A list of awesome RemNote tutorials, extensions, themes and educational resources.

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Community

Places to interact with community members and developers.

• If you have an issue while using RemNote, feel free to Contact Support from the lower right question mark menu. If you're up to it, fill out a full bug report using Report Bugs from the same lower right question mark menu to allow the team to easily track the bug and request more information if needed (no private data is gathered without your knowledge and consent). If your issue prevents you from accessing the app, email support at [email protected]
• Feature Requests are on the Feature Requests board of the Feedback portal. Check whether a similar feature has already been requested by searching and vote on your favourites! Track the development progress on the Public Roadmap.
• Feedback on existing features may be submitted using the On-demand feedback board of the Feedback portal
• Extension developers may gather inspiration and discuss RemNote's technical internals with fellow engineers in the Extension Development forum category and/or extension-development discord channel
• All other discussion, including learning the app, workflow sharing (field-specific or general), and off-topic resides on the Forum and on the Discord server
• Follow the official twitter account for company news

Tutorials

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.

Courses

Comprehensive curricula covering all features of RemNote.

Paid (💰) or free (🎓).

• 💰 RemNote – Das beste Lerntool verstehen und effektiv nutzen by Erich Heyzel.

Integrations

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

Extensions

Custom CSS

RemNote's appearance can be customized by pasting in CSS code blocks on the ⮉ Custom CSS page.

• Official Custom CSS documentation

Below are community-maintained repositories of CSS snippets. Make sure to read through the code yourself before installing to be aware of any customiseable values and/or avoid duplicates.

• 📜 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.
• CSS Snippets for RemNote by Anisha - Cosmetic changes such as adding/changing colors or dimming some elements.

Themes

The list of approved themes is in Settings - Theme Explorer.

• Official Theme Template documentation

Plugins

Plugins extend the functionality of RemNote and may be installed from Settings - Plugin Explorer.

• Official Plugin documentation

Development resources

Other 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.
• 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.

Education Materials

How to make the most out of RemNote?

• 📺 RemNote Tour with Founder Martin Schneider - Interview with Martin Schneider by Robert Haisfield about the role of memory in knowledge management aka spaced repetition.

Learning

How to get knowledge into your head.

• 🎓 Learning how to Learn by Barbara Oakley and Terrence Sejnowski. A MOOC of empirically proven learning techniques in the simplest possible terms.
  • 📕 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.
• 📕 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.
• 📄 Improving Students’ 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).
  • 📝 "What Works, What Doesn't" - The easy-to-read illustrated summary by the original authors in a popular science publication.
• 📚 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.

Spaced Repetition

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.

• 📝 How to write good prompts: using spaced repetition to create understanding by Andy Matuschak - Best practices and exercises to check your understanding.
• 📝 How to Remember Everything Forever-ish by Nicky Case - Playful introduction to spaced repetition.
• 📝 Augmenting Long-term Memory by Michael Nielsen - Serious introduction to spaced repetition.
• 📝 Twenty rules of formulating knowledge by Piotr Wozniak - Practical advice on how to formulate flash cards.

Note-taking

How to get knowledge out of your head.

• 📕 How To Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers by Sönke Ahrens - A description of the Zettelkasten method of note taking and its cognitive psychology underpinnings.
  • 📺 Video of a presentation of key ideas in the book
  • 📝 PDF of slides that provide a visual comparison with other note-taking methods
• 📝 Andyʼs working notes - Andy Matuschak's "Evergreen" Notes, a public example of implementing a notes-first knowledge base that includes the rationale behind it.
  • 📝 A selection of notes that provide a direct comparison to Zettelkasten
  • 📺 A video of evergreen note creation, including fleeting and literature note stages
  • 📺 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
  • 📺📝[Video Tour and Article] (by Joel Chan) Zettelkasten in Roam. Questions as zettels and literature notes inside zettelkasten
  • 📺[Video Tour] (by Beau Haan) Zettelkasten in Roam. Using block references in bulk and keeping all fleeting notes
  • 📝[Article] (by Eva Keiffenheim) Zettelkasten in Roam while sticking to manual numbering
  • 📝[Article] (by Maarten van Doorn) Evergreen Zettelkasten in Roam with Universal Descriptors for related notes

Knowledge Bases

Examples of other people's personal knowledge bases and related resources.

• RichardLitt/meta-knowledge - 💡 A list of knowledge repositories
• KasperZutterman/Second-Brain - A curated list of awesome Public Zettelkastens 🗄️ / Second Brains 🧠 / Digital Gardens 🌱.
• 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.