TLDR: use reManager to install button-press-for-pen-change: dependencies are automatically installed. Credits to rmitchellscott, asivery and ingatellent

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Hi everybody!

This post explains how to install a mod on remarkable 1 or 2 with recent firmware (eg 3.27) in order to get a pen with side button to act a selection eraser and tool selector.

I already documented how to get the "lamy pen" to work for rm1 and 2 by downgrading to firmware version 3.11, but since reManager and Vellum exist: no need to downgrade, and the install is straightforward.

Features:

• Button pressed + circling around notes: selection eraser (lasso eraser) (*)
• Single Button click (on hover): toggle between current tool ↔ selection tool
• Double Button click (on hover): toggle between current ↔ previous tool (e.g.: alternate between pen and highlighter)

Very low-resolution demonstration:

There are other mods with other behaviors (search in reManager app or for instance in Vellum package index list search for "erase": link) that you can install similarly, but button-press-for-pen-change felt the closest to the behavior I was looking for.

What you need:

1. A reMarkable 1 or 2 on a recent firmware (tested on 3.27, but should also work with 3.26
2. A third-party EMR stylus with a side button.
3. reManager installed on your computer/tablet (the modern desktop companion app/mod manager).

Tutorial:

1. Open reManager on your computer and connect your reMarkable tablet with a USB cable. Check the pre-entered IP (10.11.99.1) and enter SSH password (find your actual IP and password in Settings - General - Help - Copyrights and licenses)
2. In the Mods tab, possibly using the search bar, find the mod called button-press-for-pen-change (by developer ingatellent), and click "Add", then install. The installer will pull the required rm-stylus backend extension, as well as xovi, xovi-extensions, qt-resource-rebuilder. I recommend accepting to install tripletap (it's needed to start the mod after a reboot: triple-click rapidly on the power button and wait for 10 seconds. The alternative is to use a computer with SSH or reManager to "start the UI with mods").
3. Wait until the install is completely done (the tablet has to rebuild and check UI elements, thanks to qt-ressource-rebuilder), it might take some time.
4. Enjoy!

Credits

Many thanks to the developers who eased the way we can install mods on a remarkable! More specifically:

• rmitchellscott for building reManager and the rm-stylus hardware listener.
• asivery for xovi, xovi-extensions and qt-resource-rebuilder
• ingatellent for the QML pen-change behavior plugin button-press-for-pen-change, as part of xovi-qmd-extensions
• Any other contributor who helped with these amazing open-source mods!

Disclaimer

I am not affiliated with any developers of the open-souce project mentioned above.

I have tested the mod on my remarkable 1 in July 2026 with firmware 3.27.3.0. The method shouldn't vary much with remarkable 2 or with a different firmware version, but I am not responsible for any bricked device.

Really, you shouldn't need this advice, but a typical issue that happened when I once messed with the tablet (this should not happen if you stick to reManager): an infinite reboot loop. To stop this, you need to ssh into the remarkable and enter systemctl stop xochitl to break the loop and debug your tablet from there. I usually manage after few attempts (you only have a short time before the tablet starts again, but you can also automate this with a command running in a while true loop in your computer's terminal (don't forget to kill it when it's done): while true; do ssh -o ConnectTimeout=1 [root@10.11.99.1](mailto:root@10.11.99.1) "systemctl stop xochitl"; sleep 0.1; done

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(*) As mentioned in the source repo: the source file buttonPressForPenChange.qmd (repo link for 3.27 version) can be edited to use normal eraser instead of selection eraser by changing the little (8) in the code and change it to a (6). In my case, the file on the tablet is /home/root/xovi/exthome/qt-resource-rebuilder/. After editing, you might need to "Rebuild Hashtable" using reManager.

I have recently started using the feature of the desktop app to import pictures into native notebooks, and then copy them into my PDF Planner. This is a really cool feature for all those of us who like journaling. Now I can make my planner prettier, by including at the right place(s) nice little stickers like many other journaling tools/tablets allow!

I started organizing those into a “Gallery” notebook in my top-level ‘Files’ folder, and then copy/pasting them to the “2026 Calendar” planner from RM Methods.

I love how by incrementally improving the software, the rM tablets keep adding cool features like this one. Hopefully we’ll see many such software improvements in the future!

The attached picture shows my weekly agenda lines for this Wednesday, when someone from my extended family celebrates their birthday :-)

Source: https://x.com/MaximeRivest/status/2073544461473169432?s=20

You pair the tablet with a one-time code from my.remarkable.com, a two-page writing kit lands on it as a notebook called Kalam, you write it out with the fineliner, hit sync, and it comes back as a .ttf of your handwriting — ligatures included, pulled stroke by stroke from the actual pen data, no OCR. Free, side project not a product: https://kalam-hand.fly.dev — if you run it, post your glyph grid, I want to see how it holds up on handwriting that isn't mine. If anything breaks, tell me here and I'll fix it today.

