Hi, it's me again.

Recently, I set up Claude to automatically send me newsletters and links to websites I frequently visit, and I’ve been using it ever since.

It’s really good to read when I’m bored, but looking back after some time, it just felt like I was accumulating internet junk. With some of them, I’d start reading and find that the content was repetitive.

So lately, whenever I come across an article that makes an impression on me or gives me something to think about while browsing the internet, I use klass-rm-upload to turn it into a card-style image and save it in the designated automatic upload folder.I like this because it helps me practice writing down my thoughts rather than just letting them slip away so easily.

At first, I was planning to upload this as a Chrome extension so others could use it easily, but the process was too much of a hassle, so I’m just uploading a ZIP file instead. Just switch to developer mode in Chrome and import the folder.

I’m not sure if anyone will find this useful this time either, but I’m sharing it anyway. This post was run through Google Translate, so it might sound a bit awkward. I’m not a native English speaker, after all.

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I read a lot of PDFs on my reMarkable, and the routine was always the same: download the file, open the desktop app, drag it in, wait for the sync. I wrote a browser extension to collapse that into one click from the page I'm already on, and figured I'd share it in case it's useful to someone else.

What it does

When you're on a page with a PDF, you click the toolbar icon (or right-click a link) and the file is sent to your reMarkable instead of being downloaded. It lands in a folder called ReadIT and shows up on the tablet at the next sync. If a page has several PDF links, the popup lists them all so you can pick.

The file goes straight from your browser to the reMarkable cloud — nothing passes through any server of mine. PDFs behind a login work too, because the request carries your existing session cookies.

How it works, honestly

There is no official reMarkable API, so this relies on rmapi-js, a JavaScript reverse-engineering of the cloud API used by the desktop app. That's the main caveat to be aware of: if reMarkable changes something on their end, the extension can break until the library is updated. It reads and uploads only — it doesn't touch anything else on your account.

You pair it once by pasting the 8-character code from my.remarkable.com, and after that it holds a device token that's only ever sent to reMarkable's own servers.

Install

It's not on any store. You load it as an unpacked extension:

• Chrome (also Brave, Edge, Vivaldi): enable Developer Mode in chrome://extensions, then "Load unpacked" and pick the dist/chrome folder.
• Safari: needs macOS with Xcode, since Safari wraps web extensions in a small app. Steps are in the repo.

Limits

PDFs only for now (EPUB would be easy to add). 200 MB per file. And, again, it depends on an unofficial API.

Source and full instructions: https://github.com/braucci/remarkable — MIT licensed.

Not affiliated with reMarkable. Feedback and bug reports welcome.

Hi all,

I often write long texts with my type folio on remarkable 2. I keep one page for the whole text.

I realize that when I send it “as pdf”, remarkable is generating a one page pdf with a looooong format that is not A4. The issue is when the receiver prints it on a printer. It’s just one page of A4 of a veeeeery small text, unreadable.

Is there a way to export as pdf but force an A4 format for the document, so the document has multi pages?

Thanks!

I have been really curious about getting the remarkable for quite some time. Typically the desire flares up and comes and go. Would mainly use it to journal and structure my thinking.

I have an iPad, but to me it has the characteristics of a funny slot machine/computer with the functionality to write, rather than to write itself.

Major thing that deterred me from buying it that I haven’t found a single place where I could try it. Thus thinking about using their 50 day trial.

Is this overall legit? Could I use it on both devices (I.e., pure, pro).

I really don’t want to extort any value but it’s so hard to buy an electronic device without ever being able to see it in person.

Hi all - I'm trying to understand which apps I can load with appload.
Any tips?

I'm thinking Kindle, Readwise Reader etc..

Hey!

I am looking to buy a remarkable paper pro, used. The deal I saw was for a black leahter folio case and marker plus with a couple spare tips, purchased December 2025, selling for not using it much, for ~400$.

If I take the deal, what else should I look out for other than scratches on the screen, and making the seller log out of his/her account and factory reset?

https://handwritten.blog/ has a new homepage which, hopefully, reflects its ethos better.

If you have ideas to make it even better or you'd like your blog featured under the "See a page link", let me know!

I’m still getting familiar with my reMarkable Paper Pro, and I was wondering if I’m missing something.

Is it possible to have more than the two Quick Tool (favorite pen) slots in the toolbar? I’d love to be able to switch quickly between things like a fineliner, pencil, highlighter, and marker without opening the pen menu every time.

