Save Notes from Your Tablet to Google Drive
To save your tablet notes to Google Drive, email a PDF from your tablet to your Flowstate project address. Flowstate transcribes the handwriting and saves each note as a Google Doc in the folder you choose, usually within a couple of minutes.
Updated July 2026
Why Google Drive can't do this on its own
Your tablet can put a PDF in Google Drive, but it stays a PDF. Drive's OCR targets printed text, so handwriting won't come through cleanly, follow your shorthand, or append to an existing doc.
Email your notes
- Flowstate gives you a unique email address for each save location, so you can route different notes to different places. Journal pages get saved in one place, lecture notes to another.
- Open your note on your tablet and share it as a PDF by email. Enter your Flowstate email address.
- If you want, you can use the email body to 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.
- After you send it off, Flowstate turns your handwriting into text, adds a title, and automatically saves the formatted note to the destination you choose.
Flowstate takes it from there
Common questions
Do I need to install anything on the device?
No. You use the built-in send-by-email feature — nothing to install on the tablet itself.
What format do the notes arrive in?
Each note becomes its own Google Doc in the folder you choose, or gets appended to an existing Doc.
How much does it cost?
Flowstate runs on credits. One page of handwriting, or one minute of audio, is one credit. You start with 50 free credits, no card required, and top up whenever you're running low. Purchased credits never expire.
Does Flowstate rewrite my notes?
No. It transcribes what you wrote, cleans up the formatting, and files it where it belongs. Your words stay your words.
Save your tablet notes to Google Drive
Start with 50 pages free — no card required.
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