Notewise - AI Notes, PDF, Docs

A single note can hold typed text, an audio recording and its transcript, imported PDFs and slide decks, images, scans and your own handwriting. That's the core difference from a plain notes app, where each format usually gets its own silo. No more juggling five tools for one project. If your source material is messy and multi-format, Notewise keeps it in one place instead of making you choose what kind of note to start.

Notewise can turn what you captured into a structured, editable note and keep it current as you add new sources. There's a Suggest Changes workflow for reviewing updates before they apply. You can also switch AI updates off entirely. If you'd rather keep manual control, that's fine. For a meeting series or an ongoing project, the note stays a living document rather than a snapshot.

In-note chat is scoped to the note you're viewing, so you can ask it to summarize, restructure or explain something inside that context. Global chat ranges across your whole library, pulling together context from different files, meetings and handwritten pages. The practical split is simple. Use in-note chat to work a single piece of material. Use global chat to find connections across everything you've saved.

Text and handwriting recognition make both typed and handwritten content searchable. You can search across handwriting, imported documents and images, run OCR on scans and photos, and copy recognized text back out. Handwriting recognition covers 20+ languages. That matters if you take notes outside English. Old paper notes stop being one-way when they become searchable this way.

You can record audio inside Notewise and have it transcribed into text, with support across 20+ languages. The audio, transcript and adjacent handwritten notes all stay in the same note. Later you can ask the AI questions about the recording. Good for lectures, interviews and meetings where you don't want your attention split between listening and writing. How does that hold up in a two-hour seminar? You record once, then revisit the transcript the next day.

Canvas is the pen-and-paper side: pen, highlighter, calligraphy and creative brushes, eraser, lasso, shapes, tape, sticky notes, tables and more. It supports pressure-sensitive writing, palm rejection, stroke stabilization and gestures like scribble to erase and hold to draw. You also get connectors for diagrams and mind maps. Designers and students who think visually get a workspace that isn't limited to lines of text.

Beyond chat, Notewise includes AI note generation, quizzes and evaluation, guided AI podcasts on eligible plans, Magic Select for asking about a highlighted portion of Canvas, and AI image background removal. These lean toward learning and analysis rather than just capture. It's a different job. If you revise for exams or work through dense material, the quizzes and podcasts give you a way to test yourself instead of just rereading.

Custom Tabs show the same note in different structures without duplicating the source, with 20+ built-in formats like Action Items and Cornell Notes plus the option to build your own. Folders, tags, sorting, pinning and page reordering handle larger libraries. It's the part that keeps a growing notebook from turning into a mess. Genuinely useful once you pass a few dozen notes.