If you own a notebook, you already own the good part.

When the user says they cannot print, or cannot read the printed sheet — and only then; neither question is ever asked — the sheet becomes a setup card they copy into whatever notebook they already own. A notebook is natively what this design system labors to produce: a mostly-empty page where the pen is the highest-contrast element and nothing on it competes. So the mode never apologizes, never names what they are not getting, and never suggests a printer or any other way around it.

One trigger covers both because the card is not a printing workaround: it is the session in linear text — an intent line, one prompt per page, a few numbered handles, and the structure said out loud. Linear text is exactly what a person who cannot read the page needs, and what they do with it is theirs to choose: a braille slate, a typed file, a scribe, a voice memo. The skill hands the session over and stops, the same way it does for print. The budget below still binds by default, because a design that will not survive 50-75 words is too print-shaped whatever the medium; a user transcribing by keyboard rather than by hand has a different cost curve and will say so.

Two forks come first. A tablet and stylus is not a printing problem — point at annotating the PDF directly, one line, then stop; scan-back already reads a stylus layer. Light capacity is served in the chat instead: the gut calls get asked in conversation, without guilt, and a one-screen card only if they ask for one. And if someone on the card path asks for the PDF — for a sighted colleague, for a scribe to work from — render it without comment. It is never offered and never rendered unasked, because offering it names what they are not getting; a person with a use for the file is not being handed a consolation prize.

Outside those forks the handover ends the asking. Once the card is theirs, the questions on it are answered off-screen and come back on the return trip; walking the human through them in the chat turns a handover into an interview and spends the off-screen half of the loop the card exists to buy. Two allowances, and neither is an exception. The Light fork above: there the session was asked in conversation instead of handed over, so there is no card in hand to interview against. And the single offer made when a session never comes back — once, where a natural opening exists, to work the sheet's questions in the chat instead — which is not an interview against a live handover but the close of an abandoned one. scan-back holds the same line coming back — receive the return, never conduct it.

The card is a single fenced message (the machine keeps its Mono on screen even when the page will have none), in two strictly separated parts. The separation is the format:

• COPY THIS is transcribed by hand and is the only thing that is. Hard budget: 50-75 handwritten words for Deep, one phone screen for Light. Copy load is stated in words. Never in minutes — the clock rule in §4 holds off the page exactly as it holds on it.
• DO THIS is read once and never copied. Structure, house rules, and the pen legend live here, where they cost no transcription.

What COPY THIS carries, in falling order of what survives a tight budget:

• The intent line, verbatim. The only mandatory header element. On a printed kit it rides every page as a backstop; in a notebook it is the sole anchor, and everything §6 says about writing it for a cold reader is now load-bearing rather than insurance. Drop the title before dropping this.
• One prompt per page, worded exactly as it would have printed, plus a page number in the corner.
• Machine items compressed to numbered handles, four words or fewer each, under a hand-copied I PROPOSE caption, copied exactly — it is the same first-person caption the printed sheets carry, and scan-back matches it as a literal to recover provenance — and only on a page where the human reacts, selects, or ranks. Never on a page that also carries a generative zone: hand-copying is deeper exposure than glancing at a printed column, which is safe where reacting is the task and corrosive where generating is. The full items stay in the chat, where scan-back expands a handle against them on return; where there is no chat to expand against — a card copied out of a session that is gone — the handle is read as it stands, never expanded into the item it might be abbreviating, because an invented full item is the machine's words entering the record as the human's.
• At most one machine line dictated whole, inside quotation marks. Quotation marks are the notebook's Mono, the only provenance mark a handwritten page has. A second one stops reading as the machine and starts reading as the sheet's own voice.

DO THIS dictates structure as pen gestures, never as a description of a layout: "draw a line down the middle," "number 1-12 down the margin before writing anything in line 1," "bottom third of the last page: write OPEN and leave it alone until the end." Numbering before writing is what replaces the gravity of a printed slot count — a person filling a page top-down stops at four. The gesture is how the shape of the work gets said, not the work itself: where a gesture cannot be performed, the structure it describes is what carries over, and twelve slots are twelve slots whether they are ruled down a margin or typed as twelve empty lines.

The pen legend dictated in DO THIS carries the same protocol §9 prints, minus one rung. On a page with no printed layer the cascade is handwritten legend > defaults: a card is dictated, never printed, so it supplies no ink key to sit in the middle, and a legend in the human's own hand is the only key an unprinted session has. Say the marks first and the hues second — the marks are what survive a page worked in one ballpoint, which is the ordinary case here rather than the degraded one. scan-back Step 1 reads the cascade back the same way.

Spent Ground is the one pattern whose notebook form is a convention rather than a layout, and it is dictated as such: the categories are written small and struck through as they are written, which delivers the already-walked fence in the pen protocol's own vocabulary. A struck block copied that way is a fence, not a set of kills — page-patterns.md §Notebook translation specifies the form, and scan-back reads it back as a fence.

If a design cannot be dictated inside the budget, the design is too print-shaped for a notebook. Simplify it: fewer zones, fewer handles, one prompt where there were three. Never dictate more.