Write by hand. Use it everywhere.
Meetings, interviews, lectures, journals. Penlo turns the pages you already fill into text you can search, share and build on, without changing how you write.
Meetings and 1:1s
Take notes on your tablet like you would on paper. By the time you are back at your desk, the page is text in Notion with a summary and tags, and the action item you scribbled in the margin is one search away.
Research and interviews
Run interviews with a pen, not a laptop between you and the person. Penlo transcribes every page so you can search quotes across dozens of sessions, then ask Penlo AI what themes keep coming up.
Study and lectures
Handwriting helps you remember. Penlo makes it searchable. Find every lecture where a concept came up, export a semester of notes to Obsidian, and ask Penlo AI to explain your own notes back to you.
Writing and journaling
Draft chapters, morning pages or a daily log by hand. Cleanup joins broken lines and fixes spelling, so what lands in your editor reads like you typed it.
Your handwriting, inside Claude and ChatGPT.
Penlo ships a built-in MCP server. Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client can search your handwritten notes on demand, right in the conversation. No copy-paste, no file uploads.
Claude Desktop installs in one click: download the .mcpb extension, paste your API key, and ask about anything you've written.
MCP setup guideA second brain that fills itself
Every notebook you close becomes structured data. Here is what people build on top of it.
One searchable archive
Years of notebooks from every device you have owned, searchable by word and by date.
Automations
Webhooks fire when a note is ready, so new pages can open tasks, update a CRM or post to a channel.
Your own tools
The REST API gives developers your notes as clean JSON for scripts, dashboards and apps.
Works with the AI you already use
Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Cursor about anything you've written. Penlo's MCP server lets them search your handwritten notes right in the conversation.
