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I was considering one of these last year but one of the reviews I watched suggested the experience wasn’t as good if you are a lefty. The UI, according to them, was tuned for a right-handed writer’s experience and they frequently triggered buttons and menus accidentally.

I would love to hear from any left-handed RM2 owners about their experiences and whether they experienced similar issues.

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I’m a lefty and have used my RM2 every work day for the past year. Really changed how I work.

If I had to choose between giving up my RM2 or giving up my work laptop and working on an iPad Pro, I’d figure out how to get my job done on the iPad. It’s that good for me. But my job is leadership/management, not coding so that obviously makes a difference.

It took me about a day of frustration to figure out I could close the on-screen menu by tapping the dot in the upper-right hand corner. Then there was no more accidentally closing the file I was working on.

My workflow now is 30 minutes at the start of each day planning on my RM2. I have a planning template I made and duplicate daily. Then I reference that day’s doc throughout the day and add new incoming info into it. I can move stuff from yesterday’s doc to today’s easily during my planning session if I need to.

For hiring, I put PDF resumes and cover letters into a folder and mark those up as I prep for interviews. I do the same with articles I want to read. I sync everything w/ their desktop app.

It doesn’t distract me like an iPad would and I get around 2 weeks on a charge if I keep the Wi-Fi turned off most of the time.

I'm a lefty with a Remarkable 2 that I've use almost daily for a year and a half, and I haven't had trouble with accidental button presses as long as I close the context menu when I'm writing. The toggle for the context menu is a dot on the top right corner of the page, so not easy to accidentally press as a lefty. I guess if you're using it for complex drawings where you need the context menu open to constantly erase, cut, and change thickness then it might be annoying, but for my use cases of journaling, note-taking, and the occasional diagram, I'm extremely satisfied.

I mentioned it in another comment in this thread, but I LOVE writing on this thing as a lefty. It reduces my wrist strain massively by freeing me from having to "push" writing instruments against the page from left to right (I know this isn't something every lefty struggles with, but I have a wrist injury that's made writing on paper a worse experience in general).

I'm a lefty. I suppose I am used to backwards interfaces but I'm not bothered by it not being optimized for me. What I really like is not smearing my hand on ink or graphite as I write a line.

The struggle is real!

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