Draw & Use Custom Templates for the reMarkable 2 (No tools, no tech skills, just a simple workflow!)

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👉 How to build lo-fi, hand-drawn templates for the reMarkable 2, plus a workflow for using them again and again. Doesn't use any 3rd-party tools or require you to muck about with SSH, filesystems, PNGs, PDFs, hex codes, or other complicated stuff (I've done all that and had my fill 🙄).
0:00 Intro
0:25 Why templates?
0:49 Make template
4:00 Use templates
5:31 Use again and again!
7:31 Improving templates
9:00 Why this way?

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@huntervkiller 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing this information! I'm having a problem though. The layer behavior described doesn't happen for me. Instead it will always remember which layer I was on when I exited the document. I tried to be thorough and watch the video twice to see if I was missing something. I tried this one 3 different version as well, with the last 2 being the latest release and latest beta. I even tried checking the settings to see if there was something specific to this. Did I just miss something easy? Or did they change this behavior?

@HiredThought 5 ай бұрын

I'm noticing this too. I think it was changed in the last few updates to the software. Now I guess we'll have to be more careful about the layer that's selected. Thanks for pointing this out!

@francinevega 2 ай бұрын

Check your settings, you may have it set to open the notebook to the last page viewed instead of first page. @@HiredThought

@FitblkmanMr Ай бұрын

You can via pdf

@younihersoul 2 ай бұрын

I’ve had my remarkable for two days. I have made “notebooks” simply by using Canva templates and uploading them as a PNG into a folder titled “Personal” for example. Then I renamed the the PNG “budget” I then open the PNG and duplicated it. Now I have a “notebook” for my budgeting. This method is working great and it gives me a very clean, neat and aesthetically pleasing “notebook” to work with. I can write or use the convert to text method because it is a PNG. Hope this helps

@HiredThought 2 ай бұрын

What an AWESOME idea!

@ushadevii7045 2 ай бұрын

@@HiredThought Hi there i tried this option of importing a png, but you can only upload png through the browser not any of the apps. Also the document is saved as a PDF not as a native notebook, you can add blank pages and use text convert method, but you cannot add templates of lines etc into the notebook, nor copy/move pages into other notebooks. If anyone figures out how to do that I am interested to know.

@HiredThought 2 ай бұрын

@@ushadevii7045 I want there to be a quick and easy fix like this so bad! 😢 Thanks for giving it a try!

@ScottGureck 10 күн бұрын

Useful tip that got me thinking... I bet I could do this with PDFs. I used Word to create a daily task and journal template that works for me, saved it as a PDF, then discovered I could do the same thing. The PDF template is called Background by default and my notes are Layer 1 by default. Same process only you are dealing with one less layer. I would not have thought of this without this video so thank you.

@laurentbesson737 17 күн бұрын

Great non-technical tip, thanks a lot !!!

@MateusStock 9 ай бұрын

You would think it loads up on the top-most layer... I never figured it was the first layer on the bottom. NOW my custom templates will work! You can also duplicate the pages with the clean notes for MANY pages, that way you always have a clean page going forward.

@HiredThought 9 ай бұрын

Yeah! That tripped me up at first. Glad this helped! Also that's a GREAT tip!

@linseyt7600 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely love this! This has been extremely helpful - and thank you so much for explaining the WHY not just the what - makes a world of difference!

@HiredThought Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, Linsey! I really appreciate you taking the time to share these kind words.

@yokusi 3 ай бұрын

I just got my reMarkable 2 the other day and trying to make my own templates. This is an awesome tip, easy to make and use. Thanks!

@jasonmclapp 4 ай бұрын

Love this method. Thanks for posting.

@xMrWinner 4 ай бұрын

Great video. Thanks for taking the time to explain this. Will be helpful for my workflow.

@DebDeppeler Жыл бұрын

nice demonstration. Layers are best and you hit all my fav highlights. I make my top layer a problem, then a layer for my solution, then a student layer. I hide my solution while having a student solve. When next student has questions about the same problem, my workflow is slightly different. I delete the student layer, and add a new student layer. The erase all on current layer works great, too.

@HiredThought Жыл бұрын

Layers are amazing! And I love your workflow for working with your students! 🙌

@carolinacastro350 10 ай бұрын

Great video. I watched a couple more videos where I had to do some extra stuff, but watching your video and reading the comments gave me some good ideas. Thanks!

@HiredThought 9 ай бұрын

That's great! I bet you'll come up with something awesome!

@tracy_dtc 3 ай бұрын

Excellent tip. Thanks😀

@tinahammer7870 2 ай бұрын

This is really fantastic- thank you! You helped me understand a lot of features in addition to how to make custom templates.

@HiredThought 2 ай бұрын

Yay! Glad it helped!

@chelseabullock4739 8 ай бұрын

This is so helpful. Thank you for breaking it down!

