A list of awesome RemNote tutorials, extensions, themes and educational resources.
Web | Desktop (Windows/Linux/Mac) | Android | iOS (WIP)
Places to interact with community members and developers.
- Discord - Quick help and study groups.
- Discourse Forum - Q&A database, Feature Requests, workflow sharing.
- Twitter - Daily tips and update notifications.
- Youtube - Tutorials and update demos.
- Github
- Issue Tracker - Report bugs.
- Frontend API - Develop plugins.
How to use RemNote?
Get started by going through the interactive tutorial and looking at RemNote's excellent builtin documentation or the official Youtube channel. Then move onto community tutorials.
- Builtin Documentation
- Official Tutorial Series
- Community video tutorials section of the documentation
Selection of Video Tutorials that cover a specific topic more in depth:
- How To Use RemNote: Practical Note-taking Advice & Flashcard Types by Red Gregory.
- How To Use RemNote Pt. 2: Templates & Daily Documents by Red Gregory.
- Academic Paper Reading Workflow - PDF Integration using external apps by Nabhan.
- Demonstrating my Academic Paper Reading Workflow (ft. RemNote PRO) - PDF Integration using the Pro version native PDF features by Nabhan.
Comprehensive curricula covering all features of RemNote.
Paid (๐ฐ) or free (๐).
๐ฐ RemNote โ Das beste Lerntool verstehen und effektiv nutzen by Erich Heyzel.
How to get data from other services into RemNote.
- Chrome Extension: RemNote Clipper - Save websites and take notes.
- Twitter: RemNoteBot - Send Twitter messages to RemNote.
- Telegram: RemNote-bot - Send notes to Daily Documents.
- IFTTT: Use IFTTT with RemNote to create notes and greater self knowledge - Youtube video about how to automatically add data using IFTTT hooks, e.g. from watched Youtube videos, Beeminder goal datapoints and played music on Spotify.
- Airr: How to setup the Airr + RemNote integration - Import transcribed highlights from podcasts.
- Zotero: CSL-Remnote - Paste literature references.
- Outdated: remnote-zotero-import
RemNote's appearance can be customized by pasting in and ticking css blocks on the โฎ Custom CSS page.
- ๐ RemNote Library. - A website to discover Custom CSS.
- Browneyedsoul's RemNote CSS Library - A Curated List of RemNote CSS Snippets for Better Note-taking and Spaced Repetition
- [Wiki] CSS snippets to make things more compact and information dense and/or less visually obtrusive - Forum wiki topic with snippets that match the goals of having as much usable information visible on the screen at the same time as possible and removing any information that is not needed or extraneous visual elements.
- Solarized Dark by arunnbabu81 (Forum Link, RemNote Article for import)
- RemNote Dark Theme by eustachio (Forum Link)
- tskn's Theme built by Eva Thomas
- Light Theme by eustachio
- Dracula theme by drstrangez0 (Forum Link)
- Dark Theme by JoshKoiro
- Light "Roam" Theme by JoshKoiro
Plugins extend the functionality of RemNote, featured plugins (โญ) can be installed directly from remnote.io/plugins.
- โญ Image Search - Search and insert images powered by Google Image Search.
- โญ Word Cloud - Visualize a document as a word cloud.
- โญ Word Counter - Count the number of words on the page.
- RemNote-Pomodoro - Pomodoro timer and activity logger.
- remnote-schedule - Visualize your daily schedule. Inspired by CrushEntropy.com.
- English Dictionary - Look up definition of words
- Note: As RemNote Plugins are just webpages, you can use any webservice which works well in an iframe.
- RemNote-Interactive-Code - Embed interactive code snippets.
- RemNote Image Editor - Draw on an image. Modified image is hosted on
imgur.com.
Things an extension developer might need.
- Reference in this repo - Undocumented links like an experimental trash to restore deleted rems and the list of Power-Up rems.
- Extensions, Plugins & Themes documenentation in RemNote's Tutorial section.
