Reading Journal: TabMap
Keep the reason behind each physical-book page mark
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Keep the reason behind each physical-book page mark
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A sticky tab finds a page. TabMap keeps the reason you stopped there. For example, save page 42 as Clue and add the question you want the next chapter to answer. Keep, Felt, Clue and Discuss marks plus intensity form a spoiler-free reading pulse. Built for physical books on iPhone and iPad. Reading data stays on your device and no app account is needed. Try one complete book map free. Optional Pro adds unlimited books, custom legends and local backup/restore.
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Before using your free complete-book slot, explore the included sample; it does not use that allowance. For your own paper book, start with one passage you expect to revisit, rather than cataloguing every tab.
Fictional example: page 36, Discuss, "Why do the two speakers give different reasons for locking the room?" Choose an intensity that reflects your reaction. On your next reading session, return to the passage and see whether that question still makes sense without today's context.
For book clubs, agree a chapter or scene boundary separately. Check the actual text or image before sharing; a reading pulse cannot decide what is a spoiler for another reader.
I develop TabMap. One complete book map is free; Pro is optional. Reading data stays on-device and no app account is required. This example is invented, and this note was prepared with AI assistance.
I develop TabMap. I made a free question-revision worksheet for physical-book readers: keep the original question, the passage detail that changed it, the revised question and one next reading action together.
The five-field tool generates a copyable card, clears the old output after an edit and prints a one-page fictional example. It does not interpret the book or check spoilers. The same exercise works on paper.
Try the worksheet: https://betterthanhtml.com/workshop/dngr4ps9
To keep a question beside its book in TabMap, mark the page, choose Clue or Discuss and use an optional private note. One complete book map is free; the sample does not consume that allowance. For iPhone and iPad; reading data stays on-device, with optional anonymous paid-screen diagnostics that can be declined or turned off.
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reading-journal-tabmap/id6796663483
Developer and AI disclosure: I make the app; AI assisted the worksheet and this update. All worksheet examples are invented. This is a new companion resource, not an app-release or user-results announcement.