Print-style planner PDFs always felt wrong on e-ink, so I spent the summer designing one for the reMarkable from scratch
I've had my reMarkable for a while and kept bouncing off planner PDFs — most are print designs exported to PDF: heavy black gridlines that compete with your handwriting, tiny link zones made for a mouse, and layouts that assume color. So I built one designed for e-ink from the first pixel.
What that ended up meaning:
- Every page is one tap away. Month grid → tap a date → that day's page. Tap the header → back to the month. The 2027 edition is 445 pages with 3,772 internal links, and navigation never needs the scrubber.
- The lines are soft grey, not black. On e-ink, your handwriting should be the darkest thing on the page. All structure sits back at roughly 60% grey and your pen pops.
- Tap targets are sized for fingers, not cursors. Big header zones, generous margins (nothing hides under the UI edges).
- Vector everything, so page turns stay instant — the whole 445-page file is under 1.5 MB.
Day pages have a top-3, an hourly rail, and dot-grid notes. Weeks and months link into everything. There's a dated 2027 edition, an undated one (write your own dates, start any week), and a 16-month Sept 2026–Dec 2027 edition.
I'm the maker, so consider this my honest disclosure — I sell these (link in comments to keep the post clean). Launch week there's 20% off with the code TAPLEAF20.
Happy to answer anything about designing for e-ink — the grey-value testing alone was a rabbit hole. And if there's a layout you wish existed (Paper Pro Move owners, I see you), tell me. I'd rather build what people actually want.