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Make it by hand, on Windows.

Journaling, scrapbooking, planning and note taking on a pen tablet, and what it takes to turn the result into a book you can hold.

Note-taking

Handwritten notes for class and work Class notes, meeting notes and lecture slides, written by hand with your pen and easy to find again weeks later.

Journaling and scrapbooking

A digital journal app for Windows 11 Journal by hand on a Windows tablet, on pages that look and feel like a notebook. It stays private on your PC, you can search your own handwriting for any entry, and when the year is done you can hold it as a book. Digital scrapbooking on Windows 11 Peel your sticker sheets, cut photos by hand, layer everything the way you would on a table, write the captions with your pen, and print the finished pages as a real photo book. Digital junk journaling on Windows A junk journal is a collage of everything: old papers, tickets, receipts, tags and scraps. Mementa Notebook gives you the digital scissors, the glue and a drawer full of ephemera, and you can still write over all of it by hand. Use a digital planner on Windows 11 Bring the planner PDF you bought or made, write on every page with your pen, and decorate it with stickers. One honest thing first: Mementa Notebook shows every page of a planner, but it does not follow the links inside it.

Printed books

Turn your journal into a printed book Writing the journal was the hard part. Holding it as a bound book is the easy part, as long as the pages were made for print. Here is how to go from notebook to book, one copy, shipped to your door. Turn your kids' artwork into a printed book The fridge is full, the folder is full, and you cannot bring yourself to throw any of it away. Photograph the drawings, lay them out as a book, and keep a whole year of art on one shelf.

Choosing an app

A note taking and journaling app for Surface Pro Mementa Notebook is made on a Surface Pro with a Slim Pen 2, for people who bought a Surface to write on it. It runs natively on Snapdragon and Intel Surfaces alike. A note taking app you buy once, with no subscription Mementa Notebook is $4.99, paid once. You own it: no subscription, no locked features, and every future update included. Try it first with the Microsoft Store's 7 day free trial. A private journal app that stays on your PC A journal is the most private thing you write. In Mementa Notebook it stays in a folder on your own PC: no account, no cloud sync, no analytics, and handwriting recognition that never sends your words anywhere.