remarkable-cli-tooling VS remarks

If you are looking for a separate handling of pulls and pushes, maybe you will have success with remarkable-cli-tooling, for example. For now I'm trying to nail the "sync-everything-in-one-folder" approach, but I am also considering to enable other approaches in the future.

I am using the Remarkable CLI tooling (https://github.com/cherti/remarkable-cli-tooling) on v.2 and it’s grand. It is all computer-side and just seems to push and pull from the RM’s storage.

I’ve had good luck with the tools in this GitHub repo: Remarkable CLI tooling. If you’ve got some simple CLI chops, resync.py does a great job.

I use https://github.com/cherti/remarkable-cli-tooling which can do that. If you like terminal tools, this might do the trick for you.

https://github.com/cherti/remarkable-cli-tooling can do that. However I don't know how they work under windows, the README points to the WSL, but they might also just work natively?

In case you use third party tools, resync.py from here has a backup command that will pull pdf copies of all documents on the remarkable via cable. Usability might be limited though, as it is a command line tool, so maybe not necessarily what you are looking for.

I'm using https://github.com/cherti/remarkable-cli-tooling which has a "backup" command in its resync.py that backups all documents as pdf. Runs for quite a bit, but all documents get pulled as rendered PDFs, so if you loose your device or it breaks you can open all documents with a standard reader and have access to your notes right away.

There is the option to use the built-in webinterface directly (which is what a lot of the tools out there are using internally), alternatively, there are a couple of CLI options, such as reHackable scripts, which are unfortunately discontinued, or reMarkable CLI tooling or a reMarkable FUSE filesystem. There are more listed on https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable , you might want to go through that list if you find something that suits your needs.

https://github.com/cherti/remarkable-cli-tooling with resync.py being inspired by repush.sh , which was unfortunately discontinued before fixing all its bugs.

resync.py can do that with the --overwrite_doc_only flag, but that requires that you access the system via SSH, that might or might not be your cup of tea.

In reMarkable's stock output, highlighted text is not textured with PDF annotations, and so its highlights are not readable by any PDF client. You would still need to use third-party software for that. The only two I know of are RCU and remarks.

Which firmware are you on? For 2.15 and below, there are a couple tools that will export real PDF highlight annotation. I use (and am the author of) RCU, which can export both PDF highlights and layers, but there is also remarks if you are comfortable with something more hacky.

But this is only half of the story, these files do not contain highlights or scribbles. That is where another open-source library comes into play, remarks see here.

I had the same problem and although there are tools like remarks the idea is to make it automatic and not waste any time fixing anything (or at least for me), for That's why I recommend you use annotator, the plugin is simple but it exports all metadata in plain text.

I use rsync, but not with a cron. Check out https://github.com/lucasrla/remarkable-utils for an easy implementation of rsync. If you want to mark up pdf files and then get your annotations, check out https://github.com/lucasrla/remarks

I use https://github.com/lucasrla/remarks, which OCRs your highlights to extract what exactly was highlighted, and also outputs screenshots of all pages on which I wrote notes.

This way I can go through my annotations sequentially, save highlights / their main ideas, and reformulate my notes into plaintext a bit more clearly.

With software that can insert/export PDF highlight annotations, like remarks or my own RCU, you may then use Zotero to extract these highlights. This used to be part of a plug-in called Zotfile, but IIRC this can now be done in Zotero directly.

On a side note, thank you for mentioning RMRL! I'd been using remarks, but it has a number of shortcomings, most of which are not present in RMRL.