We built an app that turns reMarkable notes into text in Obsidian/Notion. Would love your honest feedback!
Hey friends! My name’s Rob, and my friend Raj and I have spent the past few months building Flowstate, which turns reMarkable notebooks into clean, transcribed text and sends it off to your favorite note apps.
We're both Obsidian nerds who love writing by hand, but all the workflows for transcribing from physical notebooks or e-ink tablets and getting the output into your vault are… not great. Lots of copy/pasting, juggling API keys, janky setups that break easily, etc.
So Raj, who used to work at Reddit as an engineer, built a simple app to transcribe handwriting and sync it automatically. And then, because he's kind of a maniac, he kept adding features and integrations. I've been testing it with a reMarkable Paper Pro the last few weeks, and happy to report that it works beautifully with Obsidian and Notion. Just requires you to send a notebook/page to a unique Flowstate email address.
Anyhow, we just launched Flowstate after testing it with a few friends and squashing some bugs. Would love any feedback or feature requests y'all have. How can we make this even more useful for your specific workflows?
There are definitely some other great options if you want PDFs of your handwriting synced to Obsidian (shout out to Scrybble, which is awesome and syncs via the reMarkable API in cool ways that we don't.) But where Flowstate shines is turning handwriting into searchable, formatted text that you can continue working on in Obsidian, Notion, or other apps.
It's also got a ton of tools for creating custom workflows. So with your daily journal, you can format it one way and send it to your personal Obsidian vault, and with the meeting notes you take at work, you can send those into your company's Notion workspace, or a Google doc, or (if you're a masochist) OneNote. Plus we're adding new integrations regularly, so if you need something specific, let us know.
This is a paid app, but the first 50 pages of transcription are free. So test it out as long as you want without any pressure. But transcription costs us real money per page, and we'd rather offer a useful product at a fair price than run ads or raise money or whatever. Also, we've got the option to top-up credits, so you're never forced into a subscription.
We do use AI to transcribe and format, but we make sure the output is never altered in any way that you didn't ask for. The robot just follows your instructions and files things where you can find them again.
So yeah, that's Flowstate. Both Raj and I have been using it every day for months, are super proud of it, and we hope you dig it too.
If you wanna check it out, our website is seekflowstate.com
You can also find the app on the iOS app store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flowstate-notes/id6758569058
And here it is on the Google Play store for all the Android homies: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flowstate.app
P.S. As you can tell from the photo, I do NOT have particularly good handwriting, but Flowstate still managed to transcribe it surprisingly well!