@HiredThought 8 ай бұрын

🥰Thanks for the kind words! You got it! 🙌

@harrietheal3850 2 ай бұрын

Thank you Ben, this was really helpful and clear, and a very pragmatic solution - much appreciated!

@HiredThought 2 ай бұрын

Aw thank you! Hope it helps!

@michaelh3090 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for the method and explaining the why of each part

@HiredThought 5 ай бұрын

I'm glad you found it useful!

@mikerudzinski8349 6 ай бұрын

Great idea! Thanks! I’m gravitating more and more to solutions that don’t require me to sit at the computer to create or to update. I haven’t thought of using layers, and thanks for the hint to use the top layer! You are awesome!

@HiredThought 5 ай бұрын

Glad you found it useful! You are awesome, too!

@lexuskrucke4571 8 ай бұрын

Thank you! This is a great way to quickly get to know and use the rM. You can also use this method it test run any custom templates before getting into the more complicated routes.

@HiredThought 7 ай бұрын

Great point!

@thebeckers 2 ай бұрын

That was super useful to see the ordering one the layers and the ability to delete legacy content to start a new page.

@HiredThought 2 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thanks for the feedback and kind words!

@S_e_a_n 8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for spending time explaining your process! This is great time and $ saver. Cheers!

@HiredThought 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words

@jodiparry6765 6 ай бұрын

Thank you, this is exactly what I was looking!

@HiredThought 5 ай бұрын

Fabulous!

@jennifermorales1303 7 ай бұрын

Thanks so much. This really helped and is so easy to use.

@HiredThought 5 ай бұрын

I'm glad!

@ChrisACiufo 11 ай бұрын

Great tips; easy to understand and duplicate. Thank you.

@HiredThought 11 ай бұрын

Awesome, glad to hear.

@donpettinger8079 10 ай бұрын

Great video. Love it!!

@HiredThought 10 ай бұрын

So glad to hear it!

@KevinMoran-ft1kz 3 ай бұрын

good video, well done

@dabonai 6 ай бұрын

Super cool

@ROSENKRIEGER 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing, that's a very cool workflow! With the just added function of "straight lines", which was not available at the time you made the video, it will become even more useful. Great stuff!👍

@folium1 Ай бұрын

Yes, this is very convenient.... for new users: draw a line and hold at the end... then the line will straighten out...and you can also fine tune the angle and length of the line at the same time, while moving the pencil after the line has strightened out. (do not lift the pencil until finished)

@nmdk-design 11 ай бұрын

Awesome video, thanks!

@HiredThought 10 ай бұрын

You are very kind!

@martienhoogebeen8434 5 ай бұрын

Very helpfull! I was looking for a solution to create simple but effective templates for everyday use and this just fits the bill! Simple and easy; in e few minutes up and running; thanks a lot!

@HiredThought 5 ай бұрын

glad it helped!

@laelis Жыл бұрын

Oh thanks so much! It was very clear!

@HiredThought Жыл бұрын

So glad! Thanks for taking the time to share your kind words. ☺️

@bigdaddy8567 3 ай бұрын

Great - thank you so much....

@HiredThought 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words, Big Daddy.

@chrisfrate 2 ай бұрын

Big help Ben! Thanks!

@HiredThought 2 ай бұрын

Glad it's useful!

@TheBubbuhGump 3 ай бұрын

Good job.

@gstrummer 10 ай бұрын

You're a great teacher.

@HiredThought 10 ай бұрын

You are extraordinarily kind! 🙏

@StormyJHall-gf9mi Ай бұрын

Thanks so much. Just got mine a week ago and that was such a big help😊

@kennylauer4368 Жыл бұрын

really nice. thank you.

@HiredThought Жыл бұрын

Great to hear! 🙌

@550ronald 11 ай бұрын

yeah gonna watch this again. good video

@HiredThought 11 ай бұрын

Glad it helped

@kristinamoses911 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

@HiredThought 9 ай бұрын

You got it! Glad it helped!

@sarahyates7385 6 ай бұрын

Super helpful.

@HiredThought 5 ай бұрын

Awesome!

@bbabookkeeping 10 ай бұрын

Brilliant!!!!

@HiredThought 10 ай бұрын

Lovely, thank you!

@justinlynch715 Жыл бұрын

Really good. I watched the more Techy solution videos but much prefer this. Thanks you 😀

@HiredThought 11 ай бұрын

Great! Glad it helped!

@CDash162 8 ай бұрын

Yeah love this. I’m going to do it this way. Thank you. Really don’t know why Remarkable won’t give us a shapes tool. The device would be perfect if they did.

@HiredThought 7 ай бұрын

That would be really cool if they did!

@THEJAFFACAKE1865 7 ай бұрын

they have just added a straight line tool! Not a full shapes tool, but helps me a lot.

