Welcome to PlanIT by CT Designs, where digital elegance meets effortless organisation. We’ve provided answers to your most common questions, along with video tutorials to help you get the very best from your new digital planning notebook. Have more questions? Reach out anytime - we’re here to help make your journey seamless.
FAQs and Tutorials
About the PlanIT by CT Designs Collection
The products in the PlanIT by CT Designs collection are an exclusive collection of digital planning notebooks, thoughtfully crafted to streamline routines, boost productivity, and help you feel in control of your day.
Each notebook is a downloadable, interactive template, designed for use with PDF annotation apps like Goodnotes . Once uploaded to your preferred app on a tablet or phone, you can handwrite or type directly onto the pages - just like paper, but completely digital and clutter-free. Want to insert images or highlight important notes? You can do all that too, and if you make a mistake, simply use the eraser tool. It’s planning made beautifully simple.
With each notebook in the collection focusing on a specific purpose, from meal planning and fitness tracking to recipe organisation or budgeting, you can stay organised across various aspects of your life. With multiple colour options available, it’s easy to mix, match, and build a personalised collection that suits your lifestyle. With new designs added regularly, you’ll always have fresh ways to plan and stay on track.
Built-in hyperlinked menus, pages, and tab dividers make it easy to navigate through different sections of the notebooks. No more scrolling or swiping through pages, just tap to instantly jump between sections and pages of the notebook.
Depending on your chosen app, your digital book may be accessible across multiple devices. Please note: The handwriting feature (using a stylus or Apple Pencil) is typically only available when using a tablet/iPad. While you can still type and interact with the products on your phone or computer, handwriting input may not be supported on those devices. Be sure to check your app’s compatibility for the best experience!
Our digital planning notebooks are thoughtfully crafted to streamline routines, boost productivity, and help you feel in control of your day. Designed to look, feel, and function like a physical notebook - but with all the benefits of digital functionality.
Here’s what sets them apart:
- Beautiful, Book-Like Design: Each notbook features a realistic leather-look book cover, gold ring binders, and tab dividers that give the feel of flipping through sections of a physical book. You can even choose a starting page design that showcases a closed leather-look book cover for that satisfying “book opening” effect.
- Built-In Navigation: Forget endless scrolling or page swiping - our notebooks include clickable menus, tabs, and pages that let you move through your notebook with ease.
- Customisation Options: Personalise your notebook by choosing from 8 gold ring binder styles, adding gold labels to the leather-look front cover, and selecting your preferred starting page design. Some notebooks come with alternative page layout options, allowing you to customise the template style on each page to suit your needs.
- Thoughtfully Designed Templates: Each notebook includes meticulously designed templates to help you organise every area of life - from recipes and finances, to journaling, wellness tracking, and more. Our template layouts are clean, practical, and intentionally structured to make digital planning effortless and enjoyable.
No - all products in the PlanIT by CT Designs collection are digital downloads only.
They’re delivered as interactive PDF files designed for use on your iPad/tablet, phone and computer, within a PDF annotation app like Goodnotes or Notability. While the designs include leather-look covers, gold ring binders, and realistic tab dividers, these are purely visual elements to give your digital planning notebook the look and feel of a physical book.
No. Each of the pages contain thoughtfully designed templates - ready for you to add your own notes or content. You can view photos of the included templates on each product page on our website.
Using the PlanIT by CT Designs Collection
Yes you do. Our digital planning notebooks are interactive PDF templates that require a PDF annotation app, such as Goodnotes, Notability, Noteshelf, or Xodo, to function properly. These apps let you write, type, highlight, and navigate through your notebooks seamlessly. Without one, the hyperlinks and writing features won’t work as intended.
Please note: The handwriting feature (using a stylus or Apple Pencil) is typically only available when using a tablet/iPad. While you can still type and interact with the notebooks on your phone or computer, handwriting input may not be supported on those devices. Be sure to check your app’s compatibility for the best experience!
Yes! The PlanIT by CT Designs products are PDF files that can be used across multiple devices, including tablets, phones and computers - as long as your chosen PDF annotation app supports mobile use. Apps like Goodnotes and Notability have versions for multiple devices, letting you view, edit, and stay organised on the go or at home.
Please note: The handwriting feature (using a stylus or Apple Pencil) is typically only available when using a tablet/iPad. While you can still type and interact with the notebooks on your phone or computer, handwriting input may not be supported on those devices.
Be sure to check your app’s compatibility for the best experience!
To ensure the hyperlinks and navigation work correctly, we strongly recommend not adding deleting or moving pages from your notebook.
