Dealing with handwritten notes

[Shahmatt]

I normally write my notes in small notebooks. But later it is hard to search and trackback what I wrote. There seem to be a few methods to solve this problem, ordered from most expensive to least expensive:

1. Write notes on e-ink device like the Remarkable or Supernote
2. Write notes on a special book and scan to phone using app, e.g. Rocketbook
3. Write notes on new tablet (e.g. Xiaomi tab 6) using stylus
4. Write notes on existing phone using stylus (need to buy a stylus)
5. Write notes on paper and scan to phone using a suitable OCR app (or can also use Rocketbook app)

Whatever method should be able to convert handwritten text to digital text.

One thing that's interesting about Rocketbook app is that you can draw in hashtags on the paper and it will change the document file name to the hashtag word.

Which method would work best? If I could find a good OCR app to scan my notes and autofile on local drive that would be best, but I could not find anything suitable. Any recommendations appreciated.

 

[reddevil0728]

I normally write my notes in small notebooks. But later it is hard to search and trackback what I wrote. There seem to be a few methods to solve this problem, ordered from most expensive to least expensive:

1. Write notes on e-ink device like the Remarkable or Supernote
2. Write notes on a special book and scan to phone using app, e.g. Rocketbook
3. Write notes on new tablet (e.g. Xiaomi tab 6) using stylus
4. Write notes on existing phone using stylus (need to buy a stylus)
5. Write notes on paper and scan to phone using a suitable OCR app (or can also use Rocketbook app)

Whatever method should be able to convert handwritten text to digital text.

One thing that's interesting about Rocketbook app is that you can draw in hashtags on the paper and it will change the document file name to the hashtag word.

Which method would work best? If I could find a good OCR app to scan my notes and autofile on local drive that would be best, but I could not find anything suitable. Any recommendations appreciated.

How legible is your handwriting?

 

[Shahmatt]

How legible is your handwriting?

Sometimes more legible, sometimes less. Depends on how quickly I need to write.

Ideally if I can store notes according to tags/filename that will be very useful.

 

[reddevil0728]

Sometimes more legible, sometimes less. Depends on how quickly I need to write.

Ideally if I can store notes according to tags/filename that will be very useful.

If your handwriting not legible, the OCR/AI must really be powerful to make a diff if not it wouldn’t be able to digitalise what you write

 

[Shahmatt]

If your handwriting not legible, the OCR/AI must really be powerful to make a diff if not it wouldn’t be able to digitalise what you write

I can focus on writing just the tags or filename clearly. If the OCR tool can pick up on this only and do some sort of filing that would be good enough.

The actual content doesn't matter so much as it can even be a drawing which has no text.

 

[Eien_kisu]

use remarkable https://remarkable.com/store/remarkable-2