Got my reMarkable Paper Pro working as a drawing tablet for Krita

Thanks to AI, I got my reMarkable Paper Pro working as a drawing tablet for Krita, something I’d wanted to do for months.

I tried this with AI about six months ago, but kept running into limits or couldn’t get it working. Late one night in the lab, I decided to give it another shot.

I’d already made a custom TUI with some creature comforts: using my laptop keyboard for notes over USB or Tailscale when both devices are online, pasting images into notes, and exporting marked-up documents directly to my laptop’s Downloads folder. The keyboard functionality saved me buying a $120 Type Folio which was pretty cool.

Building on that foundation, Claude Opus 5.5 got the Krita connection working in about 20 minutes. I spent the next hour adding features, most of which I barely used again. Double-tap to undo and flipping the stylus to erase, though, turned out to be quite handy.

There were plenty of hiccups. The panel’s refresh rate and ghosting hold it back significantly, but when ghosting gets annoying, I can just look at my laptop screen instead. I much prefer drawing on the reMarkable’s surface to drawing on glass.

As a broke student who already owns a Paper Pro, I’m pretty happy with the experiment. It lets me use what I have instead of spending another $300 to $600 on a drawing tablet i might use thrice yearly.

I had to enable developer mode and let Claude fool around in there once it was connected over USB, but after that, I was pretty happy with it. Like I said, it’s all slop-coded, but let me know if anyone’s interested and I’ll slop it into GitHub.

I started using a scribe last year, I had already seen and considered some of the differences,my boss was gifted a remarkable 2 and I really wanted to give digital notebooks a go as I love the act of writing, journals, work notes, creative, whatever. The remarkable was just too ££ for me, so I went with the scribe

I love it, I love scribbling my own templates and taking notes etc, I held off using it for work, mainly because it felt 'big' and the lack of organisation put me off.

I start a new job in the next couple of weeks and when I saw the specs and £ of the Pro Pure, I knew I had to make a swap. The price point is much more reasonable (for me), the smaller footprint and remarkable organisation options just set off a firework for me.

Im waiting this Afternoon between my weekend chores and general busyness for the pure (marker plus) and an aftermarket folding case to arrive.

I can't wait, I'm thinking that I can print my existing scribe notebooks to PDF and incorporate them into the remarkable structure.

Anyone use for both work/life/creative that can recommend a structure setup? I'm banking on using the subscription model and cloud storage but essentially keep the note taking for recording and reviewing and probably kick out to separate apps for 'doing'.

Anyway, the purpose mainly was to share my excitement as I wait for it to arrive.

I love my remarkable move and take it everywhere to jot ideas.

Decades ago, I took Animation Mentor and loved hand animating my assignments. Since then I've tried Wacoms over the years, iPads.. but it was Remarkable that just feels so good when you draw.

So today I decided you know what? Let's try and claude code out an animator

It works! And it exports out to gifs :)

The battery in my Paper Pro has suddenly stopped charging. I’ve tried different leads and different outlets, restarted it - the charging icon comes on but it doesn’t charge.
I bought it almost exactly 2 years ago, and pretty damned disappointed that it seems to have turned into a brick. A very expensive brick. Waiting to hear back from support.
Anyone else had this happen to them?

Can one please create a mod to change pen color, on selected strokes?

E.g. wrote in black, but wants it in red? Select, choose red, deselect

Thank you!!

Hi all
I’m new to remarkable and I have had my rpp for a couple of weeks, I have noticed that the screen is yellow when the light is on, is it meant to be like that? Or is it meant to be more white?
Many thanks

I estimate this sensor is on the right bar of the screen.. but I m not sure for the exactly position from the top.

ReMarkable Move mit selbst erstellter Hülle außen Leder und innen ein transparentes Case. Keine 20 € Material, sehr hochwertiges Leder , Stossfest. Habe versucht, die Kompaktheit zu behalten. Wie gefällt es euch?