Each product contains built-in hyperlinks that are carefully mapped to specific page locations. Adding, removing, or moving pages can break these links and affect the overall functionality of the notebook.
The only exceptions are:
- The Welcome Page (this can be deleted once you've read it)
- The blank page provided for selecting your starting page design (this can be deleted if you would prefer the Index Page as your starting page)
For all other pages, we recommend keeping them in place to maintain full functionality.
If you accidentally add or delete a page, and it can’t be undone, you’ll need to set up a new notebook and manually copy your content across from the old version.
Features and Functionality
Absolutely! All of our notebooks come in a a choice of colours for the leather-look notebook covers, various gold ring binder designs, stylish starting pages, and gold labels which you can add to the front of the notebook covers. All of these options allow you to build a design that matches your unique style.
Your notebook comes with stunning starting page designs, each showcasing your leather-look notebook cover in beautifully styled scenes. Adding one of these designs as the starting page of your notebook, gives it a refined, realistic touch, creating the feeling of starting with a closed notebook which then opens to reveal the inside pages.
Elevate the starting page design even further by adding one of the elegant gold labels to the front of notebook cover, giving it a personalised finishing touch.
When you open your notebook for the first time in your chosen app, you’ll see a Welcome Page with key steps to help you get started, including how to add and customise your starting page designs.
Here’s a quick guide:
- Where to find them: The starting page designs are included in your download folder as PNG images.
- How to insert your favourite design: Simply add the image onto the blank page provided.
- How to customise: Elevate the starting page design even further by adding one of the elegant gold label images to the front of the notebook cover, giving it a personalised finishing touch.
The process for adding images may vary depending on which PDF annotation app you’re using. For the best results, we suggest checking the user guide or support resources for your chosen app to follow the correct steps.
Yes! All of our digital planning notebooks include hyperlinked index pages, tab dividers and pages, for seamless navigation, making it easy to jump between pages and sections of the notebook.
To ensure the hyperlinks and navigation work correctly, we strongly recommend not adding deleting or moving pages from your notebook, with the exception of the Welcome Page, or the blank page provided for starting page designs.
Yes, and we would highly recommend it! Most PDF annotation apps support this function and it is a great way to personalise the pages in your notebooks. For example, this feature is perfect to use with the Digital Recipe Book so that you can add photos or screenshots of recipes.
The exact steps for adding photos and images will vary depending on the app you’re using. Be sure to check the instructions or help guides for your selected app (e.g., Goodnotes, Notability, etc.) to learn how to add images correctly.
Purchasing and Support
Once you complete your purchase, you’ll see a download link on the order confirmation page. You’ll also receive an email with the same download link so you can access your digital files anytime. If you don’t see the email, check your spam or junk folder, or reach out to us, and we’ll be happy to help!
We are here to help! Contact us through our website or email us, and we’ll help resolve any issues as quickly as possible.
Importing your digital planning notebook depends on the PDF annotation app you’re using. Each app has its own steps for importing files, so we recommend checking the instructions or help guides provided by your chosen app for the best results.
As our products are digital and delivered instantly, we’re unable to offer refunds.
However, your satisfaction is important to us, so if you run into any issues, please reach out and we’ll do everything we can to help.
Whilst great care is taken during the development of our products, occasional errors or issues may occur due to the nature of digital files and varying device setups. We’re always here to help resolve any concerns and ensure you get the most from your purchase.
We kindly ask that you keep your files private to help support our small business. If you know someone who’d love our products, feel free to share our website with them so they can begin their own digital journey!
Digital Recipe Book
No - all recipe pages have blank recipe templates, ready for you to add your own favourite recipes. You can handwrite or type the recipe details onto the page, or use the alternative page layout to add a photo of a recipe - perfect for adding a screenshot of an online recipe, or a photo of a handwritten family recipe.
Yes you can! The Digital Recipe Book includes an alternative recipe page, designed to add a photo of a recipe, whether that be a screenshot of an online recipe, or a photo of a handwritten or printed recipe.
Great question! In your download folder, you’ll find two images for the alternative layout. One image is a new template to place over the left-hand page, and the other is a blank page to place over the right-hand page. Simply add these images onto the recipe page that you would like to modify.
Video Tutorials
Coming soon!
While we put the finishing touches on our tutorials, take a look at the Recipe Book in action to see how effortlessly it works on your tablet.
We also share product walkthroughs and helpful content on social media, so be sure to follow us for updates and inspiration!
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out - we’re always happy to help.
