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**Summary**: The article provides detailed instructions on how to use the toolbar on a reMarkable device. It covers showing and hiding the toolbar, choosing and adjusting writing tools, using the on-screen keyboard, erasing and undoing content, moving and scaling content, viewing page overviews, tagging notes, using layers, sharing files, and adjusting document settings. It also includes information on switching between left- and right-handed modes.

**Keywords**: toolbar, reMarkable, show toolbar, hide toolbar, writing tools, marker, pencil, highlighter, line thickness, color, on-screen keyboard, paragraph styles, erase, undo, redo, selection tool, move, scale, copy, paste, page overview, convert notes, share by email, tags, layers, export, document settings, search document, add pages, reading settings, landscape view, portrait view, left-handed mode, right-handed mode.

**Generalized Terms**:
- Marker: pen, stylus, pencil
- Writing tools: pen tools
- Line thickness: line w

Learn how to access and use the Toolbar to write, format, navigate, and manage content on your paper tablet

 

Showing and hiding the Toolbar

  • Tap the Show Toolbar button to make the Toolbar visible.
  • Tap the Hide Toolbar button to collapse it from view.

reMarkable screen with toolbar showing, and show/hide toolbar button being highlighted.   

Writing tools

There’s a wide range of writing tools to choose from when creating content on your reMarkable. To access the tools and adjust the color or stroke thickness, tap the writing tools icon in the Toolbar. In the Toolbar, you’ll see two writing tools. Tap these to quickly switch between pen styles.

reMarkable screen with toolbar showing, highlighting the different writing tools.

With reMarkable Paper Pro and Paper Pro Move, you can write and sketch in color. For reMarkable 1 and 2, you can choose between black, white, and gray. Colors will be available when exporting documents to our apps. 

Erase, Undo, and Redo

Make Edits or Remove Content

    1. Tap the Toolbar.
    2. Select the Eraser, or use:
      • Undo to reverse your last action.
      • Redo to re-apply an undone action.
    Read more about the eraser tools.

     

    Move, scale, and copy content

    Use the Selection tool

    1. Tap the Selection tool from the toolbar.
    2. Draw around the content you’d like to select or draw a horizontal line, hold, and tap Select below.
    3. Use the available options to:
      • Move
      • Scale
      • Rotate
      • Copy and paste
    Read more about the Selection tool

    Toolbar position

    Change the Toolbar position

     

    In a document

    • Drag the hide/show Toolbar button to reposition the Toolbar according to your preferences.

     

    In Settings 

    • Go to Settings > Accessibility to choose your preferred Toolbar position. 

    Some of the tools will be moved into Document settings depending on your Toolbar position. 

    Use Layers

    Create complex sketches or drawings

    1. Tap the Layers icon in the Toolbar, or under Document settings.
    2. Add, hide, or delete Layers for advanced control of your notes or artwork.
    Read more about Layers

     

    Page overview

    1. Tap Page overview from the Toolbar or under Document settings.
    2. From here, you can:
      • View all pages in a document
      • Convert handwriting to text
      • Add or delete pages
      • Share pages via email

    Document settings 

    Adjust how you work

    1. Tap Document settings at the bottom of the Toolbar.
    2. From here, you can:
      • Access editing tools depending on Toolbar placement 
      • Convert handwriting to text
      • Enable Shapes
      • Apply or remove Tags
      • Search the document
      • Share
        • Present with Screen share
        • Send to Slack 
        • Send by email
        • Create a link

    Left- or right-handed mode 

    Optimize pen behavior 

    1. Go to Settings > Accessibility.
    2. Select either Left-handed or Right-handed mode.
     
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