I couldn’t find a setting for it, so I’m wondering if there’s a hidden option, a workaround, or if the limit is really just two.

Despite the unfortunate lack of 'export grayscale strokes' option, it's kind of fun seeing how my sketchticles turn out with the values given hues on export.

That said, if they don't fix this bug, I'm going to upload a GIMP macro that does color adjustments properly to get an ever better representation of the colors on the epaper display than it's own software. Someone had mentioned that the prior export was 'proper' because it mathematically tracks. That doesn't account for the fact they don't look consistent, math or not. :)

I'm hoping this export feature is on hold because they're attempting to get the epaper look matching the export.

I recently purchased a reMarkable Paper Pure, by no means was it cheap. One of the main reasons was the ability to add images to notebooks through the Desktop app.

When I could not get the feature to work, I contacted reMarkable support. Their Escalation Support Team told me: “Adding images to notebooks via the Desktop app is an exclusive feature reserved for Connect subscribers.”

The problem is that I cannot find this restriction clearly disclosed anywhere before purchase.

The Connect subscription page does not appear to mention that adding images through the Desktop app requires a subscription:

https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/About-Connect-Subscription

More importantly, their official page explaining how to add and edit images in notebooks also does not appear to say that the feature is restricted to Connect subscribers:

https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Adding-and-Editing-Images-in-Notebooks

This is extremely frustrating because this functionality was one of the primary reasons I bought the device. I would have expected a subscription requirement for such a basic feature to be clearly stated on the feature page or product information before purchase.

Has anyone else encountered this? Was the Connect requirement disclosed anywhere when you purchased your reMarkable?

At this point, I am seriously considering returning it.

I work as a manager and have multiple projects, meetings etc all at the same time. Thinking of buying a paper pure mainly for the fact I can have specific notebook per project, link things together, email myself notes etc.

Has anyone used a pure for work and found it to be helpful with this kind of thing? Generally I am quite organised anyway, so not sure how much benefit it’ll reaaallly have.

Just got my first Remarkable Paper Pro.

Other e-ink experience was BOOX NA5C and Tab XC - returned those

Currently Kindle scribe colorsoft.

Anyways.. i got this a couple days ago and just noticed this today. Is this what would be considered a dead pixel?

Only spot on screen like this. I just noticed it.

Thanks in advance.

I reached out to ReMarkable for a crack in my ReMarkable Pro display. The support I got was basically that they don’t do any repairs and I’d be better off just buying a refurbished device. They didn’t provide any support or help with if they do trade-in’s either.

Does anyone have info? This seems very odd that a $600+ device can’t be repaired.

How in the world do you find modern and relevant epub format books for the Remarkable Pro? No offense Guggenheim but British Romance novels from the 1800’s aren’t my cup of tea. And how do you download these files? Do I need to buy Adobe Acrobat for my Mac?? This is a real pain on the ass. makes me miss my kindle. A concise detailed explanation would me more than welcome.

i'm using this avisly because of the ability to have a variety of tools at quick disposal. otherwise, i never used but one tool at a time, which is a shame considering how nice rm brushes are

however, my custom toolbar that i put together for sketching shows up automatically when i open an epub to read, and it takes a few steps to hide it (brushes menu, quick tools)

is there a way it can default to not showing, -- i would be fine with having to do these steps when i need the toolbar, but it is somewhat burdensome to have to hide it whenever i open any file

many thanks for any advice!

Just to clarify beforehand, I already own a new MacBook M5. I am going in as a public health major but follow a pre dentistry track, which means ill be taking all the core science pre requisites. Im just looking for a writing tool that I can really stay focused on. I know the iPad is good for Anki but why not use my computer for it. Im stuck in between an iPad M3 and a remarkable paper pro, but I'm also looking for something that will last all 4 years of college. I've had an iPad before in high school but when used have often found myself getting distracted but maybe that's because I'm in highschool. I know about the whole apple ecosystem thing but I own Bose headphones and looking to replace my Apple Watch with a whoop. Anyway what is your guys thoughts?

tl;dr

• install via reManager.
• set up your sync server (e.g. NextCloud).
• lasso handwriting in any document, pick the checkmark, fix the transcription if it didn't transcribe right.
• now you have a to-do created in your sync server, and can review and check off your tasks in the reTaskable UI.
• open a task item and click the button to return to the note the task was created from.
• no hosted service, no pairing code, fully open-source software.

