Classic Notebook for Supernote

A hyperlinked PDF notebook for Supernote with 500 writing pages, grouped 5 per index item. Four page styles included as separate PDFs: Lined, Blank, Dot Grid, and Grid.

The Classic Notebook for Supernote is a hyperlinked PDF with 500 writing pages, built for people who keep one long-running notebook rather than a stack of half-filled files. It suits daily notes, project drafts, reading notes, and meeting logs, and because it’s undated you can open it in January or in August and nothing on the page tells you that you started late.

The notebook opens on a contents page listing 100 numbered entries. Tap any entry and you land on its first page, and each entry gives you five pages to spread out across before the next one starts. That’s the part people tend to miss on a digital notebook: a single page per topic runs out fast, so we gave every entry room to breathe.

The cover artwork was painted by Rabia, who hand-paints the cover of every mildspring product.

You get four separate files in one purchase, one for each page style, so you can keep a lined notebook and a dot grid notebook open as two different books on the same device.

What is inside

• 505 pages per file. One cover, four contents pages, and 500 writing pages. On the Nomad the file runs to 506 pages because that screen needs a fifth contents page.
• 100 entries, five pages each. Entry 01 runs from page 1 to page 5, entry 02 from 6 to 10, and so on to entry 100 ending on page 500.
• A four page contents index (five on Nomad). Every row is a tappable link that jumps to that entry’s first page.
• A title and date field at the top of the first page of each entry, so you can name the entry and stamp it yourself.
• A page position strip on every writing page, showing 01 02 03 04 05, so you always know how far into an entry you are.
• A breadcrumb at the top of every page that takes you back to the contents.
• Four page styles as four PDFs: Lined, Blank, Dot Grid, and Grid. Each one is a complete 500 page notebook in that style.

How the five page entries work

Most digital notebooks hand you a numbered list and one page per number, which works right up until a meeting runs long or a project needs a second and third page of notes. Then you’re either writing tiny or starting a new entry that has nothing to do with the first one.

Here every entry is a small chapter. Say entry 14 is a client project. You write the brief on its first page, sketch on the second, and leave the last three empty until the project actually needs them. Nothing renumbers and nothing shifts, because the 500 pages are fixed and the links point at fixed page numbers.

The position strip at the top of each page shows which of the five you’re on, so flipping ahead to find your empty space takes a glance rather than a scroll. When you’re done, the breadcrumb sends you back to the contents in one tap.

How navigation works on Supernote

Everything runs in the Supernote’s own PDF reader. There’s no app to install and no account to connect, because a PDF with internal links is a plain document as far as the device is concerned.

Tap a row on the contents page and the reader jumps to that entry’s first page. Tap the breadcrumb at the top of any writing page and you’re back on the contents. If you’d rather move page by page, the normal swipe and tap gestures still work, since we haven’t replaced anything the reader already does.

The file also carries proper PDF bookmarks, so the Supernote’s own navigation panel shows the cover and the contents without you having to find them by page number. That matters on Ratta’s devices, where a lot of people live in the sidebar rather than the page headers.

The four page styles

Lined is the tight ruling, and it’s the one most people want for text. It fits more lines per page than a standard notebook ruling, which matters when you’re writing with a stylus rather than a pen.

Dot Grid gives you the dots without the lines, so the page stays quiet. It’s the one to use if you mix handwriting with small diagrams, tables, or bullet layouts, since the dots give you something to align to without boxing you in.

Grid is the small square grid, and it’s the right pick for anything that needs real structure: budgets, timetables, sketches drawn to scale, or notes you want to sit in columns.

Blank is exactly that. No ruling at all, just the header, the breadcrumb, and the page position strip. Use it for drawing, mind maps, or handwriting that doesn’t want to sit on a line.

All four are included, and they’re separate files rather than a style switcher inside one file, so you can load one, two, or all four onto the device and treat them as different notebooks.

Made for the Supernote Nomad and Manta

This version is sized for two Ratta screens, and you pick your device at checkout.

The Supernote Nomad (A6X2) and the older A6X share the smaller page at 119 by 159 millimetres. That’s the A6-class screen, and the notebook is drawn to fill it at native size so nothing is scaled, letterboxed, or cropped. The margins are set to stay clear of the floating toolbar whether you dock it on the left or the right, which is the thing that bites most imported PDFs on these devices.

The Supernote Manta (A5X2) gets the larger page at 163 by 217 millimetres. Same notebook structure, same five pages per entry, same four page styles, just drawn for the A5 screen so the ruling spacing and the toolbar clearance match that panel instead of being stretched from the Nomad file.

A version for the original Supernote A5X is on the way. Until then, don’t buy the Manta file hoping it will land cleanly on an A5X. The screens are close but not the same, and we only sell the sizes we’ve actually cut.

The same notebook is drawn for other tablets too, so if you also use another device, look at the Kindle Scribe, reMarkable, and Quaderno versions, each cut to that device’s own page size.

Which of our Supernote notebooks to pick

We draw five notebooks for Supernote, and they differ in how the pages are carved up rather than in how they look. This one is the general purpose choice, so if you’re not sure which you want, it’s the safe start.

Pick the Classic Notebook when you want one long notebook with generous room per entry. A hundred entries at five pages each covers a year of most people’s note-taking, and the four page styles mean you aren’t locked into a ruling on day one.

Pick the Multi-Section Notebook when you’re running several separate streams and want them kept apart. It splits 1,000 pages into ten named sections, each with its own index, which is the right shape when work notes, study notes, and personal notes shouldn’t share a contents page.

Pick the Cornell Notes Digital Notebook when the page itself needs to do some of the thinking. Its 200 pages each carry a cue column, a notes block, and a summary band, which is the format built for lectures and reading you plan to revisit.

Pick the Business Meeting Notebook if most of your writing happens in meetings, since its 200 pages are laid out around attendees, agenda, notes, and action items instead of a plain ruling.

Pick the Bullet Journal if you work in short logged entries rather than long pages. It’s 200 dot grid pages set up for rapid logging.

They all share the same tap-to-jump navigation, so whichever you start with, the way you move around it will feel the same.

Getting it onto your Supernote

After checkout you get four downloads, one per page style. Grab the ones you want on a computer first, since they’re a few megabytes each and you’ll want them somewhere you can find them again.

From there the usual routes work: copy the PDFs over USB into the Document folder, drop them through Supernote Partner, or sync them in via the cloud services you already have set up on the device. Once a file is on the tablet it shows up as its own notebook, and your handwriting is saved into the document as you write.

If you use Digest, the linked structure still holds. The breadcrumbs and the contents rows are standard PDF links, not a custom format, so they survive the usual import path.

What you get at checkout

One purchase, four PDF downloads for the device you pick, and no subscription or expiry. The files are yours to keep and to re-download, and you can load them onto your own devices as many times as you need. If you fill a notebook, download a fresh copy and start again on a clean 500 pages.

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