Has anyone figured out a way to integrate DEVONthink and the Remarkable Paper Pro? I just want to store my PDFs in DEVONthink, read and annotate them on the RMPP, then sync those changes back DEVONthink.
This is actually the first time this device has been mentioned here. Does it support cloud-based files, e.g. via Dropbox, OneDrive or Google Drive?
It’s a lovely device and one of the very few e-ink devices that utilizes hardware-level encryption, which is important to me.
It kind of supports cloud-based files. There are integrations for Google Drive, Dropbox, and One Drive, but it’s not a real sync. You can browse the remote storage from the device and import files to the device. When you export files back to remote storage, they are exported as a copy, rather than syncing, and the annotations in PDFs are not editable.
Remarkable also has desktop, mobile, and web interfaces for easily sending/retrieving files to/from the device, but again PDF annotations are no longer editable after export. The desktop app for macOS does keep all the synced files in a container folder in the file system, but the original PDFs are stored unaltered with three additional files that presumably include the edits/annotations.
There is a third-party utility called Remarkable Connection Utility (RCU) that allows for exporting PDFs with editable annotations, but it is unsupported and requires putting the device in developer mode.
Deep integration into the DEVONthink interface would be magical. I imagine a button or menu item that would replicate files to the RMPP and changes would sync automatically—though it seems this would require a great deal of collaboration between DEVONtech and reMarkable.
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See this thread. You might also find some of the Boox threads here useful; here’s a recent one on a similar use case to what you’re aiming to do on reMarkableOS.
Same problem with Amazon Scribe. Any annotation is flattened into the PDF and even worse, all becomes black once exported. My Scribe is gathering dust in a drawer for that exact reason.
And my experience with Boox sync hasn’t been good as well. They save de annotation in standard PDF format (except bookmarks), but the sync is not much reliable.
I submitted a feature request to reMarkable. We’ll see if anything comes of it. Seems like they have a long way to go before this could be a reality—starting with exporting editable PDF annotations.