How the connection works
Sixty seconds on what you're setting up
Notion AI can call outside tools over MCP, the protocol behind “connections”. remarkdown publishes one for your tablet. Once you add it, Notion AI can list your documents, push a page to the tablet, and read a notebook back, using a device token your tablet issued to remarkdown. Your tablet picks up changes the next time it syncs.
Three things follow from that:
- Nothing syncs automatically. Every move happens because you asked Notion AI for it. Good when the page is a draft you're marking up. Not what you want if you're after a live mirror.
- The tablet has to sync. A notebook Notion AI pushes reaches the reMarkable cloud immediately and appears on the tablet the next time it connects to Wi-Fi. Usually seconds.
- Notion sees one folder on the tablet, not the whole thing. You choose that connected folder on your remarkdown dashboard. Pushes land in it, and reading back only works inside it.
Step 3
Send your first page
Open any Notion page, open Notion AI, and ask:
- “Send this page to my reMarkable.”
Notion AI hands the page to remarkdown, which converts it and uploads it. It lands in your connected folder as a real reMarkable notebook, not a flat PDF, so you can write between the lines and file it like anything else on the tablet.
Two more that people use every day:
- “Turn this meeting agenda into a one-page checklist and send it to my tablet.”
- “What's on my reMarkable? List the documents in my connected folder.”
If it isn't on the tablet yet, the tablet hasn't synced. Put it on Wi-Fi and give it a moment.
The other direction
Your handwriting, back into Notion
Your first few pushes are a trial, so you can see it on your own tablet. After that remarkdown is Pro at $9/month: unlimited pushes, plus Notion AI reading your notebooks back with Document Reading turned on.
Once that's on, the notebook you marked up is just another document Notion AI can open:
- “Read my handwritten edits on the 'Q4 planning' notebook and apply them to this page.”
- “What did I write in the margins of yesterday's brief? Add the action items here.”
Handwritten pages reach Notion AI as page images it reads directly. If you want the ink searchable by text later, transcription is a separate step that runs on credits and never alters the original ink.
Notion AI writes into your page with the permissions you already have in Notion. remarkdown never reads your Notion workspace; it only ever sees what Notion AI sends to the tablet.
When it doesn't work
The four things that actually go wrong
Notion AI didn't use remarkdown
Check Settings, Connections, Installed. remarkdown should be listed as connected. If it offers Connect again, the authorization lapsed; click it and sign in. And sometimes the AI just doesn't reach for a tool on its own. Name it: “use remarkdown to send this page.”
The page arrived, but half of it is missing
Databases, embeds, and toggles don't have a paper equivalent. What crosses over is what reads as text: headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, checkboxes. Ask Notion AI to expand a database into a list first, or to send only one section.
The notebook never showed up on the tablet
Almost always the tablet hasn't synced. Put it on Wi-Fi and wait. Then look inside your connected folder, not the top level. If Notion AI reported an error rather than a success, the push didn't happen; your remarkdown dashboard's activity log will say so.
Notion AI can't read the notebook back
Reading needs Pro with Document Reading switched on, and the document has to sit inside your connected folder, subfolders included. If the notebook is elsewhere, move it in, or change the connected folder on your dashboard.
Still stuck? support@remarkdown.org. We answer.
What we can see
Privacy, briefly
For every paired account we store your email, an encrypted device token, an audit log of tool calls (the action and the document title, never the contents), and an index of your document and folder names. Note contents are stored only on Pro with Document Reading enabled, only for your connected folder, and that copy goes away when you turn reading off. We never see your Notion workspace or your reMarkable password. No ads, nothing sold. You pay for Pro, that's the business.
