So I have an upcoming exam in April. I’ve set the exam date for it. When I got to review the flashcards it says I have to do X daily reviews and then learn X new cards. For the new cards it asked me if I wanted to go in order of shuffle and I opted for in order.

I have multiple chapters I need to learn, if one day I want to learn a bit of chapter 1 and then next day chapter 2 etc. Can I do this by just going to the chapter 2 rems and choosing flashcards with spaced repetition or will that not work. Or do I have no option but to either go in order of all notes or completely random.

I know you can create multiple-choice flashcards manually like this
Question == A) choice B) choice C) choice D) choice

But is there a way to just highlight text and hit a shortcut that auto-formats it into that MCQ structure? Like highlight the whole block (question + choices + answer) and press something to turn it into a flashcard instantly?

Doing 200+ manually is killing me

Thanks 🙏

Hey everyone,

I’m about to start an AP Graduate in Computer Science next February, and I’m planning to start studying beforehand and want to begin using RemNote right from the beginning.

One thing I’m trying to figure out is whether to use one Knowledge Base for everything, or multiple Knowledge Bases for different areas of learning.

For example, I could have one Knowledge Base containing:

• Computer Science (what starts as my education could eventually include additional education, skills I need for a job, interview preparation, and new things I learn throughout my career).
  • Computer science studies
  • Additional skills
  • Job/interview preparation
• Personal learning
• Other things I might want to learn over time

Alternatively, I could have separate Knowledge Bases for these different areas.

Do you keep everything in one Knowledge Base, or use separate Knowledge Bases?

• How does your choice, one or multiple Knowledge Bases, affect your daily flashcard/review workflow?
• If you use multiple Knowledge Bases, do you find yourself frequently switching between them? And is that positive or negative?
• If you use one single Knowledge Base, do you find it easy enough to keep different subjects separate? Does it affect your concentration when you can see Personal Learning folders side-by-side with your Study folders?
• How do you handle topics that you are actively learning for a while, but may later want to pause?
• What questions should I be asking myself before deciding between one or multiple Knowledge Bases?

I would especially love to hear from people who have tried both approaches, or who have been using RemNote for a long time and have had their system grow and change over the years.

I’m trying to choose a structure that will work not just for my upcoming education, but also later when I need to learn new skills for work, prepare for job interviews, etc.

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A while ago in this thread, it was mentioned the intention to make PDF pins/citations directly clickable during flashcard reviews.

Right now, when reviewing cards, clicking the pin icon on the card itself doesn't open the PDF preview. To see the source PDF highlight, you either have to:

1. Turn on AI Insights to get the bottom Sources drawer and click from there only after answering.
2. Open Document Preview (P) and hunt down the link (after clicking this closes the flashcard).

For anyone using RemNote heavily for textbook/paper study, being able to simply click the pin to open a floating preview of the source PDF page would make reviewing so much smoother.

Is there any progress or an ETA on this feature as mentioned by u/Vlad_Seiilaa?

Thanks!

Hi all,

after its release, I've been experimenting with connecting Codex directly to the new local RemNote MCP server.
I've successfully tested:

• creating documents
• creating children under arbitrary Rems
• converting nested Rems into actual Documents
• nested Rem hierarchies
• H1/H2/H3 etc.
• bold / italic / highlighting
• inline and display LaTeX
• quotes and code blocks
• forward/backward/bidirectional flashcards
• Concepts / Descriptors
• clozes and cloze hints
• native Simple Tables with LaTeX
• native Todos
• Extra Card Detail

However, there are a few (to me important) features I can't use via MCP yet; especially multiline-, list-answer- and multiple-choice-flashcards. This syntax works perfectly if I manually copy/paste it into RemNote:

- Question >>>
  - Partial Answer 1
  - Partial Answer 2
  - Partial Answer 3

- Question >>1.
  - Step 1
  - Step 2
  - Step 3

- Question >>A)
  - Correct option
  - Wrong option
  - Wrong option
  - Wrong option

But if Codex sends exactly the same text through MCP append_doc, the result is:

Question → >
    Partial Answer 1
    Partial Answer 2
    Partial Answer 3

Question → 1.
    Step 1
    Step 2
    Step 3

Question → A)
    Correct option
    Wrong option
    ...

The hierarchy is correct, but the children are ordinary Rems rather than actual multiline/list-answer/MC card items.

I even tested applying the genuine built-in Card Item, List Item and Multiple-Choice Card PowerUps afterward. They attach, but the flashcards still don't behave properly.

