You might yearn to pick up your iPad and scrawl some notes on its surface, but until recently you had few good options for doing so.

Imagine needing to write something in a hurry. Well, if you have a Galaxy Note, you can just pull out the S Pen and scribble on the lock screen. And well, you can do that on the iPhone and iPad ...

iPadOS 16's handwriting-recognition feature automatically converts Apple Pencil writing to text. Here's how to take notes using Scribble.

If you've ever wanted to create a new note in the Apple Notes app almost instantly, your iPad can do that — with the help of an Apple Pencil. Here's how.

Adonit Jot Pro Fine Point, Wacom Bamboo Stylus and Sensu Artist Brush and Stylus are some of the well-known styluses for iPad. Let us see which of these are preferred for writing notes.

This makes it so you can create a note, and then send it straight to an ever growing "Journal.txt" file on Dropbox. Drafts is available for $1.99 for iPhone and $2.99 for iPad in the iTunes App Store.