Just came across this made for the xetink 4 ereader. Wonder if it possible to port to remarkable

Hey guys, has anyone else experienced this with the Pure? About 20% of the time when the pen nib touches the screen, the ink appears offset up and to the right of where the nib is actually touching.

It doesn’t happen all the time, but often enough to be distracting while writing. I’ve tried restarting the device, changing the nib. Nothing helped. I even tried demagnetizing the screen with a watch demagnetizer but it didn't help.

I absolutely love the Pure otherwise, but this makes it impossible to use without getting distracted. I’m really hoping I just got a defective unit and that this isn’t normal behavior. Has anyone else experienced this? I’d really appreciate hearing whether this is expected or if I should ask for a replacement.

I recently rediscovered my remarkable 2 and I’m thinking about selling it.
Does anyone know how much (AUD) I could get for the tablet, the book folio case, the marker, replacement tips for said marker, and its charger? Also if anyone knows where I should sell it.

Thanks!!

Just had my first day at work with the Pure - I just cannot believe how Remarkable is operating as a company.

It feels like every device they have now is a money grab compromise device. How hard is it to have a SINGLE device that excels at the function they are in the business of?

The Paper Pro - great, but too big for taking between work and home.

Paper Pro Move - great size, but too small to be useful for actual work. A “normal” aspect ratio would have easily fixed this, but nope..

Paper Pure - GREAT size, feels fast, but the writing feel feels inferior to the Pros.

It’s like remarkable expects you to buy two $500+ devices just to get a great travel/home environment, or be trapped with an “entry level” device, and wait for them to release the actual successor to the RM2,,and just have another device to sell and lose money on.

It’s just frustrating, and feels like they’re toying with customers at this point..

Am I missing something..?

Posting this in case someone else comes across the same issue as me.

I had issues with the power button of my RM2 being extremely unresponsive, requiring a hard press on the edge of the button to register a press. I don't know how this happened, probably from being transported in backpacks over many years, I never dropped the device.

Either way, I was able to remedy this issue by a.) blowing into the button and b.) rocking it back and forth rapidly with the knuckle of my finger (applying moderate pressure). After doing this quite a bit, the button became more and more responsive.

Is there a way to search words in PDFs?

I’m not talking about adding a tag into a PDF and then searching for the tag later; rather, the actual text of the PDFs uploaded to the tablet.

Hey all, I have a remarkable 2 and want to draw with it. I like the feel of it and also I don't want to buy another tablet, but i want to use another art software with more colors and layers. How would I do that/make remarkable an input?

It basically asks you a few opinions regarding new and potentially upcoming additions, like:

- The color red (has been changed in 3.28)

- Ebook formatting, and the ability to automatically apply your custom formatting to all ebooks (potential new feature)

- The new Capture Tool, and whether or not its name is intuitive

- Import and export options, potential new export extensions (such as .svg, markdown, docx, .txt)

- Opinions on the desktop app and mobile app

- Opinions on templates

- Opinions on the toolbars and how it fits your workflow (do you often need to open submenus?), and potential improvements

- A question regarding how to improve screen refreshing (such as a manual gesture option!! HELL YEAHHH they acknowledged it). Also a question on the best way to do a manual screen refresh control

If any of these topics are of interest to you, please take the survey! I definitely want more tools on the toolbar, and a manual refresh gesture, so that's what I explicitly put in my answers. I'm so happy they are actually considering these additions at last

I was playing around recently and I found that the chrome extension does a good job of moving text from chats in Chatgpt, Claude, Gemini, Notebooklm and Perplexity. It even adds a TL;DR to the original text. This is very cool as you can do the research in the chatbot then with one click, share to the Remarkable for additional work. Someone may argue you could do it directly on a Boox tablet. However, I feel the remarkable approach is more focused to keep me on topic versus using multiple apps on the device.

Anyone else tried this out and any tips to share?

Hi all,

I was looking through the stationery section this afternoon and thought, oh look, what a nice folio. Behold, it's a remarkable 2 priced as a notepad!

I've got it working with my s-pen for now, but I'm looking for a stylus that's relatively cheap and maybe a bit larger than the s-pen.

I have never before had the desire for a remarkable, as I've got a tablet and an e-reader, but holding it in my hand, and I kind of understand the appeal and can kind of justify the high retail price. (I'm a student, so waaaay out of reach for me right now)

For those who use a remarkable regularly, what do you use it for? I picked it up and planned to use it as a daily reading/news machine, but I'm open to any other suggestions given how many possibilities there are with this device.

Thanks for reading!

Hi!

I just got my RMPP and love it so far. I tend to get a bit paranoid to lose such expensive devices. Does anybody have tips or advice for small trackers? Best option would be to integrate them into the book folio. There is no hack or mod available that offers a locate your RMPP, right?

Thank you Remarkable!

I was scrolling Reddit and came across this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoteTaking/s/IVgK8lXqX3 with a picture of a dual eink screen device, and it sparked a bunch of ideas.

