Distillate — Distill research papers into structured notes

Save paper in Zotero ──> PDF on reMarkable │ Read & highlight on tablet Move to Read folder when done │ Distillate picks it up: ├── Annotated PDF with highlights ├── Markdown note + AI summary ├── Reading log entry └── Paper archived on reMarkable

pip install distillate && distillate init

What it does

Highlight extraction Parses reMarkable .rm files to extract highlighted text, grouped by page

Annotated PDFs Overlays highlights on the original PDF using text-search matching

AI summaries One-liner, paragraph summary, and key learnings via Claude

Structured notes Markdown with metadata, highlights, and Obsidian or plain folder output

Reading log Auto-updated log of everything you've read, sorted by date

Email digest Weekly summaries and daily paper suggestions from your queue

What you need

Component	Required
Zotero	Yes
reMarkable tablet + rmapi	Yes
Obsidian vault or output folder	No
Anthropic API key (AI summaries)	No
Resend API key (email digest)	No