Incremental Everything Plus

A RemNote plugin which allows you to interleave your flashcard reviews with notes, paragraphs from books, websites, video snippets and more! Heavily inspired by SuperMemo's Incremental Reading mode.

Features

• Incremental Reading: Read and review 1000s of notes, books and websites in parallel. Learn more.
• Incremental Writing: Write your essays and blog posts incrementally to maximize creativity. Learn more.
• Incremental Video: Watch and take notes on your YouTube video backlog.
• Incremental Tasks: Clear out your tasklist between flashcard reviews.
• Incremental Exercises: Spread out textbook exercises over time.
• Plugin support: Any RemNote plugin widget can easily integrate with Incremental Everything!

Installation

• Open the RemNote plugin store, search for "Incremental Everything" and install the plugin.

More Information (Full Documentation)

• Stay tunned and see the latest changes in the Changelog.
• For more information, please see the User's Manual in the project wiki.

Usage

Create Incremental Rem

• Tag a Rem with the Incremental tag using the /Incremental Everything command.
• Turn a PDF/website highlight into an incremental Rem by clicking on the highlight and clicking the puzzle piece icon.
• You can also create a new row in a table created from the Incremental tag.
• You can use the shortcut alt/opt+x to create an incremental Rem.
• You can use the shortcut alt/opt+shift+x to create an incremental Rem and open the priority menu.

Disable Incremental Rem

• If you are done reviewing an incremental Rem and do not wish to see it anymore, you can disable it by removing the Incremental tag.

Review

• The plugin automatically interleaves incremental Rem between your regular flashcard reviews.
• All of RemNote's practice modes ("Practice with SRS", "Practice All" and "Practice in Order") should work as expected.
  • Note that "Practice in Order" won't order the incremental Rem with flashcards. The flashcards and incremental Rem will get interleaved together.
• In "Practice with SRS" and "Practice All" modes Rem are sorted by priority. In "Practice in Order" mode they are sorted by their order in the document.
• Inside the queue, you can control how many incremental Rem you want to see and how they are sorted using the Sorting Criteria button in the queue menu.

Incremental Reading

• You can tag PDFs, websites and highlights with the Incremental tag to do classic SuperMemo-style incremental reading.
• It will work if you tag the PDF or website itself, or a Rem with a single PDF or website as a source.
• The plugin will render the PDF or website reader view inside the queue.
• If you want to turn a highlight into an incremental Rem, click on the highlight and click the puzzle piece icon (I need to add proper shortcuts still!)

Incremental Writing

• You can tag any normal Rem with the Incremental tag to turn it into an incremental Rem.
• The plugin will render it as a normal Rem in the document view in the queue.

Incremental Video

• You can tag YouTube videos with the Incremental tag to watch them incrementally.
• It will work if you tag the link Rem itself, or a Rem with the YouTube link as a source.
• The plugin will automatically save your progress and playback rate.
• You can open the resizable notes section on the left to take notes while you watch.

Incremental Mathematics

• A quick example of plugin interoperability.
• Integrates with my Lean theorem prover plugin to schedule math proof problem sets over time.
• The Lean plugin provides the queue widget and the Incremental Everything plugin provides the scheduling.
• I hope other devs can build similar integrations with their plugins!

Subset Review

• You can do basic subset reviews by studying a particular document. Only Rem from that document will be shown to you.
• You can also create a table from the Incremental tag and filter it down to a sorted subset using the table filter and sort features.
• You can review the rows of a table in order by sorting the table and using the "Practice in Order" practice mode.

There are lots of ways you can filter the table to create a subset of Rem to review. Here are some examples:

• Only Web extracts

• Only YouTube videos

Prioritization

• You can use the /Prioritize command to set the priority of an incremental Rem or change it using RemNote's tables and properties features.
• The plugin will prioritize Rem with a lower priority over Rem with a higher priority. So 0 is for your most important material and 100 is for the least important.
• You can set the balance between priority sorting and randomness using the Sorting Criteria menu button in the queue.

Scheduling

• The plugin uses an extremely simple scheduling algorithm: const newInterval = Math.ceil(multiplier ** Math.max(repHistory.length, 1)); where the multiplier is 1.5 by default.
• Note that you can manually set the next repetition date using RemNote's tables and properties features.

Improvements of this Plus version in relation to the original Incremental Everything plugin

Priotitization & Sorting System improvements

• "Change Priority" Button: Added a button to the answer bar to quickly change a Rem's priority directly from the queue, using the original priority popup.

• At-a-Glance Priority Assessment: The "Change Priority" button now displays not only its set (absolute) priority, but also the Rem's relative rank within the Knowledge Base (% of KB) and current document (% of Doc). The label's background is also color-coded — from red (high priority) to blue (low priority) — for instant visual feedback.

• Interactive Priority Popup: The "Set Priority" popup has been redesigned for a more intuitive workflow. It now features a new "Relative Priority" slider with a full-color gradient, allowing you to set a Rem's priority by either typing an absolute value or visually selecting its desired percentile rank.

• Customizable Default Priority: Added a new option in the plugin settings for users to set their own default priority for new incremental Rem.

