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As a reMarkable 2 user, I agree that it would be more convenient to have a direct integration between my device and EN... for me, that's because NOBODY does handwriting recognition as well as EN (IMO). I can search all of my rM notes and actually find the ones I'm looking for. My manual integration isn't hard, but it is a little time consuming: I just email my notes into my EN account from my rM device. It moves them over as. PDF which is a format that lets EN read and index my handwriting (doesn't convert to digital text... just recognizes the words) so I can find my stuff later. Works great... could be seamless. Still, it's a helluva 1-2 punch, in my opinion!! Ron

Hi Jeffsky... The Evernote feature that goes through PDF's with handwriting or typed text and create a search index is a long-standing feature that predates RM2 by years. This is the "search handwriting" feature (https://evernote.com/features/search-handwriting) I, too, have hundreds of handwritten note pages in Evernote and when I want to look for those where I've written "Janice" or "budget", all I do is a general search in Evernote for Janice or budget and ALL of the notes I've uploaded where I've written those words pop up in the search results. I believe this is exactly what you are wanting to happen. For years, I uploaded handwritten notes from a paper spiral binder via the "import from camera" tool in the iOS app. Evernote took the photo and stored it as a PDF. With RM2, I have to send the note/notebook/partial notebook using the export tool and mail it to my unique Evernote email address. And after 2 or 3 days, that note has been indexed for search and all of the notes I've ever written Janice on will show up. It took 2 to 3 days with the camera upload as well. Evernote does NOT, however, convert the PDF to OCR text. Nor does it have to. The search results simply show the PDF of my original handwritten notes that contains that word. Again, this is what I think you are looking for. I think I mentioned above that if it can't read my handwriting because I've been particularly sloppy, it can't index the search very accurately, lol... so when I can't even read my own writing, I carefully write names and topics found in that note somewhere on the page so that it will pick up in the search indexing. But Evernote is very good and even finds most of my words - even those written in cursive. If this feature is not working for you, then I think it's an Evernote issue, not a RM2 issue. You may need to escalate the matter within Evernote Tech Support because it should be working. I hope you can get this ironed out because it really is one of those features that makes Evernote indispensable to me and I suspect it will for you, too. It's a very elegant solution to the situation you are describing. Best of luck... Ron

Yes, reMarkable's OCR is dodgy. However, if you upload a reMarkable note into Evernote AS A PDF via emailing it from the tablet to your private evernote email address, Evernote's handwriting recognition of PDF notes is pretty good. You CAN search for notes that have a handwritten word on the document and it WILL return pretty accurate results (depending on the quality of your handwriting, I suppose). But I have searched for words I am pretty sure are in my note (e.g., someone's name, a date, a project name, etc.) and then later searched in Evernote and the note pops up... in my original handwriting, but still, I found what I was looking for. I have started adding keywords for searching at the bottom of my reMarkable notes so I have a better chance of finding what I'm looking for later on.