Setup guide

How to put a PDF planner or notebook on your Daylight

The Daylight DC-1 has a Live Paper screen, a reflective LCD, not e-ink, with a Wacom pen and full Google Play. The planner works there inside a PDF app such as Xodo, and its 3:4 page fits the screen exactly in portrait.

1. Pick the right file

Use the Large 3:4 files in an app. The DC-1 screen is 10.5 inches, 1600 by 1200 pixels, which is 3:4 when you hold it upright, so the page fills the screen with no bars.

Then choose the edition and the hand:

These editions are for the planner. Notebook files are named by paper and hand instead, for example dot_right or meeting_left.

2. Copy it to your tablet

1. Download the file and unzip it if it came in a zip file.
2. Download it straight on the DC-1, or copy it by USB, or save it to a cloud drive.
3. Install Xodo from Google Play and open the PDF in it.

3. Open it and follow the links

Xodo

1. Install Xodo PDF Reader & Editor from Google Play.
2. Open Xodo, tap the + button, choose Open file and pick the planner.
3. To follow a link, stay in View mode, the hand icon, and tap the link.
4. To write, open the menu at the top left, choose Annotate and pick the pen.
5. Xodo saves your changes into the PDF itself, automatically in most cases, according to its own guide.

Daylight also ships its own PDF reader for reading and annotating documents. Whether it follows links inside a PDF is not documented, so keep the planner in Xodo unless the free sample proves otherwise.

4. Write on the pages

The DC-1 comes with a passive Wacom EMR pen, and the screen runs at 60 Hz, so ink follows the pen smoothly. In Xodo, choose Annotate and the pen, and write.

What to check in the free sample

1. The page fills the screen with at most thin bars, and the smallest text is easy to read.
2. A tap on a link, such as a date or a button in the top bar, jumps to its page.
3. The pen writes on the page, and the ink is still there after you close the file and open it again.

If all three work, the full planner will behave the same way, because it is built from the same pages.

Keep the original PDF on your computer as a clean backup. To start over, or to begin a fresh notebook, copy it again under a new name.

5. If something looks wrong

A link does nothing, or my pen draws on the button.

In Xodo, switch to View mode, the hand icon, and tap again.

There are bars around the page.

Hold the DC-1 upright. In landscape the 3:4 page sits between wide bars.

Can I print it?

Yes, for your own personal use. Pages are sized for screens, so choose fit to page when printing.

The tabs are under my hand, or under the toolbar.

Switch between the _right and _left versions. The side opposite the tabs never has anything to tap.

I'd like Monday, or Sunday, as the first day of the week.

Use another planner edition: _intl_ and _intl12_ start on Monday, with a 24- or 12-hour clock; _us_ starts on Sunday.

6. How sure we are

Every model gets one of these labels, based on what owners, the maker and established reviewers have published. Nothing here is a guess dressed up as a test.

• Should work, not confirmedDC-1We have not tested this tablet: open the free sample first.

This guide is based on:

• Daylight: DC-1
• Liliputing: Daylight DC-1
• Xodo: how to use the Xodo mobile app
• Digital Planner B: importing a planner in Xodo

Guides for other tablets:

• reMarkable
• Supernote
• Boox
• Kindle Scribe
• Kobo
• viwoods
• iPad
• Bigme
• Meebook
• PocketBook
• Lenovo
• Huawei
• Xiaomi and Moaan
• TCL NXTPAPER
• Galaxy Tab