The reMarkable Capture Tool Is Here — Here's How to Actually Use It for Planning
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The Capture Tool landed with OS 3.28 a couple of weeks ago.
And if you've opened it, played around for a minute, and then gone back to your normal workflow — you're not alone.
New tools take a minute to click. This one especially, because it's not obvious at first what it's actually for.
Here's how to use it in a way that actually changes how you plan.
What It Does (In One Sentence)
Circle any area of your page — a sentence, a sketch, a section of notes — and move, duplicate, resize, or rotate it anywhere on the device.
That's it. But the implications are bigger than they sound.
How to Activate It
The Capture Tool lives in your toolbar alongside your other writing tools.
Tap it, then draw a circle — or any shape — around the content you want to capture. The selection lifts off the page and becomes moveable.
From there you can:
- Drag it to a new position on the same page
- Move it to a different page in the same notebook
- Duplicate it and drop the copy somewhere else
- Resize or rotate it before placing it
When you're happy with where it lands — tap outside the selection to drop it.
4 Ways to Use It for Planning
1. Carry Your Top Priorities Forward
You wrote your top 3 priorities for the week on Monday. It's now Thursday and two of them are still open.
Instead of rewriting them on Friday's page — circle them with the Capture Tool and duplicate them forward.
Same handwriting. Same priorities. One tap.
This is the most immediate use case for planners and it saves more time than you'd expect across a week.
2. Move Tasks Between Days
You planned something for Tuesday. It didn't happen.
Circle the task, move it to Wednesday's daily page.
No crossing out, no rewriting, no visual clutter. The task just moves — cleanly.
3. Pull Notes Into Your Weekly Overview
You've been taking meeting notes all week in separate pages. Now it's Sunday and you want to do your weekly review.
Circle the key action items from each meeting and duplicate them into your weekly overview page — all in one place, ready to review.
No rewriting. No switching back and forth. Just capture and place.
4. Build a Running "Wins" Page
This one takes a minute to set up but pays off over time.
Keep a dedicated page called "Wins" or "Done This Week."
Every time you complete something worth noting — circle it from your daily page and duplicate it to the Wins page.
By Friday you have a visual record of what actually happened. Useful for weekly reviews, useful for motivation, useful for anyone who tends to forget what they accomplished because they're already focused on the next thing.
What It Doesn't Do
Worth being clear about this.
The Capture Tool works on handwritten content — your own notes, sketches, and drawings.
It does not capture typed text blocks in the same way. And it does not work on the content of a PDF — you can't circle a section of a PDF planner page and move it.
For PDF planner users, the Capture Tool is most useful in notebook pages alongside your planner — meeting notes, brain dumps, project sketches — rather than inside the planner itself.
The Bigger Shift
Before OS 3.28, your reMarkable notes were essentially fixed once written.
You could erase and rewrite. You could move pages. But moving content between pages — grabbing a section and placing it somewhere else — wasn't possible.
The Capture Tool changes that. Your notes become more fluid. Ideas can move as your thinking moves.
For planners specifically, that's meaningful: priorities carry forward, tasks migrate between days, and the weekly review pulls from wherever the week actually happened.
👉 If you want a planning structure that makes the most of features like the Capture Tool — daily, weekly, and monthly pages all hyperlinked and ready — browse PlanPro Templates.
Disclaimer: This content is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by reMarkable AS. "reMarkable" is a trademark of reMarkable AS, used here solely to indicate compatibility. Templates only — reMarkable device not included.
