You can embed images, video, audio, PDFs, and other bullets within your RemNote documents.
Images
You can add images to your notes in several ways:
Click and Drag: If the image is on your computer's file browser or on a web page, simply click and drag it to the location in your notes where you want it to appear.
Copy and Paste: You can also use the standard copy (Ctrl+C; Cmd+C on Mac) and paste (Ctrl+V; Cmd+V on Mac) commands.
/image: If you have the image's URL, type/imageor/ii(or press Ctrl/Cmd+G) and paste the URL into the text box, and RemNote will download and add the image to your notes.
Once you've added an image to your notes, you can create Image Occlusion flashcards from it if you so desire. If the image has words in it, a photographed slide or a screenshot, RemNote can search that text along with the rest of your notes once you turn on Search Text Inside Images; see Searching Your Knowledge Base for how to set it up.
After uploading an image, you can resize it to fit your notes better. To do this, select the edge of the image and click and drag to adjust the size, or click the … in its upper-right corner and select a predefined size.
Most image formats supported by modern web browsers, such as PNG, JPG, and GIF, can be uploaded to RemNote. HEIC is the major exception (and this is a limitation of the browser, not RemNote itself).
Tip: Since images are expensive to store and sync, there are limits on how many you can upload at once. The limit is 20 images per 12 hours on the free plan, or 600 on Pro or Life-Long Learner plans. There is no limit on the total number of images you can have in your knowledge base.
Videos
To insert a video into your notes, type /iv to open the insert video command box. Paste the video URL into the box and click “insert video” or press Enter, and the video will appear. You can view the video directly from your notes.
This works with YouTube videos, or with any URL that points directly at a video file.
If your goal is to learn from a YouTube video, however, you might prefer to use the YouTube annotator rather than simply embedding the video.
Audio
Just like images and videos, you can add audio to your notes in several ways. Type /audio or /iau to open the audio panel, which has four tabs:
Upload: choose an audio file from your device.
Record: record straight into the bullet using your device's microphone.
Embed Link: paste the URL of an audio file hosted somewhere else.
Audio Search: search the Wikimedia Commons audio library and insert a result without leaving RemNote.
An audio player will appear; tapping the play symbol will play the audio. However you added it, the audio can also be turned into a transcript you can study from; see Recording and Transcribing Lectures.
Using the Extra Card Detail power-up, you can add audio as “extra info” on the backs of your flashcards.
PDFs
You can add PDFs (or most other document formats, like PowerPoint slides) to your notes by copying the URL or uploading it directly from your computer. Type /ifile to insert a PDF, or choose Upload & Learn File from the Create menu in the left sidebar. You can either paste the URL of a file, or select a file on your computer to upload.
RemNote offers powerful PDF annotation tools which allow you to read, highlight, quote, and link to PDFs right within the app. See that article for details.
If you're on your phone, you can also scan a physical page directly into a new document using the mobile app's Scan tool. See the Mobile App article for details.
Bullets
Last but not least, you can insert other bullets into your notes with Portals. This allows you to keep the same notes in multiple places, and have any changes you make to any location immediately propagate to all of them.
To open a Portal, type ( twice, then search for the bullet you wish to embed. Select it and press Enter, and it will appear, outlined in blue to indicate that it is in a portal.
If you want to delete a portal, be sure to click on the border of the portal and then delete it, rather than deleting its contents – deleting the contents of a portal will delete the original content as well, since any edits you perform apply to all copies.
