Leuchtturm or Moleskine with Axsuro: how to set up your notebook

1. Create a notebook in Axsuro. Create one in Axsuro for every paper notebook: "+ New notebook", a name, a colour and the paper under "Where you write it". Your pages then sit in one place, like on the shelf.
2. Write the date at the top of the page. Axsuro reads the date of the page. Without one, the day of the photo counts. A short "Mon 9.11." at the top is enough.
3. Put markers at the start of lines. todo: for tasks, cal: for events, idea: for ideas, meeting: for meetings, private: for lines only you see. #Project and @Name work on any line. Lines without a marker stay thoughts.
4. Underline headings. An underlined or larger line becomes a heading and appears in the index of the book in Axsuro.
5. Photograph the pages and confirm. Take several pages in a row with the iPhone and Android app or upload the photos in the browser. Tasks and events wait for Confirm.

Yes. Axsuro only needs a photo of the page, ruled, squared, dotted or blank. Leuchtturm1917 and Moleskine are examples because many people use them. Axsuro is not affiliated with either brand.

Leuchtturm1917 notebooks usually have numbered pages and pages for a table of contents at the front. The pages of a classic Moleskine are usually not numbered. Check your model. For Axsuro it hardly matters: if a page number is on the page, Axsuro reads it, otherwise it counts on.

Here is what a page in your notebook might look like:

• Mon 9.11.
• Winter planning (underlined)
• paint the flat only after the renovation
• todo: call the painter #Flat by Fri
• cal: Thu 18:00 parents' evening
• idea: photo book of the summer
• private: check bank balance

Axsuro turns that into a heading in the index, a thought, a task in the Flat project due Friday, an event on Thursday at 18:00, an idea, and a private line that only you see. Every marker is on How markers work.

If you like keeping your notebook's table of contents by hand, carry on. Axsuro also builds its own index in the book: pages with their headings, projects, people and bookmarks. You don't need to copy anything.

In Axsuro you see your pages in the book as you wrote them, by page number, with the tasks and events on them. You turn the pages like in the notebook and search everything you wrote with ⌘K.

Axsuro has a sheet of send-to stickers that you print yourself in the web app at app.axsuro.com/print/send-to. Stick one on the page and tick a symbol, and Axsuro sends the whole page there once it is read: to Todoist or as an email to yourself on every plan, to Slack or Notion from Pro with the matching connection.

Printed marker stickers (Task, Event, Idea …) are coming. Until then, simply write the markers by hand.

• A dark pen reads better than a light pencil or pastel colours.
• Good light without hard shadows from your hand or phone.
• The whole page in the frame. Axsuro crops the page but doesn't straighten it. Hold the phone as parallel to the page as you can.
• Spreads: photograph each page on its own, so the order is right.
• No signal: photos taken offline are sent by the app later.

For a whole old notebook there is archive mode: many photos or PDFs at once, nothing to confirm, dates guessed. How it works is in Digitise old diaries and notebooks.

Still deciding between paper and an e-ink tablet? The guide E-ink tablet or notebook helps.

• 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.
• Make old diaries, notebooks and family archives searchable
  Bring in old diaries, letters and notebooks at once: Axsuro reads every page, guesses the date and makes it all searchable, with nothing to confirm.
• E-ink tablet or notebook: what really helps you think
  reMarkable, Kindle Scribe, Boox or a paper notebook? A calm comparison: what each does well, where it falls short and how to make paper searchable.