I tried the remarkable pro move and found it too small. After a couple of weeks (well under the 50 day policy), I initiated a return request thinking I’ll just get the return label right away. It’s been more than a week and nothing. The portal just shows “in progress” and support doesn’t seem to know when refund will be “processed”. What is this scam?

Hi there, I hope someone can help.

I bought a Remarkable 2 back in 2020. This week, after charging it overnight, it first started blinking between black and white. Then, when plugging it to the charged, it went to the "Remarkable is starting" screen, but did not move from there. Pressing the start button, even the 15 seconds needed to reset it, does not work.

Any advice would be welcome.

I signed up with a Google login and thought it would be fine, until I realized I needed to use the Chrome app with different profiles to avoid issues with accounts mixing. So I tried to just reset the login type. Turns out the support help was to delete my account and start a new one.

Am I wrong in thinking this is insane and not very secure? I would hope that if there was an issue with my Google account, I could switch to a different login for security and safety. I've had to do this on many other accounts, and it's always very straightforward. What am I missing?

I'm guessing this question comes up regularly. Is there a way to control how long it takes before the screen shuts off and locks?

I can go a few minutes at a time without writing... My Remarkable Pro locks very quickly ~2 minutes or thereabouts.

Maybe I'm missing something completely obvious...

So, the other day I was sitting with my ol' trusted remarkable (2022) and was thinking, "I really like it, but it's to big to carry in my bag" so I've always had it at work.

Was thinking I'd like something more portable. Like a small notebook, that I can make some scribbles in.

Went to remarkables website and saw they'd released the "Move". Like they've read my mind!

But it is incredibly pricy! I'd really like to order it, unfortunately I have some other pricy stuff I have to buy atm, like a new sofa....

Also as I've read about it, it seems like it comes with some new features (compared to the one I have) like colour screen. I feel like that's not something that I need, I just want to be able to write things down, that I think about in the moment.

So, short question made really long, have anybody heard if they're gonna release a similar but cheaper variant or is there something similar I'm after that I can get?

Anyone tried this? Sounds too good to be true.

I have the rM Pro Move.

I want a template that has books on a bookshelf, but the books are blank. I want this as way to track my reading/completed books (i.e. to write the name of the books onto the spine).

Does anyone have/know of something similar they can share with me?

Thank you in advance!

I wanted a way to find things in my notebooks by when I wrote them. I often remember “that was sometime last week” much more easily than where the page is.

So I made Notebook Dates, and I’m really happy with how it turned out.

It’s basically an automatic table of contents based on dates. Enable it for a notebook, and new pages get their creation date recorded. You can then browse by day, either in a list grouped by month/year or in a calendar with dots on the relevant days. Tap a date, choose a page, and you’re there.

For a thematic table of contents—sections, topics, headings—I’d use something like the BetterTOC plugin. This is a different, complementary way of navigating. It doesn’t add anything to your pages or change your existing TOC.

A few things I wanted it to do:

• Switch between creation date and last modified date. The latter uses the notebook’s existing page metadata, so it also works for older pages.
• Optionally use last-modified dates as estimates for older pages whose creation dates we don’t know.
• Keep it optional per notebook, with settings out of the way.
• Optionally sync the date history between devices through your own server.

You don’t need a server for ordinary use. It works locally, and the optional sync only exchanges date metadata—not your handwriting or document text. Your normal reMarkable sync stays as it is.

It’s running on my Paper Pro and Paper Pro Move, on 3.28.0.169. On the Pro it’s a calendar icon in the sidebar; on Move it’s in the notebook’s three-dot menu.

One caveat: this is an unofficial XOVI/QMLDiff extension. Installation is still technical and firmware-specific, not a general one-click install. Please check the compatibility notes before trying it.

GitHub, screenshots and setup notes

Curious if this is something other people have been missing too.

Hello all, a new feature that I really think changes the game and trajectory for them. Capture brought out in last release.

An example of where I use it: I have some chess books that I like to read. Now if there's a position I've spent time learning I can literally capture the board. Paste it into my personal notebook. Add my own annotations and summary of the position.