• Priority Inheritance: New incremental rems now automatically inherit the priority from their closest parent or ancestor that is also an incremental rem. This streamlines workflow by making priority management more intuitive and hierarchical, falling back to the default priority only if no ancestor is found.

• Sorting Criteria - New Flashcard Ratio selector and logic: The Flashcard Ratio slider has been completely overhauled to be linear and intuitive, directly controlling the number of cards. This fixes persistent bugs in the queuing logic, ensuring the selected card sequence is now reliable and accurate.

• Priority Shield (= Priority Protection): To give you a clear, actionable metric for managing your learning load, a new "Priority Shield" has been added.

  • This real-time status indicator shows your processing capacity for high-priority material by displaying the priority of the most important due item you have yet to review.
  • It appears automatically below the answer buttons in the queue, providing separate metrics for your entire Knowledge Base (KB) and the current document.
  • You can track your performance over time by accessing the "Priority Shield History" graph from the queue menu (the three-dot icon).
  • The real-time display can be toggled on or off in the plugin's settings.

Easier switch between Queue and Editor with new buttons

• Review & Open in Editor: For moments when the queue's embedded view is too limited, a "Review & Open" button is available on the answer bar. This button first registers your review of the item (rescheduling it for the future, just like the "Next" button) and then instantly navigates you to the full RemNote editor for that item. This is ideal for detailed note-taking, using other plugins like AI tools, or performing complex edits without losing your review progress.

• "Open Editor in New Tab" (for PDFs): As a workaround for recent RemNote changes that prevent opening an editor pane within the PDF viewer in the queue, a new button has been added for PDF rems. This allows users to quickly open the source document in a new browser tab to see the full context without exiting their review session.

Other improvements

• "Scroll to Highlight" Button: Added a button to the answer bar that appears only for highlight cards, allowing you to instantly jump back to the highlight's position in the PDF.

• Reschedule button: Added a button to the answer bar that opens a popup for manually setting the next review interval in days. This popup intelligently defaults to the same interval the 'Next' button would have calculated, provides a live preview of the resulting date, and performs a full repetition when submitted.

• "Press 'P' to Edit" Hint: Added an idle button that appears for regular Rem and PDF cards, informing users of the native shortcut to open the editor (as trying to edit directly in the Document Viewer triggers keyboard shortcut conflicts and is not recommended).

• "Enter" Key in Popup: The priority popup can now be closed by pressing the "Enter" key after typing a value, improving workflow speed.

• PDF Highlight menu item toggle now also triggers the priority popup, so that, when making PDF extracts, the user can instantly set the extract priority or press enter to use the default priority.

Enhanced Queue Layout & Plugin Compatibility

The previous plugin version applied a single, permanent CSS rule that modified the entire flashcard queue, which could unintentionally affect the layout of regular flashcards.

async function onActivate(plugin: ReactRNPlugin) {
  plugin.app.registerCSS(
    'queue-container',
    `
    .rn-queue__content {
      height: 100vh !important;
      ...
    }
    `
  );

We now implemented a more intelligent and compatible approach:

• Conditional Styling: The layout-fixing styles are now dynamically applied only when an incremental rem is being reviewed. The styles are immediately removed for standard flashcards, preserving the native RemNote queue experience.

• Plugin Compatibility: A fix has been added to automatically hide the Flashcard Repetition History plugin widget during incremental reviews. This resolves layout conflicts and allows both plugins to be used together seamlessly.

Known Issues

Incremental PDF Reading Position

When reading a large PDF (like a book) as a regular incremental Rem, the plugin may not reliably return you to your last incremental reading spot.

• The Problem: If you open and scroll the same PDF in another window or tab, your incremental reading position will be lost. RemNote's native PDF viewer only remembers the single most recent position for a document, which overwrites the position from your incremental reading session. This also means you cannot have multiple incremental Rems for different chapters of the same PDF file, as they would all share the same scroll position.
• The Cause: This is due to a limitation in the current RemNote Plugin SDK. The plugin lacks the necessary tools to programmatically save and restore a specific scroll position for a PDF and must rely on RemNote's default behavior.
• How You Can Help: To fix this, we need the RemNote developers to expand the capabilities of their Plugin API. We have submitted a Feature Request asking for these tools. Please help us by upvoting the request on the RemNote feedback platform. More upvotes will increase its priority.

➡️ Upvote the Feature Request on the RemNote Feedback Site

Keyboard Shortcut Conflict:

When viewing a regular Rem card in the queue, the editor correctly appears. However, native queue keyboard shortcuts will take precedence over typing in the editor. This appears to be due to a limitation in the current plugin API that prevents a plugin from fully capturing keyboard input within the queue environment. The "Press 'P' to Edit" button has been added as a workaround. You can also use the newly created button "Review & Open".

Development Details

• The plugin stores repetition data as powerup properties on the Rem. So these aren't "normal" RemNote flashcards. All of the scheduling is managed internally by the plugin.
• Let me know if you want to help develop the plugin! Join the RemNote Discord and message me (Jamesb)!

How to Develop

Run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/bjsi/incremental-everything
cd incremental-everything
npm i
npm run dev

Then follow this part of the quick start guide to get the plugin running in RemNote.