- remnote-inspect - Show datastructure of context, focused Rem and Document.
- RemNote flavored Markdown. - Description of the syntax to insert content by both pasting and API.
How to make the most out of RemNote?
- ๐บ RemNote Tour with Founder Martin Schneider - Interview with Martin Schneider by Robert Haisfield about the role of memory in knowledge management aka spaced repetition.
How to get knowledge into your head.
- ๐ Learning how to Learn by Barbara Oakley and Terrence Sejnowski. A MOOC of empirically proven learning techniques in the simplest possible terms.
- ๐ A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) accompanying book, can be read without taking the course or alongside it.
- ๐ Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning_ by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors offer concrete techniques for becoming more productive learners.
- ๐ Improving Studentsโ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques: Promising Directions From Cognitive and Educational Psychology by John Dunlosky, Katherine A. Rawson, Elizabeth J. Marsh, Mitchell J. Nathan, Daniel T. Willingham - Paper investigating the (in)effectiveness of learning techniques (elaborative interrogation, self-explanation, summarization, highlighting, keyword mnemonic, imagery use for text learning, rereading, practice testing, distributed practice, and interleaved practice).
- ๐ "What Works, What Doesn't" - The easy-to-read illustrated summary by the original authors in a popular science publication.
- ๐ Learning Library by Moritz Wallawitsch (RemNote Co-founder) - A library with links to resources about: Learning-Psychology, Note-Taking, Spaced Repetition, Memory, Visual Learning, Machine Learning, Attention, Creative thinking, Mental Models, Knowledge Representation, Reading, Connected Thought, Edtech, Learning-journey, and more.
How to not forget what you have learned.
Spaced-Repetition and Active Recall are the best techniques to get knowledge into long term memory. They are deeply integrated into RemNote.
- ๐ How to write good prompts: using spaced repetition to create understanding by Andy Matuschak - Best practices and exercises to check your understanding.
- ๐ How to Remember Everything Forever-ish by Nicky Case - Playful introduction to spaced repetition.
- ๐ Augmenting Long-term Memory by Michael Nielsen - Serious introduction to spaced repetition.
- ๐ Twenty rules of formulating knowledge by Piotr Wozniak - Practical advice on how to formulate flash cards.
How to get knowledge out of your head.
- ๐ How To Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking โ for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers by Sรถnke Ahrens - A description of the Zettelkasten method of note taking and its cognitive psychology underpinnings.
- ๐ Andyสผs working notes - Andy Matuschak's "Evergreen" Notes, a public example of implementing a notes-first knowledge base that includes the rationale behind it.
- ๐ A selection of notes that provide a direct comparison to Zettelkasten
- ๐บ A video of evergreen note creation, including fleeting and literature note stages
- ๐บ A video of reading a systematic review paper and generating literature notes, prompts (flashcards), evergreen notes and a follow-up reading list
- Examples of implementations in different software and discussion about implementing in RemNote
- ๐บ๐[Video Tour and Article] (by Joel Chan) Zettelkasten in Roam. Questions as zettels and literature notes inside zettelkasten
- ๐บ[Video Tour] (by Beau Haan) Zettelkasten in Roam. Using block references in bulk and keeping all fleeting notes
- ๐[Article] (by Eva Keiffenheim) Zettelkasten in Roam while sticking to manual numbering
- ๐[Article] (by Maarten van Doorn) Evergreen Zettelkasten in Roam with Universal Descriptors for related notes
Examples of other people's personal knowledge bases and related resources.
- RichardLitt/meta-knowledge - ๐ก A list of knowledge repositories
- KasperZutterman/Second-Brain - A curated list of awesome Public Zettelkastens ๐๏ธ / Second Brains ๐ง / Digital Gardens ๐ฑ.
- MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners - Resources, links, projects, and ideas for gardeners tending their digital notes on the public interwebs.
- brettkromkamp/awesome-knowledge-management - A curated list of amazingly awesome articles, people, applications, software libraries and projects related to the knowledge management space.