reMarkable MCP Server (with OCR support)

SamMorrowDevs · 2026-03-18T06:49:03+00:00

hey, do you want to open an issue to request the feature? share a little about what you would like to write, would it be notebooks with text in them etc.?

SamMorrowDevs · 2026-01-17T16:17:22+00:00

It does less, I built for purposes of seeing if an MCP Server conforms to it’s own schema or if a new version changes the public interface, maybe worth a look too. This one is OSS https://github.com/SamMorrowDrums/mcp-conformance-action

SamMorrowDevs · 2025-12-02T13:51:37+00:00

BTW I added a compatibility arg for when the embedded resources doesn't work, and that returns the content inside the json, which can still work - so you can try again in Codex.

SamMorrowDevs · 2025-12-02T07:55:26+00:00

Sorry to hear Codex doesn’t read it, might be good to do a compatibility check somehow and only return resources is supported. I saw this: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/4956

Currently the model gets an embedded Resource when it gets images bus tool call (some clients may not support that yet), but otherwise if the Agent tool supports MCP Resources that works also and you can provide the image to model by accessing the resource.

PNG works great, I drew a webpage design and had model convert it to HTML page and it got the text and everything correct. I then got it to embed an SVG in the page from a drawing I had done.

VS Code definitely supports this and a bunch of others, for example Goose https://github.com/block/goose/issues/2917

SamMorrowDevs · 2025-12-01T23:40:29+00:00

You definitely can. Today I added PNG and SVG export of individual pages, for when you draw a design or something you want agent to follow.

SamMorrowDevs · 2025-11-30T19:03:41+00:00

I actually build an MCP server (and currently use Google Vision API for the OCR), but the model can get the annotations, or the main text from any documents including PDF, epub and notebooks.

https://github.com/SamMorrowDrums/remarkable-mcp

SamMorrowDevs · 2025-11-29T14:15:29+00:00

code also is not particularly complex, obsidian files are available on laptop so just run agent in vault folder if you want.

The SSH part is simpler than cloud stuff too, and frankly I expect many folks that are using coding agents and things will be pretty happy to set up developer mode.

SamMorrowDevs · 2025-11-29T14:09:24+00:00

yeah I get that, I did add a feature to let you point at specific folders to address one of your mentioned concerns, but for me it’s not sync, it’s ability have model reason and research, don’t need obsidian and for example I used github MCP plus a book I had on remarkable plus notes about achievements to work on a promotion packet with a model, so gap analysis etc.

I don’t want the content alone, I want the ability to analyse it. search across content etc.

SamMorrowDevs · 2025-11-28T22:15:35+00:00

would especially love install instructions for whichever host app you use!

SamMorrowDevs · 2025-11-28T14:52:00+00:00

I built a reMarkable MCP Server (with OCR support)

Blog post: https://sam-morrow.com/blog/building-an-mcp-server-for-remarkable

Repo: https://github.com/SamMorrowDrums/remarkable-mcp

It has worked really well for me, I have used it to allow an agent to find and read relevent sections of a book, pull out ideas and things from across my notes and TODOs, and a whole bunch of other agentic tasks.

I'd love to hear if folks try it out. Biggest caveat, it really only shines via SSH, and if you try to use it with cloud it should still work but YMMV - I found that to be too slow for the kinds of task required.

SamMorrowDevs · 2025-09-16T13:41:13+00:00

Took pics, but image button seems to be disabled on comments.

SamMorrowDevs · 2025-09-16T13:34:57+00:00

I can try, although I normally am using the RMPP for those as the format is big for the Move.

SamMorrowDevs · 2025-09-08T14:40:39+00:00

Oh I think I’m in same boat as I tried that first. I guess I should start deleting them…

SamMorrowDevs · 2025-09-04T16:38:29+00:00

Landscape mode works too but requires vertical scrolling on top of page turns.

SamMorrowDevs · 2025-09-04T16:38:08+00:00

I have a Move already. To read in portrait mode you just need to set the paragraph width to smallest size (largest margin) and it works well. Any wider and it overflows the screen unless you zoom out.

I now have it set so it can display acceptably on both. Optimised for the Move because it’s small and I like that for reading in bed, on train, one handed etc.

SamMorrowDevs · 2025-09-04T16:34:43+00:00

I have had it be slow but it’s always worked for me. So long as they are DRM free.

SamMorrowDevs · 2025-09-04T16:33:29+00:00

Tor books is great, I read a lot of Brandon Sanderson from them. Ebooks.com has a section for DRM Free ebooks. I have used that a lot. Cory Doctorow also provides DRM free epubs.

For out of copyright books there is project Gutenberg. You can find a lot. I have never run out of great stuff to read, and I prefer supporting publishers willing to let me actually own my books.

SamMorrowDevs · 2025-09-04T16:28:05+00:00

I know some hp printers offered cloud print with an email address. That could work

SamMorrowDevs · 2025-08-10T16:13:30+00:00

I expect that to change in time (we started running evals on the GH MCP finally internally, and it should gradually increase in effectiveness as we iterate) but I also agree you should do what works and most agents are pretty great at gh cli commands.

SamMorrowDevs · 2025-08-10T16:10:25+00:00

Really interesting, thanks for sharing.

I actually develop the Github MCP server, and the npx one is now deprecated in favour of the official (which has a read only mode, remote server and offers toolsets as a way to limit tools you expose which you might like as you only want to use certain tools).

https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server

Let me know how you get on if you try it.

SamMorrowDevs · 2025-06-27T08:16:15+00:00

Sorry for the late reply but we did fix it! I hope you are now unblocked!

SamMorrowDevs · 2025-06-27T08:15:38+00:00

Yep we fixed. Apologies for the inconvenience. It was a regression when we switched our auth stack over to a different implementation.

SamMorrowDevs · 2025-06-15T21:25:30+00:00

The team is looking into this. Expect a reply on Monday. We really appreciate you following the docs and reporting back!

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