As a Nova Air 2 and Scribe user this came in very useful! Especially as my frustration over the closed garden nature of the Scribe is pushing me down the route of multiple Boox devices (Probably Nova + Go 10.3) This is *exactly* what I wanted to see - being an MDG user helped ;)

So helpful. You are such a good teacher. I love how you answer the question as I’m asking myself. Also just bought MDO. Keep up good work.

This function is just what I was looking for. I have multiple techs working across the middle of the country and receiving phone calls daily for scheduling.

Thank you for this super informative and useful tutorial video! The live sync demo is totally awesome! I use MDO 2023 on a daily basis. Highly recommended for anyone who wants a fantastic digital organiser.

Thanks, Voja. Good explanation of a convoluted process that should NEVER have been so complex. This is ANOTHER instance of Boox's operating system being BAD. I love the device - sort of - but this stuff drives us ALL crazy. The overhead involved in learning to get productive on the device is ridiculous. Android has a user interface; so does Windows; so does Apple's iPad & desktop OS's. They aren't identical in interface approach but they're pretty consistent. Boox looks like they decided to invent the UI from scratch without ever having seen anyone else's. Damn, it's frustrating. When a document is accessed from Boox devices or sent to a Boox device it's source directory path should be captured with it & be part of the header file (metadata) for the file. Should be transparent to the user. Making that work in future UI upgrades should be possible invisibly to the user. We can hope. I gather each new version of the Boox interface includes some minor changes that bring the UI a little closer to market standard. Let's hope they pick up the pace. Meanwhile, Voja's videos are extremely helpful. I'm subscribed & a fan.

Excellent Thanks !

👏👏 very useful. Thanks

Speaking of traps, pitfalls, and snakes, here is an edge-case I believe it would be interesting to test: Suppose you have the same document open on two or more devices, as you did in your demo. What happens if you make a change to the document on one device, *do not sync yet*, then make a change to the document on a different device, and only then activate the sync function on both devices? Do both changes get reflected on both devices? Does one of the updated versions override the other? I grant that there are probably a limited set of practical situations in which this would become relevant (limited but not zero-I could see it happening if, say, you and your spouse share a calendar or organizer for family events). In any case, as a matter of testing behaviour and exception handling, I had to dream it up.

Excellent explanation. Thank you.

Can't thank you more!

A possible reason to "hide" this synchronisation is the fact that you can not only synchronise your own documents but also the e-books that you bought. This could seriously affect the author's rights to the book. As stated: Basic Copyright Protection: By law, only the author, who is the owner of the copyright, has the right to reproduce or distribute the eBook, unless express permission has been granted. So the company and the user could risk lawsuits for making this possible. So I do understand that they are not keen to make that too easy to use.

Thank you so much Vojislav. I'm beginning to understand a little more about this BOOX Tab. I'm a musician and I have about 1500 music sheets and lyrics (pdf and jpg) that I would like to have in the BOOX Tab. I would like to make a list of the tunes I will play in a concert and to put some of these musicsheet in a folder, in the order that should be performed in concert. I have a turn pages pedal. Can you help me understand how to do this ?

Thanks for the great video! Very useful on helping me set up things up, or rather knowing I'd set my Google Drive and Dropbox up correctly so I could send myself off down a different rabbit hole trying to figure out how to get my Onyx sync back on. (Issue and Solution in a different comment in case anyone else needs it). I've been admiring Boox's ease of use in terms having the Google app store in their new almost phone ereader vs my Hisense A9 phone which doesn't, in terms of potentially recommending them to other people. I guess you could say this is a bit of a reality check that Boox still isn't exactly the easiest to use. XD Also I think I've gotten used to my phones, Hisense and Iphone alike, shooting me off towards the exact settings I need to streak if something is blocked or at least having that option. I can block/unblock things all day long if I want to, with just a quick trip to the main settings to flip a switch when needs change. Boox did not do that when trying to figure out how to turn the Onyx cloud sync back on, it wasn't even in the main menu or the notes settings but an individual notes settings of all places. Which okay kind of makes sense but I just spent three days, on and off, looking for it on my Air because I expected it to be in the main settings or main notes settings or some sort of 'main'. But anyway found it! Also just got my Tab Ultra and accidentally blocked the physical keyboard because I originally thought it was the default web browser asking for permissions and I didn't need the webbrowser, and then the keyboard seemingly randomly asked for audio permissions I didn't want to give or need and then I got the dreaded 'device doesn't have enough permissions to function' and realised in the default web browser probably the first time I'd used the physical keyboard and whoops that probably wasn't the browser asking for permission. Cue searching through the settings trying to find the physical keyboard permission settings and eventually doing all but a factory reset to get the keyboard working again because I couldn't find the permission settings. I've gotten so used to being able to flick permissions on and off as needed on my Hisense A9 that I just expect them to be there partially if it bricks a physical device specifically designed to work with that device like the keyboard cover that's literally connected to it. Just... Boox's stuff is amazing and let's you do lots of stuff, but yeah the setup process for edevices is not always the simplest in general and I will include my Hisense A9 in thatfor all that once I have things set up the way I want it works perfectly, it's just getting there can be a Process.

