Better looks, Active Canvas, and some generative AI made for a better note-taking and thought organization companion

Discreet, portable, and surprisingly smart, Plaud NotePin captures your thoughts and meetings with a single tap.

Generate minutes from every call, meeting or conversation.

With the Kindle Scribe (2024), Amazon fixed the little things that were holding back the Scribe and added AI features with surprisingly effective and understated results.

An eReader with access to the Google Play store by MobiScribe

The Amazon Kindle Scribe is a great ereader for its larger screen, with enough writing features to make it a great choice.

A digital notepad, a regular tablet and an ereader in one

If you love to sketch and jot down notes, there’s no better e-paper tablet than the reMarkable 2, but that’s all it’s good for.

The reMarkable Paper Pro may seem limited, but it’s precisely the writing tablet reMarkable fans have been asking for, and it’s a huge upgrade.

It's got a few issues but I'd still call the ViWoods AiPaper an 'outstanding' E Ink writing tablet. If money is no object and productivity is your focus, I can't recommend it highly enough.

The Kobo Libra Colour not only adds a color screen to what is already a great ereader, but also gives it writing capabilities.

It might look like the reMarkable 2, but access to the Play Store might make this the better e-paper writing tablet for some users.

The XPPen Magic Drawing Pad impresses with a beautifully textured screen, pleasingly charge-free stylus and tempting price tag.

NotebookLM is very useful for academic, technical, and general research.

Boox's thinner monochrome e-paper tablet offers a great writing experience and impressive software, but its flexibility does have limits.

PocketBook’s first Android 11 e-note tablet does a couple of features to commend it, but it needs to do a lot better than the InkPad Eo if it wants to be competitive.

This isn't the app for real-time collaboration, but it could prove a hit for students or personal projects.

Don’t expect anything radical, but this is a handy enhancement for inveterate note-takers

The reMarkable Paper Pro Move is an excellent color writing tablet with a focus on the writing experience, and the key word there is 'focus'.

A very basic, mind-mapping tool that will help you focus on ideas, not formatting.

The Bigme B1051C Pro is a color E-ink tablet that uses phone technology to deliver Android into the e-reader zone

The Onyx Boox Palma mimics a phone and is the most portable ereader I’ve had the pleasure of using.

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Amazon's unveiled a new Kindle Paperwhite, and while it looks familiar, it's lighter and faster with a bigger screen.

RecDot Earbuds' AI recording and transcription will wow you to the point that you'll probably accept their (very minor) shortcomings

The Wacom One drawing tablet gets a touch-up

Being able to scan a document straight from your phone is a very handy feature, with many competitors vying for your attention. Adobe’s Scan aims to convince you it’s the app for you.

Google Keep excels at simple note-taking, but isn’t the best option for handling voluminous, complex notes.

A portable display that packs a KVM and a battery

Redesigned page-turn buttons make the Onyx Boox Go Color 7 Gen II a touch more ergonomic than its predecessor, but it fails to improve where it matters most.