Flowstate + reMarkable
Turn handwritten notes from reMarkable into clean text files in Obsidian, Notion, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneNote.
Flowstate turns your handwriting into formatted text and saves it to the apps you already use.
Just email your notes from reMarkable – Flowstate will automatically transcribe them according to your instructions and deliver them to the location you choose.
Choose where to save your notes
Set this once — then every note you upload automatically gets saved to the same place.
Save each note as its own markdown file in your vault, or append notes to an existing file.
Email your notes
- Flowstate gives you a unique email address for each save location, so you can route different notes to different places. Journal pages get saved in one place, lecture notes to another.
- Open your reMarkable notebook and long-press the page you want to send. Select several pages if they belong together.
- Tap the three-dot menu, then "Send by email". Set the attachment as PDF. Enter your Flowstate email address.
- If you want, you can use the email body to give Flowstate optional instructions for how to read your notes. For example, tell Flowstate how to interpret your shorthand, or how to turn handwritten symbols into formatting, tags, and more.
- Send it off!
Flowstate takes it from there
After you send in your note, Flowstate transcribes it, adds a title, and automatically saves it to the location you chose in Obsidian using the Flowstate Obsidian plugin. It usually takes just a couple minutes.
A copy of the original handwriting or audio file is also saved to your attachment folder and embedded within each note.
A few tips
- To keep a multi-page note together, send all the pages in one email.
- Make sure you email the notes as PDFs.
- If a note doesn't show up, check that you sent it to the right project address.
Questions? Reach us any time at brothers@seekflowstate.com.
And a haiku, why not
Ink dries on gray glassthe morning's thoughts fly homewardclean text, by lunchtime