📓 OpenRemarkable

Free, self-hosted Remarkable tablet manager. Sync, search, and export your handwritten notes without a subscription.

Why?

Remarkable charges $3-8/month for cloud sync, handwriting recognition, and basic integrations. You already paid $299-449 for the hardware. OpenRemarkable gives you all of that for free.

Feature	Remarkable ($3-8/mo)	OpenRemarkable (Free)
Cloud sync	✅	✅
Handwriting OCR	✅ (paid)	✅ (free, local)
Full-text search	❌	✅
Self-hostable	❌	✅
REST API	❌	✅
Export (MD, PDF)	Limited	✅
Open source	❌	✅

Quick Start

# Clone and install
git clone https://github.com/your-org/open-remarkable.git
cd open-remarkable
bun install && cd web && bun install && cd ..

# Set your device token
export REMARKABLE_DEVICE_TOKEN="your-token-here"
# Get one at: https://my.remarkable.com/connect/desktop

# Run
bun run dev        # Backend on :3080
cd web && bun run dev  # Frontend on :5174

Docker

echo "REMARKABLE_DEVICE_TOKEN=your-token" > .env
docker compose up --build
# Open http://localhost:3080

Features

• Cloud Sync — Pull notebooks via Remarkable Cloud API
• Handwriting OCR — Tesseract-based recognition of .rm stroke files
• Full-text Search — Search across all recognized text
• PDF/EPUB Support — View uploaded documents with annotation overlays
• Export — Markdown, PDF, Obsidian-compatible formats
• REST API — Full programmatic access to your notes
• Dark Mode — Linear-inspired aesthetic

Tech Stack

• Backend: Bun + Hono + SQLite (Drizzle ORM)
• Frontend: React + Vite + Tailwind CSS
• OCR: Tesseract (optional) + .rm stroke parser

API

Endpoint	Method	Description
/api/documents	GET	List documents
/api/documents/:id	GET	Document detail with pages
/api/documents/:id/pages/:p/svg	GET	Rendered page SVG
/api/documents/:id/pdf	GET	Original PDF
/api/documents/:id/ocr	POST	Run OCR on document
/api/documents/:id/export/markdown	GET	Export as Markdown
/api/search?q=term	GET	Full-text search
/api/sync	POST	Trigger cloud sync
/api/stats	GET	Dashboard stats
/api/settings	GET/PUT	App settings

License

MIT