remarkable VS remy

There are a number of projects which reconstruct the folder structure from the metadata on the tablet. The actual information is stored as JSON in the .metadata files. The identifiers themselves are random UUIDs and uncorrelated to the actual titles/folders. Have a look at Remy. Or this bash script here (from the wiki) There was a program that allowed you to mount the tablet and created the illusion of folders but I never tried it and can't remember where I saw it (sorry).

# Creates folder structure as it is on the reMarkable 2 # from a local raw file backup. # # - thumbnails are copied and named in page order (1.jpg, 2.jpg etc.) # - Favorites are prefixed with "* " # - Files with sync status deleted are suffixed "(deleted)" # - Trashed files go to a _trash directory # - macOS only: notebook folders get a nice icon to separate them from folder folders # Inspired by Kim Covil # https://github.com/arnoxit/remarkable/blob/master/scripts/file-tree

What I do is I create backups with rsync (so "low-level" backups of the actual data the tablet is using to represent the notebooks, not just the rendered pdf). Then I use Remy to browse them if needed. (Disclaimer: I'm the developer of Remy) It currently lacks a way to export/import the notebooks in native formats (that would allow you to restore archived ones through the GUI) so if you need that you need to do it manually, which requires some basic knowledge of how the notebooks are internally stored.

reMy and RCU are the best alternative desktop clients. The former has a focus on notebooks, while the latter is focused on ease-of-use and does it all (templates/notebooks/wallpaper/and much more). Both use their own rendering engine for custom PDF export options. Neither installs anything to your tablet, so they usually work through software updates. (Disclaimer: I am the author of RCU).

You can also take backups using easy, convenient, community-written software, like RCU (which I'm the author of), reMy, reMarkable HyUtilities, rmExplorer, rmAPI, and many others found in the Awesome reMarkable list.

You could use something local, that uploads over SSH instead of the Web UI. The Web UI and rM Cloud choke on files over a few hundred MBs. reMy + 2.x firmware might be what you're looking for -- it has sync capability. (I assume OneDrive has something like a shared PC folder that you can use as the target directory.)

You could try reMy, which has its own renderer. There are more rendering programs in the Awesome reMarkable list, many of which will work with 2.15 and below--just avoid anything saying 'cloud' or 'web UI'.

Mathpix has this functionality and is cheap. I integrated it into Remy, see here for a demo (although it's a bit outdated, the app has now way more features). It's not a fully fledged integration, I was planning to use it for having a search index that could match on handwriting but had no time to implement it.

If you need support for the new v3 software update, not sure. Otherwise Remy can do that for you

I use my own Remy tool (in conjunction with rsync for backups). Unfortunately it is not working with v3 just yet but I plan to eventually add support for it, once the effort to reverse engineer the new file format settles.

You're not alone :-); we started discussing it here https://github.com/bordaigorl/remy/issues/49

But parsing and rendering are two different things. RCU used to use the remy parsing, while the developer put considererable effort into the rendering himself. Yet he wasn't satisfied (I was) and started to completely rebuild it. That's where he lost interest in RCU :-(