Ditching the Notebook for an AI Pen: A Month of Notes, Transcripts, and Insights
A Tom’s Guide hands-on tester spent a month with Flowtica’s AI pen, which writes on regular paper while quietly recording conversations to sync with a companion app that can generate transcripts, meeting summaries and action items. It offers features like FlowMark for marking key moments and Snap It to merge handwritten pages with transcripts. The pen packs up to 30 hours of recording (100 hours with the charging case), stores about 4,000 hours of audio on 32GB, supports 39 languages and up to 15 speakers, and can operate without a subscription for unlimited recording, with paid upgrades for extra AI features. It’s designed to fit into existing workflows without forcing changes, making it ideal for meetings and lectures, though occasional pairing glitches and some accuracy issues in summaries were noted. Overall, it’s a strong option for turning handwritten notes into searchable, AI-assisted outputs and quickly became the author’s favorite AI notetaker.