Hi Product Hunt 👋 I write by hand. Not for the aesthetic, it is just how I think. The problem was never the writing, it was everything after it: the page sits on the iPad and the real work happens on the Mac, and between the two there is always an export, an AirDrop, a folder to go hunting for. So Pen Friend started as one thing. Flick a page and it is on your Mac. A Mac screenshot comes back the other way and lands on the page, ready to annotate. What I did not expect was how much it changed once I used it every day. Two things came out of that: Tracing paper. You lay a sheet over a screenshot or a PDF and work in the margins right next to the thing, instead of having to choose between the image and your notes. Asking on the page. Circle something, ask, and the answer arrives in ink. That came from noticing how often I left the iPad to look something up, and lost the page every single time. The search surprised me too. You write the search word with the pencil, and it matches the words read off your ink as well as what each page turned out to be about. I find pages by what I was thinking now, not by what I named them. The Mac companion is free, and you need both halves for the flick to work. If you write by hand: what still makes you leave the page?

Pen Friend

Handwritten iPad notes that land on your Mac instantly

Handwritten iPad notes that land on your Mac instantly