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Course Archives Made Easy: Merge iPad and Paper Notes in WriteScan

Published: 2025-10-31 Category: Study Notes / iPad / Backup

Lecture notes on the iPad, review drills on paper. WriteScan can host both, provided you export GoodNotes pages weekly and scan paper notes the same day. Here’s how to keep everything searchable by course.

Design Your Archive Structure

  • Title pattern: Economics_Seminar_iPad_2025-10-30, Economics_Review_Paper_2025-10-31.
  • Tags: #Economics (course), #iPad-note / #paper-note (medium), #exam / #needs-review (status).

Import iPad Notes Weekly

  1. Export focus pages from GoodNotes as PNG and save to Photos.
  2. “Add from Photos” in WriteScan, apply the course + medium tags.
  3. Comment with quick summaries or links (“Solve problems on paper page 12”).

Capture Paper Notes Daily

  1. Scan the day’s problem sets in WriteScan, tag #paper-note.
  2. Use Markdown to extract formulas, proof outlines, mistakes to fix.
  3. Export PNG back to GoodNotes if you want everything on the iPad as well.

Weekend 30-Minute Checklist

Time Task
10 min Import GoodNotes PNGs → tag
10 min Scan paper notes → tidy Markdown
10 min Review tags #needs-review, set next week’s goals

Unified Course Archives Start Here

Manual PNG exports are worth the effort when everything lands in one searchable hub. Start with the free 10-page plan, and move to Pro (200 pages / month) when you want full course coverage.

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