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But the Kindle scribe, which I've talked about previously on this show is the perfect companion for me. And as a result I've been using the free form notebooks, more like a planner. I get to read, highlight, markup PDFs, and then I have a bunch of notebooks for online courses. I'm taking conferences, I'm going to planning and money and budgets and things like that. Now I still use and love my William Hannah notebook, but my friend Brian and sent me an interesting link recently to hyper paper.me.
This is a service that generates a customized version of their PDF planner. Which you can use on most E ink devices, including the remarkable, the SuperNote and the Kindle scribe, as well as a PDF annotators on iPad iOS, like good notes. And Notability. So at $19, this was an instant purchase for me. A longer review and video will be available to members of how I built it pro over at how I built dot slash pro just five bucks a month or 50 bucks a year.
But here's what I really like about it today. First of all, you can customize it. Before you purchase it. So I added a habit tracker, which admittedly I don't use as much as I'd like. Uh, but I also added an additional notes page at the end of each day. So now I have a little sidebar calendar view. I have the main notes area where I write my to do's for the day. And on that additional page, I write down my open threads. That way they're all in one place because.
The big benefit here is that I'm more likely to have my Kindle scribe with me then my William Hannah notebook. The second thing I like about it is that everything is linked. I thought navigating this behemoth of a PDF and it is a behemoth at nearly 900 pages would be a challenge. Especially because the Kindle scribes PDF navigation is lacking right now, but they considered that you can jump to any day from the month calendar. And the very first page of the PDF is a layout of the entire planner.
So you can go to the year view, the quarter view, the month view, the weekly view, the day pages or any of the other custom areas that you added. Absolutely fantastic. The other thing that I like to do is bookmark the current month. But again, you don't really need to do that with the first page. Uh, and I like to bookmark the current project page. I'm on, there's a project notes area.
And again, you don't really have to do that because there is a LinkedIn index at the beginning of the projects section. It's also got a really good table of contents. So. If I'm ever lost, or I want to jump outside the calendar views, I can open up the TOC. I was able to reasonably recreate my William Hannah notebook and it's been my daily driver for a few weeks now. We'll see if it sticks, but I'm confident it will. It's such a great product and idea.
And to be honest, the William Hannah notebook while great, usually costs me about a hundred bucks. Every. Year, maybe every nine months to send refills from the UK here. So I love my William Hannah notebook, but the Kindle scribe is with me more often. And the hyper paper product is such a smartly designed product. You can check it out in the show notes or over@hyperpaper.me.
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