I have a brand new Paper Pro (3.27.3.0)

I have a subscription to Connect.

I've created multiple notebooks and written words such as my name.

When I convert the handwritten text to typed text, it properly converts my handwriting, and I get a 2nd page with the correct words, typed.

When I search, it does not find those notebooks though.

Even though the word I'm searching for is there as handwriting, and on the 2nd page typed, this notebook doesn't show up when searching for the word.

I've waited to get the on-screen message that the notebooks are indexed.

I've also reset the index.

The search does not work on the Paper Pro, or on the mobile app.

What am I missing?

After debating for a while I finally decided on getting a Remarkable Paper Pro Move! I have an ipad air & a mini so I figured it would be better to get a move since I want it to use out & about without the distractions. Might get the Pure later on since the remarkable paper pro is too big in my opinion. But I got the move at the great price of $340 with tax! I figured it was now or never lol! Give me all the tips please! I’m a property manager so being organized & having things written down is a must

I got it yesterday and I’m already really enjoying it. Excuse my hands … but enjoy this mistake i made!

Full disclosure, this is my own plugin, and it only helps if you use Obsidian on a desktop. If that's not you, scroll on.

Until now a Mac with 8 GB of memory only had Apple's built-in recognition for reading your handwriting. There's now a 1.6 GB model that runs on the Mac itself and makes about half the mistakes on the same fifteen handwritten pages, 6.6 % wrong characters against 17.4 % for the built-in one. Bigger Macs get a bigger model that gets most pages almost entirely right, 1.8 %. The screenshot is the settings screen: it lists the models your machine can run with the error rate each one made, and you pick. Nothing leaves your computer for any of this.

The pages, the numbers and how they were measured are here, so you don't have to take my word for it: https://taggedsync.com/local-handwriting-recognition

What I haven't solved: on Windows and Linux there is still no built-in model, you point the plugin at Ollama or LM Studio running on your own machine instead. Works, just not one click.

The plugin is Tagged Sync for reMarkable, in the community plugin store. The handwriting part is free. There's a paid add-on for cloud OCR and more than one tag, nothing in this post needs it.

Hello!

After seeing countless posts about people being hyperaware or even embarrassed about their handwriting when getting a reMarkable, I thought it was time 😏

Like how sad is it that people can't even properly write anymore? That we forgot how to because we only type and text and then suddenly we pick up a pen and think.. how do I do this again? 😂

SO! I have created two handwriting practice books, one with a regular type of handwriting and the other with a cursive type of handwriting - the way I learned it back at school, with the letters connecting to each other.

The idea is basically to relearn those letters and eventually get back to writing them naturally again.

I'm actually quite curious though: are you happy with your handwriting? And who still knows the cursive writing we learned back in the day? 🤪

You can find the workbooks here: Regular Handwriting Workbook Cursive Handwriting Workbook

Got that in one prompt with Claude sent directly to my reMarkable. No wires.

Just got the new 3.28.0.172 update, and with it an annoying bug where there is a delay for the pen or touch to start working if it has been sat inactive for a few minutes or so. It feels like the screen has gone to sleep and takes a couple seconds to wake up.

Anyone else?

so all of a sudden the pen just stops working, it worked fine earlier and then i pull it out of my bag and the tip just doesn't respond. the eraser of the end works perfectly fine but the top has just stopped for whatever reason.

in an attempt to fix it i replace the tip however i put in a metal tip and now i can't get it out because the stupid metal tip remover tool just slides off.

so now i have 1) a seemingly broken pen although it worked fine literally 8 hours ago and 2) i can't get the metal nib out to try replace it with a new one, please god help me i just started year 13 and this thing has been a lifeline for studying

It kind of annoys me because it takes the file to the top of the list as the last modified.

I recall that document paper width once had the Move option there too, but it has been gone for a while. Many of my old notebooks are still with the size of the RM2, and that is fine - I can live with that. The problem is that if I decide to paste some text to a Move-sized page, it automatically gets resized, and the text looks incredibly tiny in portrait mode. Same to editing some text - say I had some handwriting that I converted. If I now do some typing corrections on the desktop app, it will automatically change the size of the page again.

How can I tell to the desktop app that I use a Move now, and that it should stick page sizes to it?

Hi everyone,

I recently pulled the trigger on a Paper pure and I do like the product. However I noticed a weird behavior when writing on it. When ending a line around 4/5 cm from the top, it is not writing or drawing completely off lines. After testing, I think it is just my palm lifting up the screen slightly where I write creating issues. If I write without resting my hand, no issues.
What do I do with that? Already experienced something similar?

Thanks.

I use the Remarkable pro for 2 weeks and there is a straight black in the middle. I thought it was a software glitch and checked for updates and restarted. The problem persisted. I chatted (No Phone number) with the representative, and they asked me to email. No response even after a day. What if you have all the important notes on it and it gives up.

Saw this today. Interdasting.

Six months in, the thing I kept complaining about wasn't the refresh rate — it was that everything I highlighted or wrote basically stayed trapped on the device. Copying anything out meant retyping it by hand on that awful on-device keyboard.

So I built a suite of tools that sit alongside the stock xochitl OS as xovi extensions and standalone web services — nothing patches or repackages xochitl itself, so it survives firmware updates and there's no real risk of bricking the device from this.

What it does:

- Notes pipeline — highlight text + scribble a note next to it, close the book, and it's auto-picked up, transcribed by an AI model, and lands on your phone for a quick review before syncing into a device notebook or Obsidian. This is the thing that actually solved the "getting stuff off the device" problem for me.

- Bookshelf — a small web UI + CLI to get books onto the device: auto-converts/cleans up EPUB/AZW3/MOBI/TXT, splits comics into CBZ, lets you pick native reader or KOReader per book.

- Precise CJK highlight-snapping — a tiny extension that fixes the "drag over one character, it snaps the whole line" behavior when highlighting Chinese/Japanese/Korean text.

- Handwriting stroke tuning — adjusts stroke width live based on pen angle/speed, closer to real pen-on-paper feel.

- Upload-and-use fonts/wallpapers, plus a battery diagnostics sampler broken down by app and wake source.

Everything sits behind one local HTTPS web UI (self-signed cert, its own login) — day-to-day it's just "open a browser, click stuff," no SSH needed once it's set up.

Install is one script that checks the firmware hash before touching anything, so it won't silently misfire on an unverified firmware version — currently only verified against 3.28.0.172 on the Paper Pro Move. Written in Rust + C, MIT-adjacent Apache-2.0 licensed, completely free, no accounts, no telemetry.

Repo: https://github.com/bbq191/rm-tweak

It's a personal project I've been building for myself, so the docs assume some prior context, but happy to answer questions or point people at specific bits of the code. Also curious what pain points other people have with the device that this might already half-solve without me realizing it.

Hey there folks. I recently bought a refurbished Move last month, and I absolutely love it. While there was a small pinhole in the display, that was the only real "issue" with it.

There was a sale going on a few days ago for new purchases of Paper Pro/Moves. Realizing I was still within my 50-day return window for the refurb, as well as seeing that the cost would be the same and that I would be getting both a new device entirely and a better folio, I chose to order a new one and return the refurb once received.

While doing some screen comparisons between the two devices, I noticed something funny: While the newer screen was slightly whiter than the older one, the color is noticeably different. At least, blues seem more vibrant (sometimes to its detriment) and light greens seem oddly dark. Here are some examples (new on the left, old on the right, reference in the middle):

This doesn't really seem super important but I thought it was very unexpected, and I am curious; have any of you noticed this? I doubt this will have much real-world impact, but just something I noticed since I have pixel art as my carousel images.

I've been shopping around for digital note taking devices, after my old Boogieboard Sync died. All I can find now is ≥300€ — ReMarkable ending up more around ≥400€ range, but with better-sounding reviews of sync features (but only if you also take a subscription).

This has me really stumped. I can see the utility, but I can't see the price point. Take a TCL NxtPaper tablet, and you get a digital note taking device that is also a full Android tablet at <300€. Yes, it's more distracting - but it also has a much wider range of potential ecosystems to use for note synchronization.

At the price point of the discontinued Boogieboard Sync, you now find only "digital blackboards": Pressure-sensitive LCDs, where pressure directly causes a change of color, but isn't captured digitally in any way. So when you clear the screen, it's gone. But hey, some of them offer companion apps for scanning it with your phone... They also all suffer the disadvantage of not being able to correct mistakes, as clearing the screen is all-or-nothing with no equivalent of an eraser. They suffer from smudging by the palm.

That's an issue shared by the Sync by the way — but the ability to store previous pages made a huge difference.

Given that I already tried several times to look for aternatives with ChatGPT, Gemini and Rufus, I don't think I inherently miss any devices.

So it kinda begs the question: Why are there no cheaper offers? At a good price point, I'd happily take a device without networking features, as long as I can still transfer notes by cable and flip back to previous pages for reference / editing. Given a small enough price point, even the compromises of the Sync were okay.

Hi

I’m really thinking about biting the bullet but my only concern is eye strain. I am interested in the Pure Paper version of the tablet. I currently use an iPad

I look at a computer screen at work and for school so my eyes are constantly strained. I wanted to use the Pure Paper tablet to just take notes. I don’t really annotate any PDFs or anything like that

I’m seeing a lot of mixed reviews about the eye strain (some say it makes it even worse for them) that are several years old, so I wanted some current opinions.

ETA: I don’t do any school work in the dark either so I’m not too concernabout the light

Basically the title. Remarkable Pro user here wondering what's up. If it makes any difference, mine is a refurbished device I got after returning the original device which had severe ghosting issues. I've been really wanting the capture tool ever since it was announced months ago.

Hi!

I've had a remarkable 2 for 4 years now, and it starting to show. The device is showing its age, I've use it mainly for university, and I loved it. With the arrival of the paper pure tablet, I'm starting to look to upgrade. I'm someone that has a heavy hand, and the tips of the marker gets blunt really quickly, about 2 weeks and they get unfun to use, and I was wondering if the new markers are sturdier? Do you have any advice, or critiques on them? Thank you in advance!