@CDash162 7 ай бұрын

@@THEJAFFACAKE1865 really, I hadn’t noticed that. Thanks 👍

@mikerudzinski8349 6 ай бұрын

Use an old fashioned plastic shape template or a ruler on top of the screen and draw your shapes on a page. Then lasso select and cut and paste them where you need them. You might not want to do this every time, but it’s great for shapes on your drawn templates as shown in this video!

@thomasraven 11 ай бұрын

Nothing against your attempt tp solve this problem, but it's a problem that shouldn't exist. There's no excuse for Remarkable not offering the ability to import real custom templates. This is a deal breaker for me. If I wanted to scribble my own templates, I'd stick with my Rocketbook pages.

@HiredThought 11 ай бұрын

No doubt

@VictoriaMacklin 6 ай бұрын

You can import your own custom templates. This video isn’t doing that. It’s just copying pages. I’ve definitely seen another KZfaq video where the guy adds a template to the default ones provided by remarkable.

@telockett9850 5 ай бұрын

There are tools where you can import your own custom PNG templates, it unfortunately not yet supported by remarkable but the template is there. When you do a software update, you just have to add it back which takes less than 1-2 minutes, etc. It’s several tools that makes it easier than even he describes.

@jasonmcmaster4968 3 ай бұрын

Because Remarkable is remarkably bad at listening to customer feedback. I have reached out to them a few times regarding templates and how they could function better. For example, their Cornell template is ridiculously small and should be scaled so you have more writing space in the notes column and less space in the recall column. The notes column also needs a smaller rule in the lines with the addition of 5-6 more lines. Their response is that I’m just not using it right. I FULLY regret the money I spent on this thing. It’s absurd.

@rickszilagyi1822 5 ай бұрын

Thank you, very helpful! I have created a few templates in Excel that I use everyday. I am strongly considering the Remarkable 2, BUT I want to be able to use the templates I have altready created as they have created positive habits that I don't want to undo. I can remake them, using the process in your video. But, I'd rather use what I have already created in Excel. I realize the R2 will not import an Excel file. But... I could export my Excel file to a PDF of course. To try to give you a visual of one of them... in the left column is the time beginning with 7:00AM, and then each row advances by 10 minutes, so the second line is 7:10AM, the third 7:20AM, etc. I print out a sheet each day, and in the second column is where I hand-write what I am doing and for which client. If I PDF my Excel file, and import it into the R2, will I be able to save it as a new template, putting the outline I have described into the template layer, and then write on the R2 in the notes layer?

@HiredThought 5 ай бұрын

The PDF trick will work, but what I would explore is making multiple copies of your template within the same PDF, one per page. That way you just have to scroll to the next page to start your next instance of the template. If you only have 1 template in the PDF, you'll need to duplicate the PDF every time you want a new instance of the template. Sadly there isn't an easy way to turn a PDF into a ReMarkable template directly. It's something that bothers me, and I hope they make that easier in the future.

@kristinbryonhartman4323 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing. When / if you “save as text” does your template save the format as well? Save the columns?

@HiredThought 10 ай бұрын

I don't believe so? But I haven't used that feature. Give it a try and let us know!

@simonalampariello6465 4 ай бұрын

Hi Ben, thanks for sharing your knowledge. Could you please explain how to make a template that is adaptable to the content? I can make a template with your excellent instructions. The template has a few headings but the content I write below each heading varies in size each time. Can the template be made to account for the size of the content? Like in a Word document? Thank you.

@HiredThought 3 ай бұрын

I'm afraid I don't have the answer to this one. Though one thing you could try is editing the template layer directly whenever your content is about to go out-of-bounds. The selection tool could enable you to move the template elements (e.g., headings). It's not ideal or automatic, but it might help you in those moments.

@user-fl9bs3ln5i 10 ай бұрын

I'm an EA and trying to find the best way to set up a template for my boss, this is a great workaround. Is there a way to save these to a specific folder or make a shortcut for him to click before a meeting? Learning the remarkable as I go. So glad I found your video.

@HiredThought 10 ай бұрын

I think so! Here's a guide on organizing notebooks into folders: support.remarkable.com/s/article/Organizing-folders A guess: You might create a folder called "Templates". Inside that folder, you might have a notebook per template (for instance: "Meeting Notes", "Pro Con Lists", "2x2s", etc.). It's a little clunky but might do the trick!

@Eastgore7374 5 ай бұрын

Why is no-one using the straight line function on ReMarkable? After hand drawing a line - you just hold the tip on the page and the line snaps straight. You can make a perfect template this way

@HiredThought 5 ай бұрын

probably something to do with the feature only coming into existence just 2 weeks ago

@dragospahontu 4 ай бұрын

That feature is heavenly for someone like me who can't draw straight lines😅

@matthewdegiorgio4872 4 ай бұрын

Are you aware that by drawing a line and keeping the pencil on the screen the line will automatically straighten and you can then move it around. You can do it again and again and it would be very helpful in creating a neat template to use again and again.

