E-Ink notes in Obsidian / Notion?

I commonly get asked how to get your handwritten notes from your Supernote, Boox and reMarkable devices into your Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) system. In this video, we will tackle how and why you might want to do this.

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00:00 - Intro
00:28 - Why?
01:27 - Supernote
05:01 - Boox
07:40 - reMarkable
10:45 - Conclusion
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Music by KaizanBlu

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[BrandonKBoswell]

Please share your thoughts on the video and help me grow the channel by liking and subscribing. Thank you for your help and support!

[nonhodie]

this question has been what's been stopping me from buying an e-ink device... I've used obsidian for about 1 year and I can't do without it. PERFECT video, thank you so much!

[Szczesliwi_Razem]

Thanks for that. In terms of remarkable - and exporting text instead of handwriting, what i found useful is pasting it into chatgpt and asking it to correct punctuation, pronounciation and divide it in paragraphs. It works pretty well.

[BrandonPhilips]

I started building a Supernote Obsidian plugin that parses note files directly and generates markdown and PNG files all within Obsidian. I hope it might make your workflow a bit easier to deal with.

[stevemcclure]

Thanks again Brandon for helping me to frame my thoughts and direction in choosing not only digital ink products but more workflow products too!

[josephklapatch]

Another way to move notes from a Supernote into Notion....I use the QR Code Export feature, text it with my iPhone to my Mac and drag and drop the image into Notion. Works super quick.

[elisebright]

Not a question but more of a comment; I'm glad you're still making videos. I'm sure they're really niche but a lot of your older videos on productivity tools on Mac has helped me lots.

[ErichOConnor-bg]

Thanks! This answered a lot of questions I had about the remarkable 2 and the pkm workflow and if/when I wanted to invest in one. I also didn't know there's an email function. It's nice to see it in action. I use the Google suite as my system

[luisfilipelopes]

Have you tried converting text in boox with circled info to cut and paste, then ai then export directly? But instead of doing it to full note, do it has you go by your business and integrate directly to your phone or pc? This works 👍

[ichmoimeyo]

Thanks for the video; after you've exported an image of your handwriting from whatever e-ink device you are using may I suggest 1)opening Google Keep 2) click on img icon "new note from image" 3) click on ... hamburger menu 4) click on "Grab image text" DONE - I find the OCR handwriting to be very good, even multilingual. Now you can copy & paste or share into Obsidian in your favorite way.

[m.f.]

If you’re sync’ing obsidian, you could save the text directly to your cloud-based vault, and it’ll be there when you open obsidian. If you pipe it into GPT and ask it to structure the text, it’ll do a pretty good job of it. Not rephrase it or revise it, just structure it. You then just need to go through it and revise it. Saves you the time of going through one long block of unstructured text.

[ToddBryantsr]

I use the Rocketbook and the workflow is so much easier. I send my notes to my OneDrive and email to Readwise and it just works. Both make their way to Obsidian and I use Omnisearch to find files.

[theol]

Thanks for the video! Looks like all you can get is either pure images or pure text files. What I'd really like to see from the industry is a possibility to cpnvert the notes into *searchable* PDFs, with the (OCR'd) text behind the image like a regular PDF created fully digitally.

[AlanEddie]

Set up a hotkey in ShareX to OCR during the screengrab. Paste in gpt for clean-up.

[kyfisher]

i cant wait for the day notion releases a ereader that you can control notion with!!!!

[akos]

As Boox are an Android based devices, why don't you share the note txt/pdf directly with Obsidian? Because using Drive as a backup component in your workflow?

[RayAllenTaylor]

Hey, thank you for the nice walkthrough. Have you revisited this process with the latest updates on the supernote, like Drive Synch, Text Notes and so on?

[drycereal]

Do you have an updated video for the kindle scribe? Have any of these options gotten better?

[olaoxxaupomme]

I would be really interesting to see your workflow with it. Because I use both obsidian and the rm2 daily and i'm curious to know how you use it, because I'd like to use it too, but i dont see why.

[thispaulrules]

I agree with your note - DDVK is the reason that I am not on v3.X yet.