Bullet journal templates for the reMarkable

Screen estate optimised bullet journal templates for the reMarkable (2) paper tablet

These are basic bullet journaling grids with 32 squares vertically. I created them so that one can easily copy/paste things between monthly, regular and quarter pages while taking advantage of the full screen estate of the reMarkable devices and have day numbers with indicated weekends.

Install

If you don’t have any of the fancy third party tools, you can just use scp and if needed ssh and vim.
These come with few to no guard rails. You can brick your device if you run the wrong commands so be careful 😱
If you have not used these tools before or feel insecure it is a good idea to read an introduction to them or to ask a friend for help or supervision. You’ll learn the most if they don’t touch your keyboard 😊

1. Clone or download the repo and navigate into it.
2. Copy the *.png files to /usr/share/remarkable/templates/ on your remarkable using something like
   scp *.png root@reMarkable:/usr/share/remarkable/templates/. so that the templates will be on your device.
   Depending on your wifi router you might have to replace reMarkable with your reMarkable’s IP. You find it on the device under Menu->Settings->Help->About->Copyright and licenses on the first page in the last line on the screen. Two lines further up you’ll also find the ssh password.
3. Either copy the templates.json from this repo to your remarkable or edit your existing templates.json on your device so that your device becomes aware of the new templates. If you already have added custom templates, you will have to edit. Otherwise just copying should be okay (tested with firmware version 2.4.1.30., 2.5.0.27 and 2.8.0.98) It is safer to make a backup now using scp root@reMarkable:/usr/share/remarkable/templates/templates.json backuppath/. and it only takes seconds. After making the backup either
   • Copy the templates.json from this repo scp templates.json root@reMarkable:/usr/share/remarkable/templates/.
     or
   • Edit your existing file by using ssh root@reMarkable and vim /usr/share/remarkable/templates/templates.json to merge the content of 32_58.json from this repo.
4. Restart the reMarkable Menu->Settings->General->Restart and enjoy the templates.

😱 My reMarkable can’t load templates after the reboot 😱

Don’t panic. Usually that means the reMarkable could not parse the templates.json 😖. Look into it and maybe use a JSON validator to figure out what is wrong. Usually it is a comma. It happens to everyone once in a while. Bon courage! 🤗

Credits

The basic dot pattern was created using Austin Andrews’ Remarkable Template Builder.