@ibgeorgeb 7 ай бұрын

You can import your own custom templates using SuperNote.

@HiredThought 5 ай бұрын

That's cool!

@LifeCoach-ij6kf Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the useful content. Can you have a two page template and / or multiple different templates to choose from?

@HiredThought Жыл бұрын

Those are great questions! I suppose you could have two pages in a template. You would just alter my process above to select and duplicate both pages instead of only one. (And remembering to "erase all" on both pages as well.) Alternatively, you could just make one looooong single-page template by scrolling down on your first page and placing page-2 content on a lower part of the first page (this uses the new "continuous pages" feature support.remarkable.com/s/article/Navigating-our-new-pages-beta-3-0). To have multiple templates to choose from the easy way, I would probably create a folder for my templates and then make one notebook per template. To use a different template, you'd have to switch notebooks. That might get annoying, but it'd at least work cleanly. An alternative would be to put each of your templates all in a row at the beginning of your notebook. Then when when you're ready fill one out, you'd open the page select screen, scroll all the way to the top, select the template you want, and duplicate it. You'd probably also want to move it to the end of the notebook from there as well. (Or instead of scrolling to the beginning you could just scroll back until you find the last time you used the template you want.) Sorry this is so complicated! If I can clear anything up, just let me know!

@InsightTherapies Ай бұрын

can you convert your notes layer content to text still using this? Or, if my custom template layer is converted to text (assuming I can do that) can I still write then convert to text the notes layer?

@HiredThought Ай бұрын

I don't know if it's the most efficient way, but I looked at some documentation, and it looks like there's a way to do it with the selection tool: 1 Open the document with the handwritten notes you’d like to convert. 2 Tap the selection tool and select your handwritten notes with your Marker. 3 Tap the handwriting conversion button. 4 Place the text cursor by tapping the display with your Marker. 5 Tap the paste button to paste the converted text. You can edit this text with the on-screen keyboard, with Type Folio, or in the mobile and desktop apps with a Connect subscription. I think that should work? Worth a try!

@GeneTorres46 3 ай бұрын

One way is to create the initial template, then duplicate it before you write anything. Keep the first one without any notes and just duplicate that one each time without having to erase old notes first.

@suniljohn4817 10 ай бұрын

can i make a multi page template or form

@HiredThought 10 ай бұрын

Instead of doing multiple pages, I recommend extending your template downward on a single page. The scrolling is infinite! support.remarkable.com/s/article/How-to-use-continuous-pages

@samegalle1089 10 ай бұрын

Why not just make a document in Word or Excel. Export it to PDF, then import it to the tablet. Add handwritten annotations to the template form. Save. Win.

@HiredThought 10 ай бұрын

Hey that's a great idea! Just make sure to duplicate the template enough times within the same PDF, or I guess plan to make a copy of the PDF for each instance of the template. Wanna give it a shot and report back?

@mikerudzinski8349 6 ай бұрын

I’ve done both. You can move and copy Notebook pages as in this video anywhere. PDF pages can only be duplicated or moved within that PDF file. If you need to move the templates between files, the PDF method is very limiting. But if you want hyperlinks or don’t need to move templates between files, use PDFs and your pages can be pixel perfect with links between pages.

@Victoria_Marie 2 ай бұрын

I wish I could make my own templates woth a png

@HiredThought 2 ай бұрын

agreed!

@vjs8078 4 ай бұрын

why don't you just make a svg template and import as indicated in the remakable knowledge pages?

@HiredThought 4 ай бұрын

link?

@joshuakaiser9691 10 ай бұрын

This is a helpful workaround, but it's not a template strictly speaking. Wishing Remarkable would make creating actual templates easier so you don't have those extra couple of steps.

@HiredThought 10 ай бұрын

No doubt. Not my preference to do workarounds, but here we are.

@AndersVold 4 ай бұрын

Easier to duplicate the template BEFORE you fill out notes 😉

@Kizumma 4 ай бұрын

I think he did that to show us the ERASE ALL feature on the notes layer

@garlandshanklin3544 8 ай бұрын

Most confusing video, man!

@HiredThought 7 ай бұрын

I do what I can

@Kizumma 4 ай бұрын

Nah!!! It was very straightforward. 🙌🙏 I guess it depends on where one is at technically.

@MsCellobass 8 ай бұрын

Waste of time and video. I was expecting that whatever was drawn as a custom template would have come out with professional clean drawn lines that be like the default ones

@HiredThought 8 ай бұрын

I wish you much enjoyment learning how to be a better person

@karenkrohn8003 5 ай бұрын

@@HiredThought I'm definitely going to "borrow" that line the next time I venture onto Twitter.