From the reMarkable page to the Obsidian vault.
How handwritten notes and PDF highlights get from the tablet into your vault: the workflows behind Tagged Sync, the integrations it grew, and tests of which model reads handwriting best. Written by the person who builds it; the quick answers are on the FAQ.
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Get your reMarkable highlights into Readwise
reMarkable has no Readwise integration of its own. Tagged Sync pushes your PDF and EPUB highlights and margin notes into Readwise on every sync.
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Make handwritten reMarkable PDFs searchable on a Mac
A reMarkable PDF is a drawing, so search finds nothing. On a Mac, Tagged Sync puts your transcript in the PDF for free, and Spotlight and Preview find it.
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Which cloud model reads handwriting best, and what a page costs
Gemini, Claude, GPT, Qwen, DeepSeek and a local model read 264 handwritten pages. Handwriting OCR error rate, cents per page, and which one to pick.
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Which local model reads handwriting best, and which Mac it needs
Gemma 4, Qwen3-VL, Qwen3.5, Qwen3.8 and MiniCPM-V read 264 handwritten pages on a Mac. Handwriting OCR error rate, speed, memory, and which one to run.
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Zotero and reMarkable: an integration that sends highlights back
Send a paper from Zotero to your reMarkable, mark it up, and get the highlights back as quotes in Obsidian and as real Zotero annotations. No script.
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Tagged Sync: Why I Built My Own reMarkable-to-Obsidian Plugin
Why I built my own reMarkable-to-Obsidian plugin instead of using what was there: one page out of a notebook, transcribed, in the folder I picked.