That's why I went with an iPad over Remarkable for note taking. I LOVE my kindle's e-ink display, but from what I saw Remarkable just doesn't let you zoom and pan through your notes and cross-reference with the same fluidity as a tablet, and I decided that was more important.
Hopefully they figure out how to get e-ink FPS up because I would love to have the best of both worlds.
Youtube reviews are probably the best way to get a feel for the current competitive landscape (e.g. GoodNotes vs Notability, MarginNote vs LiquidText).
GoodNotes made a lot of right choices, and LiquidText is especially under-appreciated:
How well does the iPad handle hand recognition when using a pen? Does it accidentally scroll down PDFs or lag when you are switching from pen to fingers to zoom or pan?
It does feel quicker and more accurate too though I wouldn’t say that’s a dealbreaker for the first gen (I also upgraded to a 12.9” iPad which I think makes a bigger difference for note taking etc, maybe because you end up writing a bit bigger than on paper so the extra space is useful?)
Why not alter your handwriting to work better with the software? My first handwriting recognition experience was on a Palm Pilot using Graffiti. I got to be pretty fast with that and I think being forced to create better letter forms has benefited me greatly since then.
I too have a Remarkable V2 on the way but for now I'm using GoodNotes on an iPad and I also scan pages of my notes and stick them in Evernote. Both GoodNotes and Evernote give me almost perfect OCR.
It is quite good from a writing perspective. I very much loved the tactile experience of a good fountain pen and nib on robust heavy paper. Remarkable is not that, of course, but a worthy experience in its own right. I am using it at this moment for some creative technical design work.
It is less good from a reviewing and rereading perspective. Even at the finest line width I have to work a little harder to read back through my poor script- something I much less frequently found problematic on paper. And page turning and locating earlier notes in a 20-50 page document (an amount I easily produce weekly, sometimes daily) is much less ergonomic than with paper.
The recognition does not work with my writing, but I can see that improving and that feature becoming killer in the context of more structured document authoring on the Remarkable, like filling out a templated form with gestures or short letter/word notes. They are not far from that capability.
And on the whole I have gotten to a place where the ritual is satisfying and useful. Not perfect, but paper and pen, however enjoyable, were not perfect either.
I have also recently become aware of a product called Papyr, which has two features of interest- a larger writing surface, and live synchronization with other Papyr devices and with software on iPad or desktop. It may be able to be a useful shared whiteboard.