HandToDo vs Penlog

HandToDo is an elegant and intuitive task and note management app, designed for those who value both handwriting and efficient organization. Write your tasks by hand with Apple Pencil or type them on the keyboard, then let the app automatically recognize your handwriting and turn your handwritten notes into searchable, actionable items. Each task can be enriched with notes, due dates, colors, and clear statuses: to do, in progress, or completed. Multiple Views for Every Workflow Dashboard View: Get an at-a-glance overview of your tasks with stats, filters, and quick actions. List View: Classic organized view with sections by status for focused work. Kanban Board: Visualize your workflow with drag-and-drop columns. Move tasks seamlessly between "To Do," "Doing," and "Done" for an agile approach to productivity. Calendar View: See all your tasks with due dates on a monthly calendar. Perfect for deadline management and planning ahead. Handwriting & Keyboard Input Seamlessly combine handwritten input with Apple Pencil and keyboard typing. Write titles and notes naturally with your hand, and the app will recognize the text for search and organization. Notes Section Beyond tasks, HandToDo includes a dedicated Notes section. Capture ideas, meeting notes, or quick thoughts with the same handwriting recognition capabilities. Complete Task Management Clear statuses: To Do, In Progress, Done Due dates with overdue indicators Optional color coding to highlight priorities Rich notes with handwriting or typing Search across all your tasks and notes iCloud Synchronization Automatically access your tasks and notes across iPad and Mac. Everything stays in sync, always. Dashboard Widget Monitor your tasks directly from your home screen with a live widget showing your to-do, in-progress, and completed counts. Clean & Modern Design A smooth, subtle interface perfectly integrated into the Apple ecosystem. Materials, animations, and gestures feel natural and responsive. Perfect for: Students managing assignments and projects Professionals balancing multiple responsibilities Creative thinkers who prefer handwriting Anyone seeking a beautiful, functional productivity tool Teams using agile methodologies (Kanban board) HandToDo adapts to the way you think and work, putting handwriting at the heart of modern productivity. Whether you prefer lists, boards, or calendars, HandToDo has the view you need. Download HandToDo today and rediscover the pleasure of handwritten productivity with the power of digital organization.

Write a task by hand. Watch it show up in Notion. Penlog is a handwritten daily journal. You write with Apple Pencil on iPad. On iPhone you see today, add and check off tasks, and read every page. Every day gets its own page, so there is nothing to name, nothing to file, and no folder to choose. You write. Your other apps update themselves. Rick Thomas, a solo founder in Indianapolis, builds Penlog for people who think in ink. TWO-WAY TASK SYNC WITH NOTION A task you write by hand becomes a real task in your Notion tasks database. Cross it off with Apple Pencil, or tap it on iPhone, and it completes in Notion. Complete it in Notion and it shows as done on your page. Task status moves in both directions automatically. There is no export step and no copying and pasting. NOTATION READING Penlog reads your notation, not only your words. A bullet is a task. A dash is a note. An X means done. An underline makes a heading. Your page arrives sorted into tasks and notes instead of a wall of transcribed text. Penlog reads a page after you stop writing, not while you write. It waits for a finished thought rather than reacting to a half-formed stroke. CARRY-FORWARD An open task stays with you. If you do not finish it today, Penlog carries it forward to tomorrow's page, and to the day after, until you cross it off. Nothing gets lost because you turned the page. THE MORNING BRIEFING Connect Notion, your calendar, Claude, or ChatGPT. Penlog places today's events and open tasks on your page before you open it. That is the Morning Briefing. You can edit or hide anything in it before you start writing. SEEDING FROM AN AI ASSISTANT Ask Claude or ChatGPT to put something on tomorrow's page and it is waiting when you sit down. Penlog calls this seeding. It works in the other direction too, because an assistant can read the page you wrote by hand. FOR AGENTS, SCRIPTS, AND DEVELOPERS Every page is available through a REST API. Penlog also runs a Model Context Protocol server, usually written MCP, so any assistant that supports MCP can read your page and write to it the same way it reads your calendar. Penlog is listed in the Notion Integration Gallery and in the official MCP Registry. WHAT IS FREE AND WHAT NEEDS PRO The journal is free. You can write every day, have your notation read into tasks and notes, carry unfinished tasks forward, and export your pages without a subscription. Penlog Pro adds the destinations, and you can try it free for 14 days. Two-way Notion sync, calendar import, the REST API, and the MCP server require Pro. Pro also removes the daily limit on handwriting reads that applies to free accounts. WHAT PENLOG IS NOT Penlog does not replace Notion and it does not ask you to move your tasks somewhere new. If you keep tasks in Notion and write by hand on iPad, you are doing both today and reconciling them yourself. Penlog is the part in between. FROM A FIVE-STAR REVIEW sleepypeach wrote: "I loved notion but really struggle to refer to it on a daily basis... Written systems worked better but didn't allow me to plan long term. Penlog has been the perfect solution to my workflow issues." PRIVACY AND SECURITY Penlog encrypts all network traffic in transit with TLS. You can delete your account in Settings, which permanently removes your data from Penlog's servers. Writing needs an iPad and Apple Pencil. SUBSCRIPTION AND PURCHASE TERMS Penlog Pro is an auto-renewable subscription, offered monthly or annually. Eligible new subscribers get a 14-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when the trial ends, or when you confirm the purchase if there is no trial. The subscription renews automatically unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and renewal is charged within 24 hours of the end of that period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://penlog.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://penlog.app/privacy/