Blog
On studying in Hebrew, planning on the iPad and the Israeli week. Short posts, no filler.
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What a Linked Index Is and Why It Saves Your Night Before an Exam
A linked index is one page at the front of your notebook where every row jumps to a lesson. How to build one, fill it fast, and what it saves before exams.
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How to use navigation tabs in a PDF notebook
A digital notebook with tabs brings the dividers of a paper notebook into a PDF. How to import it, tap the tabs, add pages and keep the tabs working.
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How to move your notebooks to a new notes app without losing a lecture
Switching from Notability to Goodnotes, or the other way, mid semester? Export a PDF, import it as a document, and test one page before you move the rest.
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How to back up your digital notebooks before you need them
Cloud sync in Goodnotes is not a backup by itself. How to make sure a semester of notes survives a broken or stolen tablet, with automatic and manual backups.
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How to organize your notebook folders by semester
A short guide to setting up folders by semester in a note-taking app, with one course notebook inside each, so nothing gets lost by the end of a busy year.
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How to Write Right to Left in Your Note Taking App
Handwriting Hebrew right to left works from day one in most note taking apps. Typed text boxes and templates built for English still trip people up.
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Why Hebrew Text Comes Out Reversed in a PDF, and What to Do
Reversed Hebrew in a PDF is usually not a display bug, it's the file itself. Here's how to tell in ten seconds, and what actually fixes it on a tablet.
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How handwriting search actually works, including in Hebrew
How handwriting search in note apps works on a tablet, why Hebrew results are less reliable than English ones, and what to do when a search turns up nothing.
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How to add a page in the middle of a digital notebook
What happens to the index and the navigation buttons when you add a page in the middle of a lesson notebook, and why there is usually a simpler fix than inserting one.
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How to duplicate a notebook, one copy per course
How to duplicate a whole notebook file for each course, and how to duplicate a single page when one section runs out of room, without breaking a single link.
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Document or paper: the import choice that breaks your links
Every PDF import into Goodnotes asks document or paper. Here is what each one actually does, when to pick paper, and when it wipes out your links.
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How to import a notebook PDF without losing its links
You bought a digital notebook, imported it, and the index does nothing. It is nearly always one of two things. How to import a PDF into Goodnotes as a document, and what to check when a link will not respond.
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Where the time actually goes when you take notes by hand
Writing by hand is not the slow part. The hours disappear around it: finding a page, carrying the wrong notebook, running out of pages, copying a timetable again. What a notebook on the iPad removes, and what it does not.