Get more out of it in 28 minutes.

Foundations

Fifteen minutes here saves the term.

1. Give every class a bin

   2 min

   One place per class, so nothing has to be filed twice.

   • 1.Open Library and make a bin for each class you are taking or teaching.
   • 2.Create notebooks inside the bin — one per unit works better than one per term.
   • 3.Drag a notebook between bins whenever a class reorganises; nothing is lost.

   Bins are the only filing decision Casebound asks you to make. Everything after this — contents, page numbers, search — builds itself from what you write.

   Open your library

2. Let the contents build themselves

   3 min

   A navigable table of contents without maintaining one.

   • 1.Give a page a title and it starts a new section in the contents.
   • 2.Leave the next page's title empty and it continues that section — label it if you want it named.
   • 3.Press / anywhere on a page for headings, lists, tables, images, maths and study cards.

   A titled page starts a section; an untitled one continues it. That single rule is what keeps long notebooks navigable without anyone maintaining an outline by hand.

3. Let Recall Lane do the revising

   3 min

   Spaced review built from work you have already done.

   • 1.Highlight a sentence worth keeping, or drop in a study card with the / menu.
   • 2.Open Recall Lane; anything you marked is waiting, oldest and most overdue first.
   • 3.Answer Forgot, Hard, Good or Easy — Space reveals a card, 1–4 grade it.

   Nothing here is authored twice. A highlight is already you saying “this matters”, so it becomes the prompt; every card keeps a link back to the page it came from. The schedule stays on your device.

   Open Recall Lane

4. Find the thought again

   2 min

   Search that lands you on the page where the thinking happened.

   • 1.Press Ctrl/⌘ K to search across every notebook you have.
   • 2.Press Ctrl/⌘ F to find and replace inside the page you are on.
   • 3.Open the contents panel to jump between sections of a long notebook.

   Try search

Presenting

Casebound presents from the notebook itself — no deck to rebuild.

1. Smart Readout

   3 min

   Reveal one sentence at a time, at reading pace.

   • 1.Start presenting, then turn on Smart Readout in the top bar (or press R).
   • 2.Press → to type in the next sentence. Press → again while it is still animating to finish it instantly.
   • 3.Press ← to step back a sentence, and use the speed pill to set the pace from 0.75× to 2×.

   The room reads the sentence you are on instead of racing to the bottom of the page. Reduced-motion settings are respected: the sentence appears whole rather than typing.

2. Emphasis Ink

   1 min

   Circle a word mid-sentence without touching the document.

   • 1.Press E while presenting, then draw straight on the page.
   • 2.Marks fade on their own after a few seconds — there is no eraser to find.
   • 3.Press E again to put the pen away and hand clicks back to the page.

   Ink is drawn in a layer above the page. The notebook is never modified, so nothing you draw while presenting can be saved by accident.

3. Audience Follow

   3 min

   The room follows on their own devices, at their own pace.

   • 1.While presenting, open Follow and start a session.
   • 2.Show the QR code or share the link — nobody needs an account to watch.
   • 3.Viewers stay in step with your page and sentence, and can turn a page to read on their own, then rejoin with one tap.

   This is the accessibility feature disguised as a presentation feature. Anyone who reads at a different pace can fall behind deliberately and catch up without asking you to wait.

4. Presenter View

   2 min

   Your notes and what is coming next, where only you can see them.

   • 1.Plug in a second screen. The Presenter view button appears in the top bar only when one is genuinely attached.
   • 2.Click it, then drag the window to your other display.
   • 3.You get the next sentence, the next page, an elapsed timer and the controls; the audience sees only the page.

   A projector that mirrors your laptop counts as one screen, which is why the button stays hidden — opening notes there would put them on the wall.

For teachers

Distribute, differentiate and respond without leaving the notebook.

1. Send work that arrives with its context

   3 min

   Students open the assignment already in the right bin.

   • 1.Create a class, then add students by invitation or join code.
   • 2.Build an assignment from a notebook and distribute it to the class.
   • 3.Offer supported variants so a student who needs a different version gets it without being singled out.

   Open classes

2. Respond beside the sentence

   2 min

   Comments anchored to the passage they are about.

   • 1.Open a student's submission from the review queue.
   • 2.Select the passage you are responding to and leave feedback there.
   • 3.Return the work; the student sees your comment next to their own words.

   Open assignments

Comfort and safety

The settings worth changing on day one.

1. Make it easier to read

   2 min

   Reading comfort is a setting, not a diagnosis.

   • 1.In Settings, try the dyslexia-friendly reading font and the high-contrast mode.
   • 2.Turn on distraction-free by default if a full page of chrome pulls your attention.
   • 3.Use read aloud on any page, and set the speech rate to something you can follow.

   Open settings

2. Know where your work lives

   2 min

   Local first, cloud for recovery.

   • 1.Pages autosave to this device as you type, so a dropped connection costs nothing.
   • 2.With an account, work syncs to the cloud and comes back if the device does not.
   • 3.Export a notebook or a full backup at any time from the notebook menu.

   If the same notebook is edited in two places, Casebound keeps a conflict copy rather than picking a winner. You will never lose the version you did not choose.

   Review trust & accessibility

Every keyboard shortcut

The same list the editor shows with Ctrl/⌘ /.