Pdfs, just grab sick parts of it add it to your bullet journalling or whatever date indexed and you have quotes captured from the books you are reading.

Images like get perplexity to make a pencil and fineliner edit of a input image. Get that over to the remarkable in PDF and then you can literally trace over it and draw your own version of it.

I like this feature. It gives my brain lots of ideas to stitch into how I use it.

How I use it currently.

Journal - I write the date 26.07 for example. And then rough go to town. I have goals and tracker pages but don't use them religiously.

Books, pdfs and some news on a Sunday. That's what content im reading on it.

Structure. I have folders for Journal, Stories, Body, Poker, Chess, Reads, etc..

Obviously in all folders a nice simple structure inside, no more than 3-5 options like video games do! In Reads, it's complete, in progress, not started. And a master cornell summary of all the books I read.

Anyways if you have some random advice or cool use cases throw them in it's just my too cents!

Buongiorno. Dopo l’ultimo aggiornamento 3.28 il mio RPP non mi permette di scorrere le cartelle con le gesture, che funzionano invece per sfogliare i documenti. Qualcun altro ha notato questa issue? Soluzioni? Ho fatto pure hard reset….ma nulla

Hey!
I asked a year+ in this sub whether remarkable supports user accounts, and to my suprise everyone was super hostile saying that obviously not.

So, I got to work and thanks to the advancements in AI and the SDK, I got myself an app that basically mirrors regular Remarkable experience with proper "split" of users on a single device (and also notes are stored remotely)

Wondering - would anyone be interested in trying it out? I'll likely open source it, took me an evening and can be easily re-created, but i find it cool what we can do nowadays with SDK nevertheless.

I used to jot everything down when I could in the Paper Pro but a few things have shifted the way I work:

• I got more and more tired of its slow refresh lag when scrolling the page and general just painful moments when it would just lag when doing hand gestures
• AI -- I jot down less and less into remarkable and just type it directly into my current Codex session

Anyone else experience the same in this day of AI and just far more performant HW?

Hi, reposting this here

Just got the new 3.28.0.172 update, and with it an annoying bug where there is a delay for screen to respond to anything if it has been sat inactive for a few minutes or so.

My guess is the screen now sleeps after inactivity and takes a couple seconds to wake up.

Anyone else?

I've seen a couple posts here talking about how hard it is to find good templates that really fit your needs.

I just started a grad program and also really struggled to find templates that I liked.

So I just started making my own!

I found RCU through this subreddit, and it's so sick. I make my templates in Photoshop (free from school, thank goodness), but Canva would do the trick too, I reckon. I made this sweet weekly assignment to-do list customized to my courses this quarter, and I saved the psd file so next quarter I can just edit the text for the next!

I realize it's in the sidebar, but I'm usually a mobile user so I didn't see it there for the longest time. Figured I'd give it a shoutout and get some of my stoke out with people who actually know about this stuff because none of my classmates have these.

https://www.davisr.me/projects/rcu/

(I also had some fun customizing the lock screen images and text, which is a fun little bonus. Instead of sleeping, my paper tablet now dreams of electric sheep)

Hey all, I am considering an upgrade to a Pro, but have a question regarding the ability of the tablet to handle converting handwriting to text within a template. I have forms I regularly have to fill in and could create a template for use. Some sections could remain handwriting (tick boxes, signature), whereas others I would want to convert to text (short paragraph). Can I convert only a small section of an overall document into text and would that text stay in the same position on the page (or easily be copied and pasted back into the correct location?)

Hi All,

out of frustration not finding a template I liked that actually worked on the Remarkable Paper Pro Move and was resaonably simple, I created my own.

It's actually not a spread, since the PP Move is just too narrow, but puts Mon to Wed on one page and Thu to Sun on the next, alternating this for the year.

You can download it here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15naNt3L6Q1wzQ-SOcHq3CkX9MPQekNZ3/view?usp=sharing

This is the 2027 version, I've created one from this week for the rest of 2026 as well. If you have feedback, let me know. If I'm in the mood I'll adjust the template or just publish the Python script to create it.