The 4 Best Digital Notebooks for Handwritten Notes

The Kindle Scribe is an easy recommendation that won’t break the bank. It is, in one mode, a fully functioning e-reader and, in another, a digital notebook wide open to customization. It makes it easy to download PDFs to mark up and you can scribble in the margins of any of your Kindle e-books, which you will immediately have full access to upon logging in.

Writing with Amazon’s Premium Pen feels natural and, considering it was also the first digital notebook I tried, easy to learn. It’s not quite as tactile as pen and paper, but there’s no noticeable lag when writing either. If your handwriting is out of practice, you can convert any handwritten note to text for greater readability and organization.

Now, this isn’t the newest Scribe but it’s the one I’ve spent the most time with. The newer 2025 model is frankly better looking, incrementally thinner and brighter too, but starts at $500 for a 32 gigs of storage (no 16GB option offered). If I was buying, I’d save the extra Benjamin and opt for this slightly older model from 2024. It has got all the same features and software updates, so don’t worry about falling behind on Amazon’s latest AI whatever.