So what's a gadget-obsessed geek to do? Get the best of both worlds: convert your handwritten notes to digital when you need to store them for later. There are a lot of ways to do so.

Taking notes with an Apple Pencil on your iPad? The Smart Script feature in iPadOS 18 can make your scribbles more readable.

My handwriting looks like a doctor's prescription. But OneNote's hidden handwriting conversion feature rescues my notes. It converts even my worst scrawls into perfectly readable text, whether I'm ...

And in some cases they can turn your handwriting into editable text. But can they really replace the tried-and-true pen-and-paper combo that's worked just fine for hundreds of years?

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Turn your iPad into a virtual notepad Three iPad apps--the $5 Note Taker HD, $6 Notes Plus, and free Use Your Handwriting--make it easy to record your thoughts via handwriting on virtual notepads.

Copy handwritten text using any Apple device If you own an Apple device you don’t need any app to copy handwriting–you can just take a picture of a document.

If you've got a few minutes, stylish script, and a scanner, FontCapture can turn your handwriting into a font. That keeps all your mad-scientist notes ...

With iPadOS 14 and a new feature called Scribble, the Apple Pencil is becoming more sophisticated. It recognizes handwriting and turns it into typed text that can be used across the OS and apps.