Our main critique of Amazon's Kindle Scribe when it launched in late 2022—and one that still mostly holds up—was that it felt like a big e-reader with writing functionality tacked on rather than a tablet designed specifically for writing and note-taking.

One of the most notable features of the reMarkable Paper Pro is its ability to render 20,000 colors on its 11.8-inch screen. The new color display allows you to write and annotate in a variety of colors,

Four years ago, the ReMarkable 2 arrived and changed my writing life. This ultra-thin, silver-framed e-ink screen, which I still think of as a legal pad from the future, helped me kickstart a handwritten diary I've kept up nearly every day for the last two years.