What is the fastest way to get a PDF onto a Boox tablet?

BooxDrop, if the tablet and the computer are on the same Wi-Fi. Open BooxDrop on the device, type the address it shows into a browser on your computer, and drag the file into the page. No cable, no account, no app to install on the computer. If they are not on the same network, sign in at push.boox.com with the same account as the tablet and send the file that way.

Which app opens a PDF planner on a Boox?

NeoReader, the built-in reader, which is where internal links work. The Notes app is for handwritten notebooks and is not where a planner belongs. If a third-party reader has taken over as the default, open the file from the Library or the file manager and choose NeoReader explicitly, or the links may not behave.

Why does tapping my planner sometimes turn the page instead of following the link?

Because NeoReader maps parts of the screen to page-turn taps, and those zones are configurable. A tap that lands next to a link rather than on it reads as a page turn. Aim slightly more carefully, and if it keeps happening near the edges, open the reader's tap-zone settings and shrink or disable the zones you keep hitting.

I jumped to a month and now I am lost. Is there a back button?

Yes. NeoReader keeps a Prev View control that returns you to the page you jumped from, which is the single most useful button in a hyperlinked planner. Tap the center of the screen to summon the reader chrome and you will find it. Learning where it lives makes month-to-week-to-day navigation feel like a browser rather than a maze.

Getting a PDF planner onto a Boox: BooxDrop, USB, and the reader settings that matter

Boox runs Android, which means more ways in than any other e-ink tablet and more places to get lost. BooxDrop over Wi-Fi, USB, cloud apps, then the NeoReader settings that decide how well your planner links behave.

2026-08-07· 4 min read

BooxTransfer guides

Boox tablets run Android, and that shapes everything about this guide. There are more ways to move a file onto a Note Air or a Go 10.3 than onto any competing device, including every cloud app on the Play Store. The cost of that flexibility is that no two Boox owners do it the same way, and the reader has enough settings to make the same planner feel great or fiddly.

Here is the short path, then the settings that change how a planner behaves.

Route 1: BooxDrop over Wi-Fi (start here)

BooxDrop is Onyx’s local transfer tool, and for a one-off planner it is the least friction of anything.

On the tablet, open BooxDrop (it lives in the Apps drawer).
It shows a local address.
Type that address into a browser on your computer, on the same Wi-Fi.
Drag the PDF onto the page.

If the two devices are not on the same network, the online version works instead: sign in at push.boox.com with the account the tablet uses and send the file from there.

Route 2: USB

Plug in with USB-C and the tablet mounts as an Android device over MTP. Windows shows it under Devices and Drives. macOS does not speak MTP natively, so install a free client such as OpenMTP or Android File Transfer, and the folder tree appears there instead. Drop the PDF somewhere you will remember, then eject.

If the file does not show up in the Library right away, open it once from the built-in file manager. That is usually all it takes.

Route 3: any cloud app you already use

This is the Android advantage. Install Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, or whatever you use from the Play Store, and download the planner on the device like you would on a phone. Onyx also ships its own account sync and a BOOX Assistant phone app. All of these are fine. None is better than BooxDrop for a single file.

Open it in NeoReader, not Notes

Boox has two ways to write on a page and they are not interchangeable. Notes is for handwritten notebooks. NeoReader is the document reader, and it is the only one that follows a PDF’s internal links.

Onyx’s own documentation covers link support in the reader, and planner sellers demo tap-to-navigate on the current Note Air, so this is well-trodden ground. Two things make it noticeably better:

Find the Prev View control. After you tap from a month grid into a week, Prev View takes you back where you came from. Tap the middle of the screen to bring up the reader chrome, and note where it sits. In a linked planner you will use it constantly.
Tap links with your finger. Pen behavior across Boox models is not something we have confirmed on hardware, and the sellers who ship Boox planners advise a read-only mode for tapping and a write mode for the stylus. Finger for navigation is the habit that works everywhere.

The two settings that decide how it feels

Tap zones. NeoReader turns pages when you tap certain regions, and those regions are user-configurable. On a planner with tabs near an edge, a near-miss becomes a page turn instead of a jump. If that gets annoying, shrink or switch off the zones you keep hitting. Whether the side zones swallow taps meant for edge links is something we have not been able to test on hardware, so treat it as a knob to try rather than a known fault.

Fit mode. The reader offers fit-to-screen, fit-to-width, and a manual crop. A PDF built at the panel’s own aspect ratio needs none of them. A letter-sized file needs all of them and still wastes space. The current color Note Air line is 1860×2480 in its black-and-white layer, the older black-and-white Note Air3 is 1404×1872, and the Go 10.3 matches the color line’s geometry. Those are different shapes, so “a Boox planner” is not one file.

Color, if you have a Kaleido panel

The Note Air color models put a 150 ppi color layer over a 300 ppi black-and-white one. Text and hairlines stay crisp because they live in the black-and-white layer; color fills are softer and slightly grainy up close. Accent color on a planner reads best as blocks and headers rather than thin colored rules. If you own a black-and-white Boox, none of this applies, and a well-made planner should be readable either way.

The 30-second version

BooxDrop for the transfer, NeoReader for the file, finger taps for links, Prev View to get back. Check the tap zones if near-misses turn pages. Make sure the planner was built for your model’s pixel dimensions, because the Boox line does not share one screen size.

That last part is the one worth checking before anything else. Planned Pages generates to the exact panel geometry of each current Boox writing tablet, and it is free while we are in early access, so you can put a real year on your own device and judge the tap targets yourself.

If you would rather see how a linked planner earns its place day to day, here is the routine.