Bookmarks are lost when leaving the notebook.

[dafxy]

PDFs hold the created bookmarks, but notebooks do not. The notebook's bookmarks disappear upon closing and reopening them.

[mb1986]

I've just tested on my end and I cannot reproduce the issue... Works for both PDFs and notebooks. It is important that xochitl runs with QML_XHR_ALLOW_FILE_READ=1 and QML_XHR_ALLOW_FILE_WRITE=1 environment variables.

Could you please verify that you have them properly setup:

cat /etc/systemd/system/xochitl.service.d/qmlfileops.conf 

The qmlfileops.conf file should contain:

[Service]
Environment="QML_XHR_ALLOW_FILE_READ=1"
Environment="QML_XHR_ALLOW_FILE_WRITE=1"

Do you use any launcher that may possibly cause this issue?

[dafxy]

My qmlfileops.conf file matches your description. Not sure about the launcher. How do I check that?

[mb1986]

I mean one of those: https://remarkable.guide/guide/software/launcher.html. Do you use them?

[dafxy]

I am not using any of those, only the default.

[dafxy]

I noticed that it is working on other new notebooks. After I copied all the content to another notebook, it worked.

[txoof]

RM 2, V3.11.2.5 (rM Hacks v0.0.10)

I experienced this today and I can't seem to reproduce it in another notebook, but I have a notebook file that will no longer accept bookmarks. The only bookmarks that appear are First Page and Last Page. Adding bookmarks to this works until the document is closed. Upon reopening the document, all the bookmarks are gone except for First and Last.

Inspecting the documents on the remarkable shows that the .bookm file still contains all the expected bookmarks (see below).

@mb1986 is there a process that I could use to recover these? It's a real bummer to lose all of those bookmarks. I can zip up and share the document and associated files with you if that's helpful. I'd rather not post it here.

cat 1c21f516-665a-4089-8191-9338ffeb12c1.bookm

{"6b1c7dea-469e-41b0-a75d-f550559fceb8":{"name":"March 24"},"a5e3ce60-a569-4a5c-9ede-5b9a37d6463c":{"name":"Future log"},"b0d7962a-af6d-4b5a-951c-65c5a948ddbc":{"name":"VU registration"},"b35c60da-f73f-43c3-961b-4eb911bc0be0":{"name":"April 24"},"fd749135-05c1-4c35-95fc-0934bb1825a2":{"name":"House Repairs"},"af09d9ad-ed29-46d3-a144-6bdba0a97353":{"name":"Expenses"},"194c77d9-cb85-43e0-a0eb-751f1238e46d":{"name":"May 24"},"68e56ed7-a073-434a-87a0-86a658d24ee7":{"name":"Vacation 2024"},"406a52dd-3d0f-4c00-ad05-f04c42c6e380":{"name":"June 24"},"e9ef6ec7-7a9e-4a2e-a475-f907e05e2ada":{"name":"Bresda Call"},"f7bbc68a-8b06-4986-a12a-2a59907b3543":{"name":"Packing"},"aad58667-077b-4a97-af2b-ac536b1edbaa":{"name":"Cycle tour"},"040cb0ae-05f2-4e89-967e-564a9d5ba1ec":{"name":"Learn"},"73a18f9d-8a0e-4757-ad70-edb07b41b52a":{"name":"Shop/Pickup USA"},"8aeb7566-f8f3-46d4-a726-323c18a852f4":{"name":"cycle packing"},"fea6de1e-1af7-49d8-9897-c356fe11008a":{"name":"July 24"},"c3d57fba-6c83-4e97-b339-d771a5117e4f":{"name":"Lenovo service"},"b978d8e6-8cf9-40c2-83dc-020760e76e4d":{"name":"BUAS Review"},"1ca6311a-644b-44ef-9e8c-4eeba499a416":{"name":""},"a8522a4e-eb59-48c5-9828-0ad67f418122":{"name":"August 24"}}-eb59-48c5-9828-0ad67f418122":{"name":"August 24"}}

Metadata:

{
    "createdTime": "1710707144888",
    "lastModified": "1722935380360",
    "lastOpened": "1722935382353",
    "lastOpenedPage": 34,
    "parent": "",
    "pinned": true,
    "type": "DocumentType",
    "visibleName": "Personal BuJo"
}

[txoof]

Solution for recovering corrupt bookmarks

I managed to recover the bookmarks. It looks like there was a poorly composed item in the index .bookm JSON. This last item in the list appears to be causing the problem: "a8522a4e-eb59-48c5-9828-0ad67f418122":{"name":"August 24"}}-eb59-48c5-9828-0ad67f418122":{"name":"August 24"}}

Here are the steps for recovering if anyone else gets stuck:

1. Export the notebook (use RCU or tar up the all the appropriate files and sftp them somewhere should also work: tar cvzf ./deadbeef-0000-1234*)
2. Rename the existing document on the Remarkable - this ensures that you won't overwrite the original if you do something awful!
3. Un-tar the .rmn (tar xvzf MyNotebook.rmn
4. Open the .bookm document and look for poorly formatted bookmark item (see below for bookmark format)
5. Remove the problematic string, save and tgz the document (tar cvzf MyDoc.tgz ./*)
6. Send the document to the remarkable

Bookmark expected format (displayed on multiple lines for readability- NOTE: this should all be a single line with no unquoted spaces!

{
    "f7bbc68a-8b06-4986-a12a-2a59907b3543": {
        "name": "Packing"
    },
    "fd749135-05c1-4c35-95fc-0934bb1825a2": {
        "name": "House Repairs"
    },
    "fea6de1e-1af7-49d8-9897-c356fe11008a": {
        "name": "July 24"
    }
}

Edit: If you're bold, I suppose you could edit the .bookm file on device.