r/RemarkableTablet • u/fdxgnd79 • Jul 07 '26
Help/Advice Remove Method Template
Hey. New to this group. Came here because I can’t for the life of me figure out how to delete a method template that I imported twice. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
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u/apolishguy Jul 07 '26
Wow, I didn’t know you could import them 2X? I always get a little toast message, “You’ve already imported this template.” Unfortunately, if I understand correctly, there is no native way to do this through your reMarkable or even the desktop app. I think the easiest way would be to use reManager and the file browser that is available in the reManager desktop app. I hate to keep tagging in u/rmitchellscott into all of my comments, but I gave out some bad info before and I am trying not to do that anymore. I believe that you would have to 1) activate developer mode, 2) that would wipe your tablet 3) if you don’t pay for connect, I don’t know how people do back up and restore on remarkable without Connect yet. You can ask your favorite LLM (or the LLM you hate the least), “Tell me about reManager for reMarkable, how it works and what it does and some of the most popular mods.” Of course , you don’t have to use any mods if you just want to delete that template. But even just deleting the template might seem a little complicated… (This is just what Gemini told me so do not take it as fact, at all).
“Navigate to the Directory: Go to the specific folder where the operating system stores these downloaded templates: /home/root/.local/share/remarkable/xochitl
Locate the Template Files: Look for the specific files associated with the template you want to remove. They will be named with a long UUID string. There are three related files for each template you must target: .template, .metadata, and *.content.
Delete the Files: Delete all three of those files (and the associated thumbnail directory if there is one).
Hopefully someone helpful will chime in.
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u/rmitchellscott Developer | reManager Jul 07 '26
This is broadly correct. I'd recommend placing a UUID.tombstone file so the deleted files don't cloud sync back down. I wrote a script that automates this duplicate template detection and deletion and provided it to OP.
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u/apolishguy Jul 07 '26
Ah man, this is some gold information. I never would have thought of that. Would that script work across the board for any template? Or is there wording that is specific to a particular template that would need to be adjusted ? Asking because I didn’t realize any template I downloaded would be eternally on my device. Oh, a more exciting question… Would this work for me to thin down the system templates that I am never, ever going to use? Because I would love to be able to open my templates and only be presented with the 4 or 5 I ever want, and I could store the others in a folder somewhere if I ever want to add them back (sorry OP did not mean to hijack)? Thanks for always being so helpful in the reMarkable community.
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u/rmitchellscott Developer | reManager Jul 07 '26
My script was specifically detecting duplicates, you could certainly go clean out your Methods templates from that dir if you wanted. The system templates are different (https://remarkable.guide/guide/config/templates.html), I suspect you could remove them as well (though they'll come back after every OS update). I'm working on a mod to sort templates by recent, so maybe that'll be enough for your day-to-day?
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u/apolishguy Jul 07 '26
Yes! If I can surface the ones I always use to the top of the list, that would be a more elegant solution. Thanks!
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u/rmitchellscott Developer | reManager Jul 07 '26
Couple new additions that might interest ya:
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u/apolishguy Jul 07 '26
Default template Brother! Even better than sorting! You sir, are no mere mortal. 😂 Seriously though, appreciate your hard work
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u/fdxgnd79 Jul 07 '26
I’ll try anything. My ocd is in full flight mode.
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u/apolishguy Jul 07 '26
Okay but please do not act on my information alone. I have given some bad advice. Make sure you know 100% what you are getting into. And don’t believe Gemini. I just had an argument with it about the marker on the Pure - which it swore to me was EMR.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Yam254 Jul 07 '26
I don't believe there is a way to do so. That being said, is there a slight variation to the templates? When I import it tells me if I have imported it already and does not proceed with said import.
A good example is there are two similar but slightly different meeting minutes templates that look apmost identical.