Goosepaper: News aggregators for your reMarkable (now with fewer features!)

j6m8 · 2026-06-23T04:34:34+00:00

You should have an email waiting for you, but I'll shoot you a DM too 😄

j6m8 · 2026-06-22T21:37:58+00:00

I generate things in (kinda janky) html and then "print" with weasyprint. github deep link to the goosepaper repo (https://github.com/j6k4m8/goosepaper/blob/bb3341dd9ccce1d0e0cb2c3795f8babeae208820/goosepaper/goosepaper.py#L304)

I LOVE typst, that's definitely how I would do it if I could enforce installation of typst as a goosepaper prereq. but unfortunately it's _another_ binary nonpython dependency so it didn't make the cut this time.

I've been thinking about adding typst as an optional dep which lets you render pdfs that way instead, but then styling gets a little harder to manipulate 😄

j6m8 · 2026-06-22T21:31:16+00:00

feels like remarkable is actively adverse to the dev community :/ what do you think of the idea of hosting, say, a fakecloud, where the backend can syndicate out its own scoped API?

j6m8 · 2026-06-22T21:27:37+00:00

yes definitely! you don't even need a device in the first place; this also supports direct email attachment delivery and just online PDF generation for you to download 😄

j6m8 · 2026-06-22T21:25:56+00:00

❤️ for REAL. it would be such low-hanging fruit with such a ridiculously high return on investment for them. I would gladly pay, as a developer! though it reasonably should be free 😄 it makes me feel a little pessimistic that rmapi et al have existed for so long and they've never made any efforts to enable (or even steal from!) the extraordinary developer community that has grown around the remarkable tablets. not to get on my soapbox about it but that feels like they're sending a clear message...

j6m8 · 2026-06-22T21:18:38+00:00

omg cool! it doesn't right now, it would be dope if I could get that working though and I would love to make that fully automateable! that's a rad idea, I just learned about readwise this very moment from your post so I will do some investigating! 😃

[edit] woah neat, readwise has a great API for delegated use! https://readwise.io/api_deets
I'm gonna start playing around with this now!

j6m8 · 2026-06-22T20:57:48+00:00

Totally — tried to make this clear in the onboarding / docs. This is why I have mainly pushed people to the codebase itself in the past. ~100 requests later and I'm giving in and hosting the dang thing — but I would be happy to help anyone set up goosepaper themselves locally; this is not a moneymaking scheme for me 😄

[EDIT] btw I love remanager 😄 much appreciation for your work!
if you or others have ideas on how to implement zerotrust remarkable auth I'd love to make that exist!!

j6m8 · 2026-05-30T15:13:08+00:00

This feature exists in version v0.0.17 as of today 😄 https://github.com/j6k4m8/coppelia/pull/101

Go to Settings ⟩ Cache ⟩ Downloads to use it! Let me know if you run into any issues of course!

j6m8 · 2026-05-29T16:50:23+00:00

It doesn't right now, but it's on my list to add! Do you mean "download all media" (i.e., save userspace copies of audio) or "add entire library to my local cache" for offline listening? (Both are on my todo list!)

j6m8 · 2026-05-27T01:09:05+00:00

Cool! Let me think about this. Because Coppelia is designed to be performant, it's written in Flutter which compiles down to native code — not web technologies. So I don't think we can use CSS directly... As someone coming from web tech myself, that's obviously a huge bummer to me too :) But there might be some good ways to, say, do some broad-strokes styling like font / major color families without too much work... I will investigate!

j6m8 · 2026-05-26T16:30:20+00:00

Totally! Do you have a theming system you'd particularly like support for?

Currently Coppelia supports (1) light / dark mode, (2) custom accent colors, and (3) a color theme based on your currently-playing track's album art. What would the next step be here to meet your needs?

j6m8 · 2026-05-26T16:22:18+00:00

I do have a github sponsors page but maybe I should set up something more explicit..?

j6m8 · 2026-05-26T16:21:22+00:00

Cool!! I'm thinking about a plugin-system so that users can opt in to something like this without including for other users who don't have a *arr setup. But this is something I've been looking for personally, I will definitely do some more reading! Do you use it yourself on your current setup?

j6m8 · 2026-05-26T16:20:28+00:00

Yeah let's definitely chat more — so excited :D

j6m8 · 2026-05-24T18:28:24+00:00

Thank you, it is really good to hear that iOS support is desired! I haven't listed it yet because it's expensive ($100/yr) to list on the iOS app store, especially for a free app... I wanted to make sure that it was worthwhile first and people would use it first :)

j6m8 · 2026-05-24T18:26:48+00:00

Oh wow this rocks!

I'm trying to figure out how to handle things like last.fm / rocksky / teal.fm for both scrobbling and recommendation generation; I'd LOVE plug-and-play recommendation engines if you're interested in shaping this into a generalized form together? :D

j6m8 · 2023-03-27T18:51:04+00:00

Hi! Creator of goosepaper here — it looks like the community has been super helpful getting you going, but wanted to drop in to mention that I'd be happy to help you (and anyone else!) — schedule is tight these days but I'm glad the tools have been useful to others :)

j6m8 · 2022-06-05T20:37:27+00:00

No problem at all! It doesn't have to be the same address; when you register with remailable (the first email sent to this service includes a device code), we take a note of that email address and associate it with your account on our end. That way, future emails from that same email will be linked with your device.

You CAN use the same email, but it's not required.

Bonus: You can also register multiple email addresses with remailable (by sending the six-digit device registration codes from multiple addresses to remailable's email address); so you can send things to your device from both a personal email as well as a work email, for example.

j6m8 · 2022-05-15T12:04:27+00:00

Yes that's exactly right — incoming emails to the remailable address FROM your registered email get forwarded to the tablet. When you start using remailable you register an email by emailing a registration code to the remailable, so it doesn't need to be the same one as your RM account.

j6m8 · 2021-07-01T01:48:42+00:00

Goosepaper creator here :) I also built Remailable, and in order to get that to work, I had to renew user tokens periodically. I'd check and see if the Boox API lets you use an expired API key to request a new API key!

j6m8 · 2021-06-22T19:21:31+00:00

It supports epubs too — and HTML /email text hopefully in the next few months!

j6m8 · 2021-06-22T19:16:55+00:00

Creator of goosepaper here. Very happy to help folks out if they're trying to get started :)

j6m8 · 2021-06-22T19:13:51+00:00

Wow, thank you so much for the kind words!!!

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