Inksightful
Search your handwritten diaries and notebooks
16 followers
Search your handwritten diaries and notebooks
16 followers
Inksightful turns paper notebooks and diaries into a searchable archive. Scan pages with your iPhone, use AI handwriting recognition, and find names, places, ideas, and memories later without flipping through old pages. Original scans stay linked to the text so you can check the source.
RiteKit Company Logo API
@bk_dewey This is a really thoughtful solution to a genuine problem — the friction between preferring analog writing and wanting digital searchability is real for a lot of people. The detail about keeping original scans linked to transcriptions is smart, since handwriting recognition will always have edge cases where you need to verify against the source.
@saulfleischman I appreciate the kind words! You're right: I've gone back to the original page scans numerous times when the transcription looked suspicious...
Mailwarm
How well does it handle messy handwriting and mixed pages ?
@karimbenkeroum I think it handles messy handwriting well! I wrote about it last year when I was developing the product. This post has an example page from one of my diaries, the results from Apple's on-device OCR, and the result from LLM handwriting recognition. Compared to on-device OCR, LLMs crossed a threshold for me; it's easier to read the LLM-recognized text than my own handwriting!
https://bdewey.substack.com/p/whats-new-with-notebook-index
Not sure what you mean by "mixed pages," though; can you elaborate?
Hey mate! This looks fantastic.
If you do industrial design or UI sketches in a notebook, how will Inksightful interpret these?
@profscrooby To be honest... I'm a verbal person and my drawing skills haven't progressed beyond a mildly competent kindergartener. So I focused this on scanning words instead of photos.
If you don't mind me asking: What would you want an app to do with designs or sketches?