A sample edition
Every morning at 06:30 a personal newspaper lands on my reMarkable: my day, the news I follow, tech and science, and the best ideas from my newsletters. I read it with a pen before the phone comes out.
The first screen of my day used to be my phone. I wanted the same information on paper: my day, the part of the world I follow and the best of my newsletters, read with a pen before the phone comes out. The system already knew my calendar, my tasks and my reading, so the paper could be written from it every night.
Every night my Mac takes a small snapshot of what the paper needs: the calendar, the day’s tasks and reminders, the daily briefing and the latest newsletters. The snapshot is encrypted before it leaves the machine. At 06:30 a scheduled routine in the cloud reads it together with about 50 news feeds grouped into nine lenses, with Southeast Asia first, and writes the edition: one priority for the day, the top three, a checklist, the calendar with prep notes, then the world, then tech, science and health, then ideas from my subscriptions. A renderer lays it out at the exact size of the reMarkable screen, in grayscale, and checks that nothing overflows a page. The PDF goes to the tablet and the snapshot is deleted.
On weekdays the paper runs four pages. Saturday adds a page of insights from the week’s newsletters, and Sunday adds a weekly review with three writing prompts. Every page leaves ruled space for notes. The pages below come from a sample edition with invented content.