Create study material with notebooks
A notebook is a digital binder you build from blocks - notes, headings, embedded decks, videos and more - then read in study mode.
A notebook on Yalango is a digital binder you build yourself. It fits when you want notes, vocabulary, reading material and video combined into one structured resource - a personal grammar reference, or a chapter-by-chapter companion to a textbook.
Create one from the Create menu in My Library. The free plan allows 10 notebooks; Premium removes the limit.
Pages and blocks
A notebook is organised into pages, and each page is built from blocks. A block can be a heading, a paragraph of text, an embedded deck, a video, and more - see Notebook block types.
Use Add Block at the end of a page, or Insert block here to drop one in between existing blocks.
Editing
The editor has full undo and redo (Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Shift+Z), so deleting a block or reworking a page is safe to experiment with.
Blocks that embed something - a deck, table, text, video or PDF - can also carry their own title and description, which is useful for explaining why a particular deck is sitting in the middle of a grammar explanation.
Study mode
Study opens a read-only version with a sidebar for navigating pages, a search box, zoom, fullscreen, and pinyin display for Chinese. Your last-read page is remembered.
Reading progress
While you study, Yalango tracks which pages you have finished. A page is marked read when you reach the bottom of it, or when you tap Next. You can also use Mark as read / Read at the bottom of the page to mark or unmark by hand.
Progress shows as a bar in the study header, checkmarks in the sidebar, and as x / y read (or Completed) on the notebook card in My Library. Progress is saved for signed-in users only.
Embedded content stays interactive in study mode: decks and tables can be played right there in the page, and text blocks have their own View and Study toggle for sentence-by-sentence reading.
Keyboard shortcuts: ← and → to change page, + and - to zoom, P for pinyin, and Esc to leave.
What notebooks are not
Notebooks are reading material, not drill material. Their content doesn't enter your vocabulary or your review queue - only decks and tables do that. If you want something reviewed by spaced repetition, embed a deck in the notebook and put the words there.
Sharing and exporting
Notebooks are private. You can Duplicate one, or export it as Markdown or PDF - see Export and print a notebook.