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Hello, and welcome to how I built bits, where every week I give you

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a cool tool tip or trick to help you be a better creator in six

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minutes or less clock's ticking.

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So let's get to it.

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I am a pen and paper guy, for sure.

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But the Kindle scribe, which I've talked about previously on this show

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is the perfect companion for me.

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And as a result I've been using the free form notebooks, more like a planner.

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I get to read, highlight, markup PDFs, and then I have a bunch

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of notebooks for online courses.

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I'm taking conferences, I'm going to planning and money and

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budgets and things like that.

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Now I still use and love my William Hannah notebook, but my friend

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Brian and sent me an interesting link recently to hyper paper.me.

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This is a service that generates a customized version of their PDF planner.

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Which you can use on most E ink devices, including the remarkable, the SuperNote

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and the Kindle scribe, as well as a PDF annotators on iPad iOS, like good notes.

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And Notability.

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So at $19, this was an instant purchase for me.

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A longer review and video will be available to members of how I built it

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pro over at how I built dot slash pro just five bucks a month or 50 bucks a year.

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But here's what I really like about it today.

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First of all, you can customize it.

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Before you purchase it.

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So I added a habit tracker, which admittedly I don't

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use as much as I'd like.

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Uh, but I also added an additional notes page at the end of each day.

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So now I have a little sidebar calendar view.

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I have the main notes area where I write my to do's for the day.

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And on that additional page, I write down my open threads.

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That way they're all in one place because.

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The big benefit here is that I'm more likely to have my Kindle scribe with

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me then my William Hannah notebook.

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The second thing I like about it is that everything is linked.

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I thought navigating this behemoth of a PDF and it is a behemoth at

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nearly 900 pages would be a challenge.

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Especially because the Kindle scribes PDF navigation is lacking right now,

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but they considered that you can jump to any day from the month calendar.

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And the very first page of the PDF is a layout of the entire planner.

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So you can go to the year view, the quarter view, the month view, the

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weekly view, the day pages or any of the other custom areas that you added.

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Absolutely fantastic.

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The other thing that I like to do is bookmark the current month.

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But again, you don't really need to do that with the first page.

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Uh, and I like to bookmark the current project page.

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I'm on, there's a project notes area.

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And again, you don't really have to do that because there is a LinkedIn index

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at the beginning of the projects section.

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It's also got a really good table of contents.

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So.

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If I'm ever lost, or I want to jump outside the calendar

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views, I can open up the TOC.

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I was able to reasonably recreate my William Hannah notebook and it's been

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my daily driver for a few weeks now.

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We'll see if it sticks, but I'm confident it will.

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It's such a great product and idea.

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And to be honest, the William Hannah notebook while great, usually

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costs me about a hundred bucks.

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Every.

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Year, maybe every nine months to send refills from the UK here.

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So I love my William Hannah notebook, but the Kindle scribe is with me more often.

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And the hyper paper product is such a smartly designed product.

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You can check it out in the show notes or over@hyperpaper.me.

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But that's it for this episode of how i built bits thanks so much

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for listening and until next time get out there and build something