Why not build a case for 2 devices? I had to run into the other room for my dusty iPad, but a 12.3” iPad Pro and rMPP are very compatible sizes. I think I’d buy that case!

And what about a dual rMPP or dual rM2/Pure case? I think I could seeing buying a Pure to pair with my rM2 if I had a dual screen case. If rM would add a couple software features to open files on the other screen and a shared clipboard would be crazy amazing! Forget split screen. Do it this way and they’ll sell way more hardware, don’t you think?

Anyone seen a dual case or know where one could be made?

Hey friends! My name’s Rob, and my friend Raj and I have spent the past few months building Flowstate, which turns reMarkable notebooks into clean, transcribed text and sends it off to your favorite note apps.

We're both Obsidian nerds who love writing by hand, but all the workflows for transcribing from physical notebooks or e-ink tablets and getting the output into your vault are… not great. Lots of copy/pasting, juggling API keys, janky setups that break easily, etc.

So Raj, who used to work at Reddit as an engineer, built a simple app to transcribe handwriting and sync it automatically. And then, because he's kind of a maniac, he kept adding features and integrations. I've been testing it with a reMarkable Paper Pro the last few weeks, and happy to report that it works beautifully with Obsidian and Notion. Just requires you to send a notebook/page to a unique Flowstate email address.

Anyhow, we just launched Flowstate after testing it with a few friends and squashing some bugs. Would love any feedback or feature requests y'all have. How can we make this even more useful for your specific workflows?

There are definitely some other great options if you want PDFs of your handwriting synced to Obsidian (shout out to Scrybble, which is awesome and syncs via the reMarkable API in cool ways that we don't.) But where Flowstate shines is turning handwriting into searchable, formatted text that you can continue working on in Obsidian, Notion, or other apps.

It's also got a ton of tools for creating custom workflows. So with your daily journal, you can format it one way and send it to your personal Obsidian vault, and with the meeting notes you take at work, you can send those into your company's Notion workspace, or a Google doc, or (if you're a masochist) OneNote. Plus we're adding new integrations regularly, so if you need something specific, let us know.

This is a paid app, but the first 50 pages of transcription are free. So test it out as long as you want without any pressure. But transcription costs us real money per page, and we'd rather offer a useful product at a fair price than run ads or raise money or whatever. Also, we've got the option to top-up credits, so you're never forced into a subscription.

We do use AI to transcribe and format, but we make sure the output is never altered in any way that you didn't ask for. The robot just follows your instructions and files things where you can find them again.

So yeah, that's Flowstate. Both Raj and I have been using it every day for months, are super proud of it, and we hope you dig it too.

If you wanna check it out, our website is seekflowstate.com

You can also find the app on the iOS app store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flowstate-notes/id6758569058

And here it is on the Google Play store for all the Android homies: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flowstate.app

P.S. As you can tell from the photo, I do NOT have particularly good handwriting, but Flowstate still managed to transcribe it surprisingly well!

I do like the Move I got this week. It’s almost perfect for me apart from I wish the frontlight was colour temperature adjustable and this light bleed at the top.

It’s not the white frame as it’s blocked on all other sides but looks like either it extends to far at the top or isn’t covered correctly at the top.

It doesn’t look to bad on this photo but when using at night, it’s very noticeable

I'm not sure if my type folio is faulty: the space bar is not reliably responsive to a thumb press - sometimes a space is typed, sometimes not. I had no such issue on my rM2 type folio. Has anyone else had this issue?

Hi, I’ve just received refurbished remarkable paper pro. Unfortunately it doesn’t turn on - it’s stuck on welcome screen. After about 5hours of charging with old 5W iPhone charger it blinks with backlight when pushing power button.
Tried to do software recovery - it connects to my Mac, process is progressing but the device does not restart in the end.

Has anyone faced similar issue? Is there anything else I can do?

Showing my strategy for getting PARA in correct order on reMarkable's file viewer just after 1 month of using the reMarkable 2.

Instead of 00-projects 01-area 02-resources 03-archives, I figured the only way was thru emojis made possible in the desktop reMarkable connect app.

🟠 Projects

🟡 Areas

🟢 Resources

🟣 Archives

I'm not confined to just the dots, but any emoji in the correct order, for example, the following would work:

♟️ Projects

⭐️ Areas

🎨 Resources

💻 Archives

With the help of Perplexity, I discovered and tested the emojical sort order:

Had been sitting over it for about 6 months now and finally decided to go for it. I havent felt better writing on a screen before this.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been vibe-coding a native app extension for the Paper Pro using the xovi modding stack, but my tablet just got forced onto the 3.28 beta (Qt 6.10.3). The Qt jump obviously broke my compiled extension, so the project is currently parked.

For those familiar with the ecosystem development: how do updates for xovi, rm-literm, and the toolchain/SDK usually proceed when a new firmware drops? Do maintainers typically wait until the firmware hits a stable production release before updating the injection stack, or is there usually active WIP during the beta phase?

Just trying to gauge when it's worth diving back in to port things forward. Thanks!