Guides2 min read
Penlo vs searching on your tablet
Your e-ink tablet can probably search your handwriting already. Here's what changes when your notes live in Penlo instead: every notebook, every device, from any screen.
Michal Wlosik
Builder, product marketer. Creator of Penlo and Ectobuilder. Co-author of The AdTech Book. Writes about turning handwritten notes into searchable, useful text.
Use cases3 min read
Research notes for PhD students: write by hand, search like a database
Lectures, papers, supervisor meetings and lab notes, all handwritten on an e-ink tablet and all searchable at once. How PhD students use Penlo instead of a spreadsheet index.
Use cases3 min read
A handwritten meeting-notes system you can actually search
Keep taking meeting notes by hand, and still find every decision, action item and number weeks later. A simple system for e-ink tablets and Penlo.
Guides2 min read
Use your handwritten notes in Claude and ChatGPT
Connect Penlo to Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code or Cursor in a minute, and let your AI assistant search and read your handwritten notebooks.
Guides3 min read
Clean text from messy handwriting
How Penlo joins broken lines, fixes misreads using context and tidies punctuation, and how to correct anything by hand without losing your edits.
Guides2 min read
Ask your notes anything with Penlo AI
Penlo AI answers questions using everything you've written by hand, and shows you which notebooks each answer came from.
Guides3 min read
Search every word you've ever written
Penlo turns every handwritten page into text, so you can find any note by a word you wrote in it, across all your notebooks at once.
Guides5 min read
Getting started with Penlo: set up in five minutes
Connect your e-ink tablet to Penlo and turn your handwritten notes into searchable text. A five-step setup guide, and why Dropbox works best.