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How to add templates to reMarkable 2, Paper Pro and Paper Pro Move

By Graphite Planner · Last updated 8 October 2026

A reMarkable has two kinds of template: the page backgrounds in the template menu, and PDF files you import as documents. A hyperlinked planner only works as the second kind. This article covers both on the reMarkable 2, Paper Pure, Paper Pro and Paper Pro Move, and what to do when a link does nothing.

Two kinds of template on a reMarkable

The template menu inside a notebook holds single-page backgrounds: lines, grids, a week view, a checklist. You choose one for a page, write over it and can swap it later. These backgrounds have no links, and each page stands on its own.

A PDF planner is a different thing. It is one document of hundreds of pages, where a month links to its weeks, a week to its days and every page back to the index. reMarkable's own Templates help article says custom templates are not supported. The workaround it suggests is to import a PDF as a document. Imported PDFs do not appear in the template menu and cannot be set as a notebook background. For a planner that is exactly right, because its links only work while the PDF stays a document.

Where Methods fits in

Methods is reMarkable's own library of templates and workbooks. According to About reMarkable Methods and the Templates article, downloading from Methods needs a Connect subscription, and the downloaded templates then show up in the template picker under their own category. Methods only offers reMarkable's catalogue: it is not a way to add your own file to the template menu.

Step 1: pick the file for your screen

A 3:4 page on the tall screen of the Move is shrunk and framed by white bars, and a 9:16 page on a 3:4 screen has the same problem the other way round. If a planner comes in several layouts, take the one drawn for your screen shape rather than a single file meant for every tablet.

Step 2: copy it with the reMarkable app

1. Download the PDF to your computer or phone. If it came as a zip file, unzip it first: the tablet cannot open a zip.
2. Open the reMarkable desktop app or mobile app, signed in to the same account as your tablet.
3. Drag the PDF into the app, or use its import button. It syncs to the tablet and appears in My files.

This is the method described in reMarkable's Importing and exporting files article, and it works the same on every model.

Or copy it by USB

If you prefer a cable, the article Transferring files using a USB cable describes the USB web interface. Connect the tablet to your computer, turn on Settings › General settings › Storage › USB web interface, then open a browser and go to 10.11.99.1. Drag the PDF onto that page. The same article lists PDF, EPUB and rmdoc as the supported file types and 100 MB as the largest file you can send this way.

Both methods give the same result on the tablet: a PDF document with its links intact.

Step 3: write with the Marker, tap with a finger

Open the file from My files. The Marker writes on any page. Links respond to a fingertip; a tap with the Marker draws a small stroke on the button instead. This catches almost everyone the first time, and it is not a fault in the file.

Links inside PDF documents need reMarkable software 3.3 or later. If no link ever responds to a finger, check for a software update before anything else.

The toolbar sits along one side of the page. If a planner puts buttons under it, opening the toolbar hides them. Graphite files keep that side free of anything tappable, and you can close the toolbar to see the whole page.

Keep a clean copy. Your writing is saved into the document, so keep the original PDF on your computer, or duplicate the document on the tablet before you start, as the Templates article suggests. To start over, import it again under a new name.

What happens to the links

• Links are part of the PDF itself, so they survive the app, the cloud sync and the USB transfer unchanged.
• A tap jumps to another page of the same document. A good planner always gives you a way back, usually an Index button in the top bar.
• Your handwriting stays on the page where you wrote it. Following a link and coming back does not move it.
• A planner does not need links to websites. Graphite files have none: every link stays inside the file.

Troubleshooting

A link does nothing, or the Marker draws on the button.

Tap with a finger. If links never respond, update the tablet to software 3.3 or later.

There are white bars around the page, or the page looks small.

The layout was drawn for another screen shape. Use Large 3:4 on the reMarkable 2, Paper Pure and Paper Pro, and Move 9:16 on the Paper Pro Move.

The file never shows up on the tablet.

Check that you imported the PDF and not the zip it came in, that the app is signed in to the same account, and, for USB, that the file is under 100 MB.

The tabs are under my hand.

Use the left-handed file, which mirrors the page: tabs on the left, the free toolbar side on the right.

The text looks small on my Move.

Use the main 9:16 files rather than the denser Move Classic ones. The main Move layout has no text below 8 pt.