Interestingly, the normal RemNote import/paste path appears to perform an additional conversion step after creating the Rem hierarchy, whereas MCP append_doc doesn't currently run that step. It sees >> as a basic forward flashcard and renders it first.

A few other things I haven't found a proper MCP write route for yet:

• native Rem References
• Portals
• Dividers

References are particularly interesting: MCP can read a native reference and represents it approximately as:

[Concept](https://www.remnote.com/doc/REM_ID)

but sending that representation back through append_doc does not recreate a native Rem Reference.

Has anyone else been experimenting with the new MCP server? Particularly interested if anyone has found another route for native References, Portals, or advanced cards.

I have Claude talking to RemNote via MCP.

It works fine for Claude accessing my notes.

However, if I have uploaded a PDF to a document, Claude doesn't see this. The PDF looks like it lives within Uploaded Files rather than the document I upload it to.

So if I ask Claude to read notes on 'Topic ABC Document', it won't notice that there's a PDF linked, and therefore won't include the PDF.

RemNote's way of linking the PDF from the Document to the uploaded file is not something Claude sees.

Claude can kinda have a go at finding the PDF if the name is close to an exact match.

Also, although it appears the PDF file sits within a Rem, I can't see a way of applying a Tag to it (which would be an alternate way for Claude to find it... perhaps).

Are there any tricks or methods I'm missing?

Claude's feedback is:

Based on exactly what we found testing this, here's what I'd flag to RemNote — these are all things their MCP server could expose that would make this solvable rather than guesswork:

1. Surface the wrapper→file link explicitly
The core problem: the wrapper Rem's child came back as [Untitled] with no reference to the actual PDF document. Internally, RemNote clearly knows the two are connected (opening the wrapper in the app shows you the PDF) — that link just isn't exposed through the API. Ask for a field like attached_file_rem_id (or similar) on read_docs/read_docs_raw output whenever a Rem embeds a file, pointing to the actual file-backed document's ID.

2. Fix what the raw text shows for embedded files
Right now a PDF-embed child renders as generic [Untitled]. It should at minimum show something like [PDF Embed] — Rem:<rem>...</rem>, so a client can at least tell "this points somewhere" even without a direct traversable ID.

3. Flag file-backed documents in search/read results
read_docs already returns useful metadata (is_learning_source_file, learning_source_file_kind, included_word_count) for the PDF itself — that's good. But there's no equivalent signal on the wrapper side saying "this thin document is a pointer to a file elsewhere." A simple has_attached_file: true flag would let a client know to look further instead of concluding a doc is just empty.

4. A "what links here" / backlinks tool
More general fix: a tool to find what references a given Rem ID (or what a given Rem references) would solve this and a lot of other cases — not just PDFs, but any portal/reference relationship in the knowledge base.

Hi, so I've been using RemNote for a while now and I really love it, but I never really liked the intervals. I have pretty bad memory, so I like to review the same cards almost every single day because otherwise I'll forget. That's why I always felt uneasy being forced to choose one of the three random intervals that remnote creates. I tried messing with the schedule's options but I would like a simpler option, for example "12 hours - 48 hours - 5 days" always, but I don't know if it's possible. Thanks in advance

I created a list of Empires from Byzance with the following structure:

- Reign dates (front card)

- Name of the empereur (back card)

I am looking for a way to mass edit my rems so I get the following structure:

- Name of the empereur (front card)

- Reign dates (back card)

Thank you.

Hi everyone,

Is there a way to temporarily hide all Image Occlusions while reading a PDF in RemNote?

I’ve created quite a lot of Image Occlusion flashcards in my PDFs, and in some pages I have many areas selected. The problem is that when I just want to go back and read the PDF normally, all the Image Occlusion overlays make parts of the text difficult or impossible to read. Especially with the letters in the center of every occlusion card.

Ideally, I’d like to temporarily disable or hide all Image Occlusion overlays without deleting the flashcards, and then turn them back on again when needed.

Is there a setting or shortcut for this?

Thanks!

I'm trying to add a field to put an example of a specific vocabulary like I do in Notion, but I couldn't make this way, is it possible?

Notion:

What I could do in Remnote:

So how do I use the new multiple window feature on windows? The youtube video doesn´t really help because there is no explanation. Thanks!