The fact I need to watch a video guide on how to sync things properly

Jajajaja thanks Indiana!

bro ur a fucking genius

any video you have to sync my markups from MDO to google drive? I don't have multiple boox devices, but want to access my notes on MDO from my phone and/or browser via google drive. Love the planner, thanks for making it!

Hi Voja, I just finished watching your Big Boox Guide (7 vidéos, right?), but I still have a concern whose answer I still didn't find in any of my searches here nor in Kit's or Brandon's videos (maybe I didn't really searched well...). As I'm about to order a Boox Note Air 2 Plus, I just want to know how we work with hand annotations and bookmarks on epubs specially. Can we make a research on these notes? Can we export them and how dos they look like on a computer? Did you make a video on this topic? Than you! Eliza

Since you use Autosync to also sync the pdfs (which will include the annotations), have you noticed any issues between the Onyx syn and the Autosync app? Overwriting each other, etc?

I believe this relates to documents synchronisation. Is this possible for notes synchronisation across devices? Thanks.

Thank you - ehat are the cloud storsges good for?

By "server" you mean like same wifi network or can I have a tablet in Iowa sync with a tablet in Nebraska and a tablet in Idaho and a table in North Dakota? And a tablet in KS?

Thank you Voja! Very helpful Boox "tips and tricks" video! You are saving a lot of time for Boox users and me personaly... Thank you again! I have some dificulties with Notes sync (Boox cloud) between TabX and Note Air (1). Maybe the problem is different screen resolution (1650x2200 vs 1404x1802)... Do you have some "tips and tricks" for Notes sync (and for different E-Ink boox screens) ?

I’m yet to buy a boox device. Cannot make up my mind though which one to get

Issue & Solution: I'd turned off Onyx cloud sync then couldn't figure out how to turn it back on through the main settings. I was getting a 'Onyx cloud sync has been turned off. Please turn on the sync switch first.' error when I try to bulk sync my notes with the cloud button beside the search button but it didn't give me a link to the settings area I needed to correct this. Tried opening some notes and syncing them individually and they were also giving me the onyx sync turned off message. Solution: In the Notes area open the third icon, square with writing and a pen, then go through to a note with a little sync blocked icon, long press on the note, it'll open the General settings tab, click on the Sync tab, there will be a bit down the bottom with 'Onyx Sync (Manual Sync is not supported when it is turned off)' turn that back on and follow the prompts. There should also be a list of syncing options eg. Dropbox, Google Drive and Onyx for you to tick. I think I flicked the previously mentioned Onyx permission on first but if that doesn't work try those instead. It also has a Sync and Accounts button in the syncing tab, so if you want to sync the note or a shortcut link to the Accounts main settings to add another syncing option that's there as well.

well, I still dont get why there is a "separate" scan mode? is it really only there to manage the sync feature? or does the scan mode doing something more? e. g. scanning many other physical locations to have a common view to all of them?

Wow! That's nuts! I just have 1 device and just want to have a back up in Google Drive. I managed to do the sync with the cloud, but the file is not in the cloud, only info about the notes and annotations. I have resolved the issue throuhg a third party FolderSync, that does a good job syncing both the files and PDF notes, but when I work with DJVU this is not working. The notes stay in the NeoReader only. Do you know how to embed annotations in DJVU (and add highlights in EPUB) so that during sync this would stay in the file? NeoReader seems to add things to PDF only and as for other formats it keeps the data separate.

Thanks for this explanation Voja. Love your MDO product. Could you consider explaining how Boox cloud storage works? As an example, my free storage shot up recently from 1GB to over 4GB out of my allotted 5GB. I have no idea why. When I look online, it says I have over 3GB in ‘other storage’. I have asked Boox how I can access this ‘other storage’ area in case I wanted to delete some of those files. I have asked them at least 10 times to explain it and they cannot seem to communicate that.

Is there an ability for apps on Boox to function the same way they would on other Android devices (like my phone)? Ex. using Google docs on my phone, I can see automated, live time updates on a different device (and so can my friend if it's a shared doc).

For some reason I thought MDO had to be synced through the Google Drive Autosync app. I modified the set up to mirror yours (not in the Drive Sync), but I do have a question of why MDO does not sync via Google Drive like other files.

Thank you Voja. Have a good day. Is there a difference between the US and European servers? I live in the UK.

Can you set up auto-sync so you dont have to hit the sync button each and every time? Thanks for this video! Super helpful.

Issue & Solution: Annotations being erased during sync. Realised I was syncing the wrong way round. Needed to sync the file I was _editing_ not to file I wanted the edits to appear on.

does this work also, when the physical file storage location is on a 3rd party cloud, e. g. Google Drive?

Boox make great devices and they have great potential but they over complicate things, why the need for separate modes that do the same thing, just one will do, I'll stick to using Google drive, it only requires an email address to work

so basically Onyx ( .... China ) takes a complete blue-print snapshot of your full directory .... goodbye privacy ? no company with strict IT policy will allow this type of cloud-syncing

Its a shame you have to go through onyx cloud & lose control there

Forget it…,, far too complicated. Two weeks later you’ll have completely forgotten how it needs to work.