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Boox Note Air 4 and Go 10.3 templates: NeoReader settings for linked PDFs

By Graphite Planner · Last updated 8 October 2026

The Boox Note Air4 C and the Boox Go 10.3 share a 10.3 inch 3:4 screen, so the same planner file fits both. Whether its links work depends less on the tablet than on how you open the PDF. This article covers the file to use, the NeoReader settings that matter for a hyperlinked planner, and when a template in the Notes app is the better choice.

Two tablets, one page size

The figures come from Boox's product pages for the Note Air4 C and the Go 10.3. Both screens are 3:4 portrait, the same shape and size as the page of the Large 3:4 planner, which is drawn at 10.3 inches. On either tablet the page fills the screen at its real size, with no scaling at all: a 6 mm button measures 6 mm on the glass.

The colour screen of the Note Air4 C has one more consequence. Its black and white layer has twice the resolution of its colour layer. A greyscale planner is drawn only in black and greys, so it uses the full 300 ppi, and thin lines stay sharp. The Go 10.3 has no front light, so it reads best in daylight or under a lamp.

Opening the planner in NeoReader

1. Download the PDF and unzip it. Copy it to the Boox by USB, BooxDrop or Push, into an ordinary folder, not into noteTemplate.
2. Open it from the library. PDFs open in NeoReader, the built-in reader.
3. Write with the handwriting tool, and follow links with a fingertip.

NeoReader settings that matter for a linked PDF

NeoReader is built for reading as much as for writing, and several of its reading features change the page in ways that a planner does not survive. The rule is simple: show the page exactly as it was drawn.

• Keep the original layout. Reflow and Article mode reset the text of a fixed-layout PDF so that it reads like an ebook. That helps with a report; in a planner the tabs, calendar squares and their links no longer line up with anything.
• Don't crop the margins. Cropping zooms the page to cut away white space. A planner's month tabs sit at the outer edge, so a crop can cut them off or push them against the bezel, and every tap target moves.
• One page at a time, fitted to the screen. Scrolling and two-page views make each page smaller and break the one screen, one page rhythm that a planner's arrows rely on.
• A refresh mode that suits you. A sharper, slower refresh mode keeps thin lines crisp while you write; faster modes help when you jump through many pages but leave more ghosting. Links work in all of them.

None of these settings does lasting harm. If a page looks wrong, switch back to the original view, fitted to the screen.

Writing and tapping

In NeoReader the pen draws while the handwriting tool is active, and in that state a pen tap on a link leaves a dot instead of jumping. Tap the link with a finger, or leave the tool, tap, and pick it up again. Most owners settle on the pen for writing and a finger for moving around.

Your handwriting is saved into the PDF itself. Boox's post 5 Tips for Taking In-Book Notes with BOOX notes that PDF markups are embedded into the original file. That makes backups and moving the file between devices easy, and it is a good reason to keep a clean copy of the planner on your computer before you start writing.

The handwriting toolbar can be docked on one side. Put it on the side away from the month tabs: Graphite files keep that strip free of links, and the left-handed files swap sides. Boox's NeoReader guide describes the other reading tools if you want them.

When a Notes template is the better choice

The Notes app takes page templates from the noteTemplate folder as PNG images. For both tablets, make the image 1860 by 2480 pixels in portrait, the size of the screen, so that nothing is scaled. Copy it into noteTemplate, open a notebook and pick it among the custom templates.

A Notes template is a picture, so it has no links, which is why a hyperlinked planner belongs in NeoReader. A long-running request in the Boox Help Center community, Import full PDF templates with hyperlinks, asks for exactly that missing feature. Use Notes templates for pages you repeat and fill in where they are: a meeting sheet, a lined page with your own margin, a daily page you never need to jump from. Boox templates: PDF planners in NeoReader and templates in Notes compares the two apps in more detail.

Troubleshooting

The tabs are cut off, or the page is zoomed in.

Turn off cropping and fit the page to the screen.

The planner turned into flowing text.

Reflow or Article mode is on. Go back to the original page view.

The pen draws on the buttons.

Tap with a finger, or leave the handwriting tool first.

My template looks soft in Notes.

Make the PNG exactly 1860 by 2480 pixels, so it is not scaled.