Mobile Productivity

How to Turn Your iPhone Into the Ultimate Pocket Notebook for $18

Write and draw on your iPhone with text recognition. Sync notes to your Mac or iPad. Turn your iPhone into a handy little notebook.

Will J Murphy
5 min readJun 9, 2022

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Handwriting on an iPhone (photos by author)
Handwriting on an iPhone (photos by author)

Have you noticed how many people keep track of their life using a tiny notebook, the size of their hand? The notebook fits neatly into a bag or jacket pocket. It doesn’t get in the way. Unlike an iPad.

Hold on, a smaller touch device does exist: your iPhone. Why not use that? It has its challenges.

  • An Apple Pencil doesn’t work on an iPhone.
  • The iPhone’s small screen makes it too difficult to write on.

If you could get around these drawbacks, an iPhone would make a lot of sense. It’s the right size, and you’re carrying it anyway, so here’s how to turn your iPhone into a handy little notebook on steroids!

Note: I have no link with any of the suppliers, and I haven’t used affiliate links. This is just what I think.

What do I write with?

Finding something to write with is the easiest hurdle to leap over. Long before the Apple Pencil arrived, people were using styli to write…

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Will J Murphy
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