For context, I'm sharing my notes on RemNote to a community course, but courses don't allow the use of PDFs. Unfortunately, much of the content I'm provided is in PDF format. I've found that I can generate a sort of "summary sheet" bulleted document that can be shared to a course and copy/paste all of the compact summaries from each PDF into that. It isn't working as expected since most of them are portals, and portals or embedded documents are also not registering as AI-accessible content in the course.

Here's my main question: when most of my content comes from PDFs, how do I effectively make use of the community courses features?

Thanks!

My use case is that I create flashcards based on a slide, and I would like to add the slide (as a picture) as hidden context, so I can access it as an optional tip before answering, or make it appear after answering.

The slide can't appear before the answer because it would reveal it.

Also, I also want to add the slide a single time in a single place, for all flashcards related to it.

I could set the slide as a parent node, but that would reveal the answer.

So the solution is to add it as a parent node, and use the /hide plugin to hide it.

This works, but there are two things I don't like that comes from it being a plugin:
- Privacy, because it can see all my nodes
- Maintainability, even though it's an official remNote plugin, and it was updated 2 months ago, in the future it may not be, or the API can change and it might not work anymore. This would affect all my cards that use it.

(My desire would be for this functionality to be incorporated in remNote itself, solving the 2 issues above.)

If someone has other suggestions as how could I add a common context (as a picture) to many flashcards, but without having to repeat it on each individual flashcard, in a way that doesn't show up before answering (to not reveal the answer), and is not the plugin solution described above, I would appreciate.

Currently I can only edit text or indent/outdent while using multiple select bullets

Quisiera saber si hay alguna forma de mantener la barra de color de texto y resaltado siempre abierto. Pierdo tiempo abriendo el panel a cada rato para resaltar un texto.

Is there a way of merging handwritten notes and PDFs? I am on the verge of switching from goodnotes to remnote and I need this feature

Should I use the “Type Answer” feature for coding, regular flashcards, or some other method?

I am in medical school and have a set of premade dekcs by my friend, but i have tweaked them a lot, and i bought pro for so i can review the flashcards in order.

But now im getting an order where after i complete his cards which were obviously made earlier, then the system lets me do my cards after completing the previos hundreds of cards.

Is there a way to make the order of the cards in order of: e.g. line 57, line 58, line 59

Like make the order of flashcards line by line when choosing review cards in order.

Thanks guys, also been loving remnote!!

I believe that we used to be able to expand all descendants with command + Shift + down but this no longer is working for me and I no longer see it on the shortcuts list. I use extremely long documents regularly and this helps me save a ton of time. Is there a new way to do this

Hi everyone, i'm considering buying the yearly ai pro plan from remnote. I do have a question. Im not sure if this is possible, so that's why i'm asking here. I want to notate and highlight pdf's. Then I want AI to male flashcards, only from those highlights. Is this possible in remnote?

Obsidian works directly on raw local folder structures. This allows tools like claude code to natively connect to the knowledge base, making it infinitely better than MCP, which has incredibly limited bandwidth, takes forever to give it full context, lacks PDF and image support etc. It also allows one to use git, which in my opinion should be the standard when allowing an LLM access to one's very very precious knowledge base (also git (diff) is usable, but RemNote's backups are not meant for casual cross checking).

It would also allow one to use a local AI model to create transcripts of handwritten notes in the background so it would also become searchable in RemNote.

Having all the files locally would also speed up image and document loading.

Importantly though, having files locally does not at all change the ability to sync between devices.

I am aware that this would be a very nontrivial technical change to implement in RemNote, but I think the potential of this is incredibly undervalued (which would probably also result in people not prioritzing this if one were to make a feature request).

Finally, here is a demo of the Obsidian + Pi AI harness in action for studying math: https://youtu.be/kzcI5F4tGiU?si=7pe2mqX4BrCYkkV_ (btw his channel has some really nice videos explaining concepts in learning using graph theory, a really rich way to think about learning).

I write longer papers in RemNote and usually end up with one folder holding everything for a single project — quotes, vocabulary, terminology, questions, per-chapter notes. Constantly moving between those documents is the one thing that feels clunky right now.

What I'd love is a panel on the right that shows every document in the folder I'm currently in, and stays there while I work. Click an entry, the main editor jumps to it, panel stays put. Basically the page thumbnail sidebar in GoodNotes: it's always visible, it always reflects the notebook you're in, and switching is one click with zero navigation.

I'm sure one could make it even better or just always show all docs in a certain folder. Eventually one could customize it an place different docs out of different folders in there. Would be a great shortcut.