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Writing and the editor2 min readUpdated October 12, 2026

Choose paper, page size and orientation

The five rulings, A4 or Letter, portrait or landscape, and where the defaults for new notebooks live.

Every page in a notebook is a real page size, so what you export is exactly what you wrote on.

Paper

Five rulings: plain, lined, grid, dotted and graph. Lined paper has a margin rule down the left the way a printed pad does. Graph paper is a fine grid with a heavier line every fifth cell. Change the paper from the notebook's menu and every page in it follows.

Step by stepOn desktop
1Open the notebook's menu in the editor header.
2Choose Paper, then the ruling you want.
3Every page in the notebook follows.
Step by stepOn mobile
1In the notebook, tap the menu in the header.
2Choose Paper.
3Pick a ruling.
4Every page in the notebook follows.

Page size and orientation

A4 or Letter, portrait or landscape, both from the notebook's menu. Changing either moves every page to the new shape and the ink is laid back onto it, so a page written in portrait is still a page in landscape.

A notebook that was built from a PDF keeps the document's own page size instead, and the size and orientation items leave the menu, because the pages have to match the document under them.

Step by stepOn desktop
1Choose Page size or Orientation in the same menu.
2The pages take the new shape, and the ink is laid back onto them.
Step by stepOn mobile
1In the same menu, choose Page size or Orientation.
2Pick Landscape.
3The pages turn, with the ink laid back onto them.

Defaults for new notebooks

Settings, Notes, then the Handwriting section: the paper, page size and orientation chosen there are what a new notebook opens with. These defaults sync, so a notebook made on the phone and one made on the desktop start on the same paper. The choice inside a notebook is its own and does not change the defaults.

Step by stepOn desktop
1In Settings, Notes, the Handwriting section sets the paper, page size and orientation new notebooks open with.
2A new notebook, from the New Note button or its menu, starts on them.
Step by stepOn mobile
1In Settings, Notes, tap Paper under Handwriting.
2Pick the paper new notebooks open on.

Dark mode

The sheet turns dark with the app and the automatic ink turns white, so a page written at night reads in the morning. Ink in a colour you picked keeps its colour.

Typed notes

Text notes have pages of their own: Pages under Page setup, in the same Notes tab, sets them out on A4 or Letter sheets. It is kept apart from a notebook's page size, so changing one leaves the other as it is. See Write on pages.

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