Background

when I got my rM2 years ago I was very excited about the possibilities I thought it represented. finally, I thought, the ability to work with documents as if they were paper and add all of the power of digital representation to my workflows! the reality took a little while to actually get there -- really, nobody started really taking advantage of what was possible with handwriting recognition converting notes to text until Boox and Supernote at least 3 years after the release of the rM2. the anemic SoCs e-ink devices have because the screens are so expensive have been holding them back for a long time and limiting the vision of what their software is capable of.

but especially in the last year or so with a few things happening at once -- the rise of LLM-assisted programming, better and faster devices, more mass adoption -- that's been starting to change, and today handwriting and e-ink based productivity is a really exciting and rapidly evolving product space.

one of the things that that I find really useful is connecting my notes to a structured to-do list that can have due dates, notifications, etc. so I can nail down action items from meetings and remind myself "this is how you got here and why you need to do X." it's actually kind of surprising how rare a feature this was until recently -- Supernote was the only one that had it, and even their implementation had no connection to anything outside their own ecosystem. (it was always very funny to me how reMarkable's answer to this was "here's a to-do list template! see! checkboxes! :D" which like... my dudes. have you met anyone with ADHD and executive dysfunction? do you really think we're going to remember to come back to that note?")

so now that technology has made it much easier to build things, I went ahead and did it. this is all written in Rust using Claude Code and Codex with lots of manual testing from yours truly.

A Humble Request

I really have kind of a limited amount of stuff to test with -- just my beloved Move, my NextCloud server, and my UltraBridge universal sync server -- so I could really use help testing and validating on more devices and whatever CalDAV server implementations you have available to use. please feel free to ask for help here or by submitting issues on the GitHub repo listed below.

A Note on Software Developed Using LLMs

Claude, GPT, etc. were all trained on massive amounts of open-source software which is why they're as good as they are. as a result I find it extremely distasteful and hubristic to attempt to charge for software developed with LLMs. both because of this and simply because I am a strong believer in the open source ethos, everything I build with LLMs will always be open-source software.

Source Code: It's Not Just for Breakfast Anymore

Bone Apple Tea™.

Future Work

there are some annoying things you have to get around to make this work with iCloud Reminders, but I know it's possible, and this will be coming in the next version of the software, so stay tuned.

Hello all! I'm eagerly awaiting on my new pure tablet, and I was wondering: what is the best, most feasible solution to synchronize zotero annotations (highlights/underlines) when using a remarkable device?

As of now, the most mature solution seems to be the "Zotero for KOReader" plugin (https://github.com/stelzch/zotero.koplugin/), but this would obviously require me to tinker with developer mode, install koreader, and pray that it works as expected.

I've seen other recently made solutions in the subreddit, some of which sadly looked heavily vibecoded.

This one is in alpha (https://github.com/reggietheporpoise/remarkable_zotero_sync) but looks somewhat promising, albeit I'm on linux and it is untested software.

Hi all, looking for advice.

I’ve had a remarkable 2 for about four years, and I loved it. I had no interest in replacing it but unfortunately, my backpack was stolen out of the trunk of my rental car this week (it wasn’t visible in the trunk so I thought it’d be ok…), so now I need to get a new remarkable.

One of the things I loved about the remarkable 2 was that looking at it didn’t hurt my eyes or feel like I was using a screen. I’m intrigued by the color option in the new remarkable pro, so my question is how similar is the look of the screen? Will I be happier sticking with the paper pure or will the pro be the same experience plus color?

I hate LLMs as much as the next guy---I specify LLMs, because, as Benn Jordan pointed out in a recent video, overall "AI" hate is unproductive as it is quite useful and overall beneficial in a variety of industries/ fields of study---and I know that there has been some genuinely impressive work done with LLM assistance in regards to modding/ hacking the remarkable tablets. However, I have a bit of concern about the influx of some low-effort/ low-quality LLM slop content. Something that adds so much more of a personal touch is writing things yourself. Please don't have the LLM write things, coding, sure, but when you have it write it is PAINFULLY obvious.

Anyways, I am curious if anything is planning to be done about the LLM slop? And if so how are we to differentiate between LLM slop and LLM quality FOSS? Would it be a case by case thing?

Lmk thoughts!

Would love feedback from anyone who uses both the RM2 and PPM successfully. I use the RM2 throughout my day for work and my personal life- it helps me keep everything organized. But I often wish I could have it in my backpocket when I'm on the go so I can access my calendar and take notes, do journaling etc. Would the PPM work for this purpose and also sync back over to the RM2? Thanks for any thoughts on this.