Your Smartphone: If you have your phone on hand, you already have a way to convert handwritten notes into a digital format. Evernote and OneNote both do this well. In Evernote, add a new note. CLIP IT ALL - Great for research—clip any article or web page - Clip to a specific notebook and assign tags - Use Evernote to find clips on any device HIGHLIGHT AND SHARE - Highlight key text from any website or article - Share and email clips or create a URL link CUSTOMIZE CLIPS - Special formats for LinkedIn, Amazon & YouTube - Clip Gmail.
While pens, pencils, and quills still work magic on a piece of paper, writing utensils for your bullet journal can be a pain to carry around. I still have nightmares from the stacks of paper in my high school backpack. If you’re like me, know you have the option to leave the loose sheets and explosion-prone ink pens in the past. Here are some high-tech digital notebooks to bring your handwriting into a digital era.
Upload your handwritten notes to the cloud. Amazon
BUY NOWThe Rocketbook Everlast Smart Notebook has 36 reusable pages that—if written on with Pilot FriXion pens, markers, or highlighters—can be wiped clean with a damp cloth. After 15 seconds, the ink dries and you can scan the notes with your smartphone’s camera to Dropbox, iCloud, or Google Drive. The notebook comes with one pen.
There is a quiz and a chart on their website to help you choose your “brain type.” Amazon
BUY NOWThe EVO notebookis a 90-day productivity-tracking smart notebook with fancy copper gild on its pages. Within the planner, you’ll find daily, weekly, and monthly sections to record your daily activities and what you hope to get done. The notebook—supposedly the product of more than 10 years of cognitive psychology research and development—is designed to help keep your life organized and your mind goal-oriented. It combines your own notes with an intelligent organization system that you can capture using its EVO app. Each day, fill out the pages, and the app will help you keep track of your progress. Double reach lift truck. There are four versions of the notebook—Alchemist, Architect, Explorer, and Oracle—each designed for different types of thinkers.
Their stickers help organize your handwritten pages. Amazon
BUY NOWThe Moleskine Evernote is a flat-lying notebook, with a hardcover, thick paper, an elastic band to keep the notebook closed, and a pocket inside to store loose papers or business cards. Use your smartphone—and the Evernote Page app—to capture pages from the notebook. Within the app are “Smart Stickers” that help you tag, organize, and search for scanned pages.
The Sony DPT-CP1/Bis designed to feel like you’re holding a paper in your hand. It’s got an organic paper-y texture, is super-thin and is designed to have less glare. Stand ofood. You can takes notes on PDFs, doodle on the screen, and easily send notes or documents to your computer via their app. The screen measures 10.3 inches diagonally and the device weighs 8.5-ounces. It can stay charged for three weeks, depending on how much you use it.