Send to tablet
Files to the tablet — from any app.
The Share menu, a drag onto the Dock icon, the Shelf, or ⌘P — four ways, all ending the same: the file lands in the right folder on your tablet, with your tags, sized for its screen.
A web article is stripped of menus and banners before it goes — right on your Mac, with no browser extension and no AI model.
the Share menu in Safari — and in every other app
Four ways
How to send
use whichever is closest to hand
The Share menu
everywhere“Save to Slate Drive” shows up in any Mac app that has the menu — Preview, Mail, Safari, Chrome, your editor. Nothing to install.
A drag onto the icon
dock or menu barGrab files in Finder and drop them on the Slate Drive icon in the Dock — switch the icon on once in settings. No window opens, nothing to confirm.
The Shelf
collect, then sendDrop files onto it through the day and send them all with one click. Each one shows what will happen to it: “keep as is,” “→ PDF” or “→ Notebook.” The Shelf sits on whichever edge you choose — left or right, at the height you like; with several displays it can stand on each or only on the main one. It slides out when you start dragging something, or stays at the edge all the time if you prefer.
⌘P
from any appSlate Drive is a real printer. Add it once in Printers & Scanners and it appears in every app that can print. The paper sizes are tablet screens, your model first, plus A4 and Letter. The print goes straight out with no windows — just a notification when it’s done.
You decide who sees the printer. By default only this Mac. Switch on “this Mac and the network” and other devices in the house can print to the tablet, iPhone and iPad included; the Mac has to be awake.
Web articles
Cleaned up on your Mac, no extensions
only the article survives
Share a page from Safari, Chrome, Arc or Firefox and it becomes a PDF laid out for your tablet’s screen. First the app keeps only the article: the text, the headings and its images. Menus, ads, cookie banners, subscription pop-ups and comments never reach the tablet.
The cleanup is done by Defuddle or Readability — both built into the app, neither goes online. A third option is an AI model on your own key; it stays off until you switch it on. You can also turn cleanup off and keep the whole page, or leave the page’s images out entirely.
Defuddle
defaultbuilt in, runs on your Mac
Readability
built in, runs on your Mac
An AI model on your key
offswitched on separately
What happens to a file
PDFs and EPUBs as they are, everything else to PDF or Notebook
The tablet understands PDFs and EPUBs itself, so they go over untouched. Everything else — Word and Pages documents, HTML, Markdown, images — the app turns either into a PDF sized for your model’s screen or into a Notebook, the tablet’s own format (.rm), which you can edit on the device.
Accepts
- EPUB
- DOCX
- Pages
- HTML
- Markdown
- RTF
- TXT
- JPG · PNG · HEIC
Arrives on the tablet as
- EPUB
- Notebook (.rm)
Notebook is the tablet’s own format. Text arrives typed or handwritten in ballpoint — your pick in settings; either way you can edit the note right on the reMarkable. DOCX, RTF, Markdown and TXT never travel in their original form: the app writes a PDF or a Notebook from them. As files they stay on the Mac or go to an integration.
Handwriting
What it writes with, and on what paper
the tablet’s tools, not ours
When text travels to the tablet as a handwritten note, the app lays it out in strokes, the way the pen does. So the writing has the same settings a sheet has on the reMarkable itself.
Four tools
Ballpoint, fineliner, pencil and mechanical pencil — the same four the tablet has. Each leaves its own mark: the pen and the pencil vary in pressure along a stroke, the fineliner holds a steady line.
Thickness and smoothing
Three thicknesses — thin, regular, thick: this is the tablet’s own setting, and each tool has its own numbers. Three degrees of smoothing decide how even the writing is: “slight” keeps the tremor of a living hand, “full” draws the line almost as if against a ruler.
Paper is a tablet template
It writes on any ruled template the tablet has: lines, grid, dots, margin, US College, Legal — or on a blank sheet. The template travels with the note, so on the device it looks like one started there.
Spacing matters on blank paper only
Wide, regular or tight is about the distance between lines on an empty page. On ruled paper the spacing comes from the ruling itself: lines of writing sit on the rules, not across them.
Where it lands
One folder, one set of tags, your screen
the same for all four ways
Destination folder
You set it once in settings. Or have the app ask on every send instead.
Tags
The tags from settings are added to every document you send, whichever way it went. Web articles can have a list of their own; an empty list falls back to the common one. On the tablet these are ordinary tags, the same as ones put on by hand.
Laid out for your model
Pages are laid out for the screen of the tablet you chose: reMarkable 2, Paper Pure, Paper Pro or the narrow Paper Pro Move. Nothing arrives with somebody else’s margins.
AI Studio actions
A transcript or a summary can be written to the tablet too — next to the original note or into any folder. AI Studio →
FAQ
Questions about sending
- Do I need a browser extension?
- No. The Share menu is part of macOS, so the item is there in Safari, Chrome, Arc and Firefox from the start. There’s nothing for a browser update to break, either.
- Does the page go online during cleanup?
- No, not with Defuddle or Readability — both run on your Mac. An AI model on your own key is a separate option, off by default.
- Can I print from an iPhone or iPad?
- Yes, if you set the printer to “this Mac and the network.” Then other devices on your network see it as an ordinary printer; the Mac has to be awake. By default the printer is visible to this Mac only.
- What happens to my .docx?
- It becomes a PDF sized for the tablet’s screen or, if you choose, a Notebook — a native reMarkable note you can edit on the device. A typed note can’t hold a table or an image; then the file goes as a PDF, and the panel says so. The original on your Mac is left as it was.
- Do I have to open the app?
- No. Share, drag, the Shelf and printing all work without windows — the app lives in the menu bar.
- Where does a file go if I never picked a folder?
- Into the destination folder from settings. Until you choose one, that’s an “Inbox” folder at the top level of your library — the app creates it on the first send. Settings can also make it ask for a folder every time.