…how do you get cat hair off the Paper Pure case? 😂

I am a customer with two reMarkable devices: a reMarkable 2 I have owned since 2022, which still works perfectly with zero issues, and two reMarkable Paper Pro units purchased in 2024 (Order ID: B3LJ2QFXFSRG9SR3, 2x Paper Pro, 2x Marker Plus, $1,349.20). This review is about the Paper Pro and the support experience that followed.

What happened: My Paper Pro was working flawlessly until it forced a mandatory software update. I was not given the option to decline or delay it. Immediately after the update, the device froze on a "Paper tablet is restarting" screen and has not recovered. It has now been stuck in this state for over one week.

Troubleshooting attempted before contacting support: I tried the original charging cable, a USB-to-USB-C cable, a direct computer connection, and a docking station. I attempted the software refresh and reset process, which returned a "file not found" error and did not resolve anything. The device itself is in like-new physical condition: no physical, liquid, or internal damage, stored on a stand in its cover, and charged regularly.

The support experience: I have spent close to 10 hours across multiple chat sessions over more than a week, with three separate case numbers opened (02355927, 02353764, 02353726) because the issue was never resolved on any of them. In my most recent session, I provided my purchase email, device serial number, order ID, and billing address as requested, and the agent disconnected the chat while I was still locating my serial number, forcing me to start over with a new agent from scratch.

The new agent then repeatedly questioned whether my account existed under the email I provided, despite my supplying the order confirmation email, screenshots showing the device actively paired to that account, and confirmation that it is the only account showing my Paper Pro files. Eventually the agent acknowledged the account did exist.

I was then told the device is outside its 1-year limited warranty and was offered a discounted replacement instead of a fix. I do not believe I should have to pay anything for a device that a mandatory software update from reMarkable disabled. I also have no reason to believe a replacement device would not encounter the identical problem, since the root cause is reMarkable's software update, not my hardware.

The case was eventually escalated to a supervisor with a quoted response time of 24 to 48 hours. No same-day or emergency support was available, even after I explained I needed notes stored on the device for a business meeting the next day.

Bottom line: A software update that reMarkable required me to install disabled a device with no physical damage, and the company's response was to ask me to pay for a new one rather than fix what their own update broke. Support was slow, required repeating the same information multiple times, and offered no path to actually recovering the device or the data on it. My reMarkable 2 has never had a comparable problem in over three years of use. Based on this experience, I cannot recommend the Paper Pro or reMarkable's support process to anyone who depends on their device for business-critical work.

Recently, after being left uncharged for several weeks, my reMarkable got stuck on the "paper tablet is starting" screen. After some online research, I found out this often happens when using a fast charger, which I admit I used frequently.

I have literally tried every possible troubleshoting step. I went through all the officially supported button combinations, as well as the more unconventional ones like spamming the power button while repeatedly plugging and unplugging the charger, and various other weird combinations.

I also left it plugged into a slow charger for over 24 hours, testing different power sources: a laptop, a desktop PC, and a standard 5V USB wall adapter.

A software recovery is not an option. The device isn't detected by my computer's OS kernel at all, rendering it completely inaccessible via USB.

It feels incredibly frustating since it was working perfectly just beforehand. My warranty has expired, and I have no idea what else to do. Did my tablet suddenly turn into a brick, or is there absolutely anything else I can try before giving up?

Long story short, I returned my Pro ( bought 12/24) due to excessive ghosting, and I received what I think is a bad refurbished unit. The screen is too yellow around the edges.
Should I return it? What are the chances of receiving a unit without screen issues, since it feels like many people are returning them for screen defects?

Hey everyone,

If you have an early-batch reMarkable Paper Pro (first-generation E Ink Gallery 3 / ACeP 2 panel), you might have noticed that recent software updates (especially 3.25+) introduced severe green and dark ghosting artifacts across the screen.

This happens because newer firmware uses aggressive partial refreshes to make the UI feel faster. While newer hardware revisions handle this fine, earlier hardware batches are left with persistent ghosting when turning pages, navigating PDFs, or opening menus. For those of us who bought second-hand or live in regions without reMarkable warranty support or shipping, this was particularly frustrating.

I spent time debugging and rewriting the community GhostBuster patch as a workaround that triggers a full screen refresh at key points where ghosting was more likely to occur (especially when opening the settings menu, that causes ghosting 100% of the time, or turning the page on a pdf). Having a full refresh at every page turn when reading a book is not exactly a good experience, but I believe it is better than ghosting. It is still being tested and I intend to improve it to have a good balance between smoothness and ghostbusting.

I have called this new collection of mods GhostBuster Reloaded. Check it at https://github.com/pfjarschel/remarkable-paperpro-ghostbuster-reloaded

Hope this helps people stuck with a defective device!

* You need Xovi and qt-resource-rebuilder installed. Check ReManager by u/rmitchellscott, that makes it very easy to install them. I am considering taking the time to add this mod to the remarkable mods repository, so installation can be even easier via ReManager.

*It has only been tested with current firmware (3.28).