For teachers: plan on paper, stop searching

1. Print a week page or make your own. Page templates include a week page with Monday to Sunday and room for tasks, events, ideas and waiting for. A plain notebook works just as well.
2. Plan as usual. Lessons, materials, ideas. Things to do start with todo:, things at a fixed time with cal:. A #Class or #Subject collects everything for one class in a project.
3. Start staff meetings with meeting:. Write meeting:, the title and who is there with @. Decisions get dec:, actions todo:.
4. Take a photo. In the evening, photograph the pages with the iPhone and Android app or upload them in the browser. Several pages work in one go.
5. Confirm. Tasks and events wait for Confirm. If a word is wrong, fix it first.

In a classroom a notebook is faster than any device. You jot an idea between two lessons, a reminder in the staff room, a decision in a meeting. Your eyes stay on people, not on a screen.

By the end of the week it is all over the place: the parents' evening on a slip of paper, handing back tests in the planner, the department's decision somewhere in the notebook. Axsuro brings it together without changing how you write. It reads the page line by line, and short markers at the start of a line say what it should become.

• Week 46 · #7b
• poetry: read aloud first, then collect images
• todo: copy metaphor worksheet by Mon
• cal: Thu 18:00 parents' evening 7b room 12
• idea: record the poems as a radio play
• wait: school trip answer from Ms Berger
• private: talk with L.'s mother – progress, home

Axsuro turns that into:

• a task due on Monday in the 7b project,
• an event on Thursday at 18:00, one hour long, with the room as its place,
• an idea under Thoughts → Ideas and a task marked "Waiting for someone",
• a private line that only you see and that nothing is made from,
• a searchable note from the line without a marker.

If you have connected Google or Microsoft, the task and event appear there too. See From paper to Google Calendar, Outlook and Todoist.

A page that starts with meeting: becomes a meeting with attendees, notes, decisions and tasks. Meetings with the same title form a series: at the next department meeting Axsuro shows what is still open from last time. "Send summary" emails the result to everyone who was there, even without an account. More in the guide Turn handwritten meeting notes into tasks.

Parent talks are about children. Write those lines after private:: only you can see them, and they never go into shares, to colleagues, into Ask, to assistants or into exports. When you send a summary, private lines are not in it.

With writing on a PDF (in the browser), Axsuro prints a PDF, such as slides or a curriculum, with room to write. You annotate by hand, photograph the sheets and get the original back with your notes as comments where you wrote them. Markers like todo: work there too.

If you are learning yourself, for a course or a new language, study mode (Plus and up, in the browser) makes flashcards from your own notes, reviewed after 1, 3, 7, 16 and 35 days. The cards belong to your account. Axsuro has no feature for handing decks out to a class. Students and pupils who learn with Axsuro themselves get 30 % off Plus and Pro, see Study notes.

What Axsuro does: photos and text are stored in Frankfurt and read in the EU, encrypted in transit and at rest, and never used to train AI models. Private lines are seen only by the person who wrote them. Privacy mode in the web app blurs them when you show your screen on the projector.

What Axsuro can't decide for you: which data about pupils you may keep in an app outside the school's systems. Your school and your local rules decide that. If in doubt, ask before you photograph children's names or work. Your own planning, ideas and dates need no data about children.

• Flashcards from handwritten notes
  Turn notes into flashcards: write q: and a: by hand, photograph the page, and Axsuro builds a deck per notebook with five boxes for spaced repetition.
• Turn handwritten meeting notes into tasks
  Digitise meeting notes from paper: meeting:, todo: and dec: turn a handwritten page into a meeting with tasks, decisions and a summary for everyone.
• Why writing by hand helps you remember: what research says, and what it doesn't
  Do you remember handwritten notes better? What Mueller & Oppenheimer 2014, its replications and a 2024 meta-analysis show, and why reviewing matters most.