Flowstate + Paper Notebooks
Turn handwritten pages into clean text files in Obsidian, Notion, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneNote.
Flowstate turns your handwriting into formatted text and saves it to the apps you already use.
Just take a photo of your handwritten notes – Flowstate will automatically transcribe them according to your instructions and deliver them to the location you choose.
Choose where to save your notes
Set this once — then every note you upload automatically gets saved to the same place.
Save each note as its own markdown file in your vault, or append notes to an existing file.
Snap a photo
- Open the Flowstate app and tap the camera. Line up your page and take a photo. Or choose some from your gallery.
- If you want, you can give Flowstate optional instructions for how to read your notes. For example, tell Flowstate how to interpret your shorthand, or how to turn handwritten symbols into formatting, tags, and more.
- Send it off!
Flowstate takes it from there
After you send in your note, Flowstate transcribes it, adds a title, and automatically saves it to the location you chose in Obsidian using the Flowstate Obsidian plugin. It usually takes just a couple minutes.
A copy of the original handwriting or audio file is also saved to your attachment folder and embedded within each note.
A few tips
- Make sure all the text is in the frame. Nothing lost in the margins.
- You can snap photos of multiple pages in one note. You can crop the images too.
- If a note doesn't show up, check that you sent it to the right project.
Questions? Reach us any time at brothers@seekflowstate.com.
And a haiku, why not
Pen scratches the pagea photo lifts the ink upclean words drift back down