Using Symploke

Getting set up The four planners Meeting planner Daily sync Your handwriting Calendar tips Troubleshooting

Getting set up

1. Add your calendars

Symploke reads standard calendar feeds (iCal/ICS links). In Settings → Calendar sources, paste the address of each calendar you want in your planner:

• Google Calendar: calendar settings → “Integrate calendar” → Secret address in iCal format.
• Apple iCloud: share the calendar as a public calendar and copy the webcal link.
• Outlook / Microsoft 365: calendar settings → “Shared calendars” → publish the calendar and copy the ICS link. Choose “Can view all details”; with lower settings every meeting arrives as just “Busy”.

Paste the feed link, not the calendar's web page address. If your planner comes out empty, this is the usual reason. We check the URL when you add it and warn if it looks wrong.

Give each calendar a colour if you like; meetings are tinted by calendar throughout the planner.

2. Pair your reMarkable (optional)

Pairing lets us deliver your planners over the air. Go to Settings → Pair your reMarkable, fetch a one-time code from my.remarkable.com/device/desktop, and paste it in. No pairing needed if you prefer downloading PDFs and adding them yourself.

3. Choose your planners

In Settings → Products, tick the planners you want, at your device's size: Large for the Paper Pro, Paper Pure, and reMarkable 2; Small for the Paper Pro Move. You can take any combination, even both sizes of the same planner.

The four planners

Weekly planner: a year overview linking to a clean page per week. The lean choice.

Full planner: the weekly planner plus month pages and a page for every day of the year, tappable from each week and navigable day to day. Your notes on a day's page are there when you come back to it.

Meeting planner: the full planner plus a notes page for every meeting. See below.

Daily agenda: a fresh, dated document each day: today's timeline plus a notes page per meeting. Yesterday's document (and its notes) stays untouched in the folder.

The Meeting planner, in depth

Every meeting in your calendar gets its own lined notes page at the back of the planner. Tap the meeting on its day page to jump there. The time, place, attendees, and agenda are printed at the top, and from a notes page you can hop back to the day, to the previous or next meeting (bottom corners), or along a recurring series (« »).

• Notes follow the meeting. If a meeting is rescheduled, even to another day, its page and everything you wrote on it goes with it.
• Cancelled meetings keep their page, greyed out, so your notes are never lost.
• Pages cover the past week and the next eight weeks, and new ones are added as your calendar rolls forward. Once a page exists it stays for the planner's whole year; by December it's your meeting notebook.
• Privacy: the planner literally carries its own meeting memory inside the document. Nothing about your meetings is stored on our servers.

Two things to know: renaming the meeting planner starts a fresh document with a fresh set of meeting pages (the old document keeps everything). And if you use download only (no pairing), the meeting pages are rebuilt in each download rather than accumulating; the notebook effect needs sync.

Daily sync

With sync enabled (Settings → Daily sync), we render your planners fresh from your calendars every day and deliver them to your reMarkable, usually within the hour after your chosen time. The dashboard's Push now button delivers immediately, anytime. Planners land in your Symploke Planner folder (or the folder you chose, even the top level).

Sync uses reMarkable's unofficial cloud interface, the same one most reMarkable tools rely on. If reMarkable changes it, sync may pause briefly while we adapt; downloading always works meanwhile.

Your handwriting is sacred

When we refresh a planner, we replace the printed content underneath your ink; your writing stays exactly where you put it. A few settings change the page layout itself, and those are best set once, at the start: size, toolbar position, planner start month, and a planner's name (a renamed planner is a new document; the old one keeps your writing). Changing only the folder is always safe: the planner moves with its ink.

Calendar tips

• What shows: events (one-off, recurring, all-day, cross-midnight) from as many feeds as you add. Tasks/to-dos and contact birthdays live outside calendar feeds (unless a tool of yours publishes them as one); deeper support is on our list.
• Outlook specifics: publish with “Can view all details” or titles become “Busy”. Outlook feeds cover a window of a few months around today, so distant months fill in as they approach. And Microsoft never includes the attendee list in published feeds, so Outlook meetings show without attendees; Google feeds include them.
• Languages & time: planners render in English, Swedish, French, German, Italian, Spanish, or Greek, with 12- or 24-hour times (Settings → Account).

Troubleshooting

My planner is empty. Almost always the calendar URL is the page address, not the secret feed address (see setup).

I only got one daily agenda, on the day I set up. Daily sync isn't enabled; each day's agenda arrives with the daily sync. Settings → Daily sync.

Meetings show as “Busy”. Your Outlook calendar is published with limited details. Republish with “Can view all details”.

A meeting has no attendees on its notes page. Outlook feeds never include attendees (Microsoft strips them); Google feeds do.

Something else? Write to lars@symploke.app. I read everything.