m-gris / awesome-remnote

A curated list of RemNote plugins, themes, tutorials and other resources.

A list of awesome RemNote plugins, themes, tutorials and other resources.

Web | Desktop (Windows/Linux/Mac) | Android | iOS (WIP)

• Awesome Remnote
  • Community
  • Integrations
  • Extensions
    • Plugins
    • Themes
    • Custom CSS
    • Development
  • Tutorials
    • Courses
• Education Materials
  • Learning
    • Spaced Repetition
  • Note-taking
• Knowledge Bases

Awesome Remnote

Community

Places to interact with community members and developers.

• Github
  • Issue Tracker - Report bugs
  • Frontend API - Develop plugins
• Twitter - Daily tips and update notifications
• Youtube - Tutorials and update demos
• Discord - Discussions and quick help
• Discourse Forum - Q/A database and Feature Requests

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 highlights from podcast.
• Zotero: remnote-zotero-import - Paste literature references.

• ⭐ Image Search - Search and insert images powered by Google Image Search.
• ⭐ RemNote Graph - Graph Visualization for you knowledge base. Implementation currently not published on its Github.
• ⭐ Word Cloud - Visualize a document as a word cloud.
• ⭐ 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.

Custom CSS

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

• 📜 RemNote Library. - A website to discover and share Custom CSS. Installing CSS Snippets is a just copy&paste.

Themes

• tskn's Theme built by Eva Thomas
• Light Theme by eustachio
• Dracula theme by drstrangez0
• Dark Theme by JoshKoiro
• Light "Roam" Theme by JoshKoiro
• WIP: Solarized Dark by arunnbabu81

Development

Things a plugin 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.

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 by Nabhan

Courses

Comprehensive curricula covering all features of RemNote.

Paid (💰) or free (🎓).

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

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).
  • The easy-to-read summary (popular science publication) "What Works, What Doesn't" can be found here.
• 📚 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 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

Knowledge Bases

Examples of other knowledge bases and how to build them.

• 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.