Launching today
Introducing Penwell Turn boring documents into beautiful notebooks. Paste a document, README, Text, PDF, transcript, YouTube video, URL, or upload an audio or video file, and Penwell transforms it into a hand-drawn, Cornell-style notebook your brain actually wants to read. With intelligent highlights, margin notes, cue questions, and a warm paper aesthetic, Penwell makes learning, reviewing, and remembering feel effortless.
Love the Cornell-style output, that warm aesthetic is super inviting. One thing I'd love is a quick export to Anki or similar spaced-repetition decks straight from those cue questions, so the review loop doesn't need a separate step.
@grselfrzf Thanks so much! I'm really glad you noticed the Cornell layout. That was a big focus while building Penwell. And I love your idea. Turning cue questions into Anki decks would make the review process almost frictionless. It's definitely something I'd love to add. Thanks for planting the seed! 🙌
the margin notes feature with cue questions actually looks like someone thought hard about how people learn, not just how something looks. really nice execution on the cornell-style layout.
@seldavgcp Thank you! That's probably the nicest feedback I could get. 😊 The goal was never to make documents look prettier. It was to make them easier to learn from. The Cornell-style layout, cue questions, and margin notes all came from my own experience studying from handwritten notebooks. I'm glad it resonated with you.
The Cornell layout with margin questions and cues is such a smart touch, it actually mimics how I take notes by hand instead of just dumping text on a page.
@devranelikszf3 Thank you! That was exactly the idea. I wanted Penwell to feel like studying from a real notebook. I'm really glad the Cornell layout resonated with you. 😊
The Cornell-style layout with margin cues feels so thoughtfully executed, especially how the hand-drawn aesthetic somehow makes a dense PDF actually inviting to sit down with.
@leventkodaman That means a lot to hear. I spent a lot of time thinking about how a page feels to read, not just how it looks. If a dense PDF feels approachable instead of overwhelming, then Penwell is doing exactly what I hoped it would.