just enough differentiation between it and the edge of the tablet.

The tablet's body is metal, which gives it some solid weight, though not too heavy at all. It just feels as if it has some substance and doesn't feel cheap. By itself, reMarkable 2 weighs only .88 pounds.

On the back of the tablet are four tiny rubber feet. Without these, the tablet would surely slide around your desktop. It's again a small detail that is well thought out and done explicitly for notetakers.

The reMarkable 2 tablet is as thin as the USB-C port that powers it

It's also shockingly thin. So thin that it looks impossible to go any thinner. It's about as thick as the USB-C port used to charge, measuring only 4.7mm. That's an entire millimeter thinner than iPad Pro and 30 percent thinner than the last-generation reMarkable tablet.

Internally it's powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core ARM processor with 1 GB LPDDR3 SDRAM and 8GB of storage. That updated processor doubles the speed from the reMarkable 1. Its battery is three times that of the original, which will last two weeks on typical use.

It connects with the aforementioned USB-C port, but it also connects wirelessly with either 2.4GHz or 5GHz Wi-Fi bands.

Battery status and Wi-Fi signal