My notes were scattered across my reMarkable, Apple Notes and Notion — so I built a Mac / local only app that pulls them into one place. Looking for a few alpha testers
I've had my reMarkable for a few years now and I genuinely love writing on it. But I noticed a pattern that was quietly driving me crazy: the tablet is where my best thinking/ideas happens, and also where it goes to die (and I've tried a lot of "journaling systems" - Reflective / Bullet Journaling etc.).
But that happens not because the reMarkable is bad, but because it's only ONE of the places my life/notes ends up. When my tablet isn't with me (the Paper Pro is just too big for everyday use), thoughts go into Apple Notes on my iPhone - or when I'm at work into Notion or Jira... so when I actually needed something ("where did I write that idea down? what did I decide about X?"), the answer was always "somewhere, in one of three places, good luck 😞"
I looked for something that could merge all of it and didn't find anything that (a) treated handwriting and different journaling systems as a first-class input and (b) didn't want to upload my private journals to someone's cloud. So I spent the last months building it myself. It's called Anthracite.
The short version: it's a completely free and notarized MacOS app. It syncs your reMarkable notebooks (you link it with the usual one-time code from my.remarkable.com / rmfakecloud support is on the roadmap), reads your Apple Notes directly off your Mac, pulls in Notion and Obsidian... and then compiles all of it into one markdown (.md files) wiki-like knowledge base and a task board.
What I'm most happy about is: the handwriting OCR runs locally on your Mac using local models (if you want to use payed one, like Google Vision or OpenAPI, you just add your API Key)..... but the main benefit is, it's free, works offline, and nobody's server ever sees your notes (and your bad handwriting 😂).
My favorite little moment of it working: I scribbled "(dot) call the insurance guy" in a journal page on the tablet, and it showed up on my task board next to a task from a typed Apple Note. That's the whole point, really!!!
It's invite-only right now. The site is anthracite.co and the code 34BQ-WAGN should get you in (first come, first served — I'll drop more in the comments if it runs out).
Happy to answer anything — how the OCR deals with diffrent journaling systems and different handwriting, how .rm files get rendered, why I made it local-only, whatever... :)
P.S. this is an early alpha. macOS 14+ on Apple Silicon only, because that's what the local OCR needs (4-6 GB RAM gets you there). You will maybe find rough edges - that's kind of the deal, and there's a feedback form and a small Discord where I actually read everything 👍.