chrisgscott/share-to-remarkable

Share-to-remarkable lets you send any web page from your iPhone to a reMarkable tablet as a clean, readable PDF. You tap Share in Safari or Chrome on iOS, and a few seconds later the article shows up on your tablet, formatted for reading rather than showing the original page layout with ads and navigation menus. The reMarkable browser extension already does this on desktop computers, but iOS does not allow browser extensions, so there was no equivalent for phones and tablets. This project fills that gap with a small self-hosted service paired with an iOS Shortcut. When you share a link, the Shortcut sends the URL to the service, which fetches the page, strips out ads and navigation using Mozilla's Readability library, the same one used in Firefox Reader View, converts the clean article into a PDF tuned for e-ink displays using WeasyPrint, and uploads it to your reMarkable Cloud account. Setting this up requires a reMarkable account, a server capable of running Docker (any basic VPS works, since the project bundles Node and WeasyPrint into the container), and an iPhone or iPad to build the Shortcut. The setup involves registering a device token with reMarkable, generating a shared secret to protect the service since it sits on the public internet, running the container, and then building the iOS Shortcut following the included instructions. The project is honest about its limits. Pages that render their content entirely through JavaScript may come back empty, since Readability cannot process them without a real browser. Some layouts confuse Readability into grabbing the wrong section of a page. A few news sites block server-side requests outright. The README also points out a simpler, no-server alternative that many people may prefer: converting the page to a PDF on-device and importing it directly into the reMarkable app. That method is simpler and does not depend on reMarkable's unofficial cloud API, but it preserves the page's full layout rather than reformatting it as a clean article. This project exists specifically for people who want the reformatted, e-ink-friendly version. It is licensed under MIT.