A paper planner on a digital notepad

For the last few years, I’ve kept a rough schedule on my digital notepad (first the reMarkable, later the Kindle Scribe), and the tools keep getting better every year.

Planning tools aren’t native on either device, so I’ve been purchasing templates from “ ePaperTemplates “ on Etsy. They make some great templates at a fair price and I’ve enjoyed them.

In the case of these templates, they’re just really fancy PDFs. You can load them onto your reMarkable or Scribe (or iPad or Supernote or whatever) and access them that way. There are two key things that make this work.

• Because of how these tablets are designed, you can write on the PDF and fill in your schedule.
• These tablets all support PDF links from page to page. This means you can tap on the month and be taken to that overview, click on a specific day to jump to that page, etc. It feels like a seamless bit of software, though behind the scenes you’re actually jumping from like page 14 to page 127. The links make it work.

This video shows a bit about how it feels: