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Weekly Manual Sync: Keep Paper + iPad Notes Searchable with WriteScan

Published: 2025-10-31 Category: Study Habits / Backup / Tags

Paper for practice, iPad for lectures—WriteScan keeps the hybrid workflow searchable if you commit to a weekly sync. Here’s a 90-minute weekend plan plus tag templates and archiving tips.

Weekday Rules

  • Paper notes: Scan the same day, tag with subject + #paper-note.
  • iPad notes: Flag important pages, save exports for the weekend.
  • Shared tag schema: e.g. #Economics #ProjectA #needs-review.

Weekend 90-Minute Plan

Minutes Task
15 Export GoodNotes/Notability pages as PNG → import, title, tag in WriteScan
30 Clean OCR text for paper scans, add Markdown reflections / TODO
15 Resolve duplicates, align tags, delete noise
15 Push key summaries to Notion/Obsidian, plan next week
15 Tag old material with #archive to lighten search results

Title & Tag Template

  • Title: {Subject}_{Medium}_{YYYY-MM-DD}
  • Medium tags: #iPad-note / #paper-note
  • Status tags: #needs-review / #submitted / #archive

Archiving at Semester End

  1. Filter out #archive and export summaries + highlight images to PDF.
  2. Store PDFs in cloud drives or team folders.
  3. In WriteScan, apply #archive to old notes so daily searches stay lean.

Weekly Checklist

  • □ Paper notes scanned same day
  • □ iPad pages exported/imported
  • □ Titles/tags follow the naming rule
  • □ Markdown summary updated with learnings / questions / review date
  • □ Old notes moved to #archive

Hybrid Notes, Unified Search

Weekly manual syncs keep paper and iPad notes equally discoverable. Start small with WriteScan’s free tier, upgrade to Pro (200 pages / month) once the archive grows.

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