iPad, iPhone and e-ink, side by side

One ledger · three kinds of screen

The same day page, on paper-like ink and on glass.

Ledgable is one app on an e-ink tablet and on an iPad, an iPhone and an Apple Watch. The pages are the same files, the rooms have the same names, and a note written on one shows up on the others. Below, each room on a Boox Go 6 beside the same room on an iPad.

Android · Boox, Bigme, any e-ink tablet
iPadOS · Apple Pencil
iOS · the phone in your pocket
watchOS · capture on the wrist

The day page

Hours down the left, tasks and notes down the right, a doodle at the bottom. On e-ink you write with the tablet’s own pen; on the iPad with Apple Pencil. Either way the strokes land in the same day file, so a schedule written on the tablet at breakfast is on the iPad by lunch.

The day page on a Boox Go 6
Boox Go 6 Ink on paper-like e-ink.
The same day page on an iPad
iPad The same page, the pencil tray at the bottom.

The papers a day can wear

Every page of a day can wear a different sheet: lines, a grid, dots, a pickings board for what you clipped, gratitude, a synthesize page where the assistant writes back. The sheets are the same on both.

The gratitude page on the iPad
iPad Gratitude: three things, the best thing, a doodle.
The pickings board on the iPad
iPad Pickings — the board your clippings land on.

Daily — All Stars and All Picks

What you starred while reading gathers on All Stars; what you clipped gathers on All Picks. Both are pages of the day, so they sit on the walk from the day page outward, and both exist on both platforms.

The Daily folder on the Boox
Boox Go 6 The Daily folder in the Hub.
All Stars on the iPad
iPad All Stars, the day’s starred pieces by kind.

Notes

A classic notebook on both: named notes, dated notes, folders as a lens over one flat list, tags and links harvested from what you wrote.

A lined note on the Boox
Boox Go 6 Real strokes on a lined sheet.
A lined page on the iPad
iPad The same sheet, Apple Pencil.

A grid page on the iPad
iPad Squared, for diagrams.
All Picks on the iPad
iPad All Picks — dotted, where clippings gather.

Incoming — your feeds, in the same reader

Point both at the same feed server and the unread list is the same list. Read on one, it is read on the other. Star it, and it is on All Stars everywhere.

Incoming on the Boox
Boox Go 6 Incoming.
All Feeds on the iPad
iPad All Feeds, the almanac strip as the date filter.

Mail

Your own mail accounts, read in one inbox on either device. Star a letter into a task, send it to All Picks, reply by hand or by keyboard, or send a page of notes as an email with the picture inline.

Mail on the Boox
Boox Go 6 A letter and its rail of verbs.
All Mail on the iPad
iPad All Mail, every account in one list.

Desk — the people

A rolodex that syncs between devices, with a CRM tab when a site is connected. Every contact reads as a correspondence: all the letters in and out with that person, and a compose door on it.

The Desk folder on the Boox
Boox Go 6 Desk: Contacts, Correspondence, Boards & Tasks, Event Attendees.
Contacts on the iPad
iPad Contacts, Local and CRM.

Bookshelf

Books and comics on the same shelf, progress synced between devices, the next comic in a series fetched ahead of you on a tablet with the room for it.

The Bookshelf on the Boox
Boox Go 6 The shelf.
The Bookshelf on the iPad
iPad The same shelf, covers and all.

A book open in the reader on the iPad
iPad The reader.
An article open on the iPad
iPad An article from your feeds, in the same quiet reading.

Settings, the same on both

Sync, feeds, mail and sites each get one room. Fill it once, and the other devices follow through sync.

Sync settings on the iPad
iPad Sync: WebDAV or Google Drive, the same folder the tablet writes.
Sites settings on the iPad
iPad Sites: your WordPress sites, the active one marked.

The small screens

The phone carries the whole day page, fitted to its width, and everything else the iPad has. The watch carries the parts a wrist is for: one big Capture button, today’s tasks to tick, the mail pile read aloud, and the spoken lens that reads articles and letters to you on a walk.

The day page on an iPhone
iPhone The day, fitted to the phone.
The Capture page on Apple Watch
Apple Watch Capture: tap, talk, it lands on today’s page.

What is honestly different

Only on e-ink

The tablet’s own pen, drawn by the panel itself, with no lag at all. A calligraphy nib, the lasso that lives on the pen, hand-written tasks that stay ink. Home-screen widgets that draw your actual handwriting. The device left on your desk is the notebook, open at today.

Only on Apple

Apple Pencil with pressure and the system pencil tray. Home-screen widgets for schedule, tasks, feeds, mail, the pile and the book you are reading, sized to whatever space you give them. An Apple Watch. Your device calendar and reminders wired straight into the day page.

Everything else is the same app: the same Hub, the same rooms, the same files.

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Ledgable — cozy and transgressive

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