How to digitise your bullet journal without typing

1. Keep your journal as usual. Daily log, monthly spread, trackers. A box ☐ at the start of a line for tasks, cal: for events, and a #project for collections, such as #reading.
2. Photograph the pages. With the Axsuro app on your iPhone, one page after another, straight from above. An open spread works as “Double page” and is split at the fold.
3. Confirm and keep going. Tasks and events wait for “Confirm”, then they are in your list and your calendar. Thoughts, ideas and trackers appear on the page straight away.

In a bullet journal, a sign at the start of a line says what the line is. Axsuro works the same way, with markers:

• Tasks: a drawn box ☐ or todo:. A date in the line becomes the due date, such as ☐ file taxes 15.11.
• Events: cal: Sat 9:00 market becomes an event, also in Google Calendar or Outlook if you connected them.
• Ideas and questions: idea: goes to your ideas, and a line starting with ? becomes an open question.
• Notes: lines without a marker stay thoughts, just as you wrote them.
• Headings: a title or an underlined line becomes a heading and shows in the book's index.

If you use signs of your own, set up your own markers in Settings → Markers: a word or emoji at the start of the line, or a look such as circled, boxed, highlighted or with a star ★. Free has 3 own markers, Plus and up as many as you like. Every marker is explained on How markers work.

Many people draw a habit tracker every month: habits down the side, days across, ticked boxes. Axsuro reads these grids as part of reading the page, plus mood grids such as a “year in pixels” and water or sleep logs.

• On the page: a “Trackers” card with one row per habit: the current streak, the best run and how often you kept it, the average for moods and amounts, and a strip with one square per day.
• In the notebook: on the web, “Trackers in this notebook” lists every habit once, even when it appears on different pages in October and November.

Trackers are read on every plan. Streaks, rates and the strip are shown with Plus and up, also for trackers read before. Filling in a square by hand is not possible in Axsuro yet; simply photograph the page again when the month is full.

• Search: ⌘K finds every line that was read, including a daily log from three months ago.
• Ask: ask in plain words, such as “Which book did I want to read next?”. Ask answers only from your notes, with a link to the page.
• The book: every notebook opens as a book, by page number, with an index of pages, projects and people.
• On this day: on Home, Axsuro shows a page from exactly one year ago, otherwise one month or one week.

If you have years of journals on the shelf, bring them in in one go: in the web app under Scans with “Bring in an old notebook”, in the app with “Old notebook” on the camera. Nothing becomes a task or an event, and there is nothing to confirm. How it works is in the guide Make old diaries and notebooks searchable.

Free reads 60 pages a month, Plus 500. Every new account starts with 14 days of Pro, no card needed. All plans are on the pricing page.

• How to make old diaries and notebooks searchable
  Digitise old diaries: bring in whole notebooks at once, Axsuro reads and dates every page with nothing to confirm. Then search them and ask them questions.
• From paper to Google Calendar, Outlook and Todoist
  Sync a paper planner with Google Calendar: write cal: and todo:, take a photo, confirm. Axsuro syncs with Google, Outlook, Microsoft To Do and Todoist.
• How to digitise handwritten notes and keep writing on paper
  How to digitise handwritten notes and whole notebooks, old pages and PDFs included. Then search, ask, organise and export everything you wrote.