Does Harbor handle handwriting?

Yes, in two ways.

Write with Apple Pencil

On iPad, Harbor has a sketch mode built for the Pencil. Pick a paper style, write or draw, and come back any time to keep editing — sketches stay editable, they’re not flattened into a picture the moment you close them. They live inside notes like any content, and you can export a sketch to PDF.

One plain limit: Harbor doesn’t convert Pencil strokes into typed text. Your handwriting stays handwriting.

Scan handwritten pages

Handwritten paper — journals, whiteboards, index cards, a recipe in your grandmother’s hand — can be scanned or photographed into a note, and it goes through Harbor’s OCR like any other capture.

Here’s the honest part: how much of it becomes searchable depends on the handwriting. On a page of the 1860 U.S. census, search found 53 of the 73 words we tried, and the misses are written up in Evernote for genealogy. Modern OCR reads neat print well and does respectably with everyday cursive; a hurried scrawl is a coin flip. When it works, it’s quietly wonderful — search finds a word inside a photographed journal page and highlights it right where you wrote it.

Our suggestion: scan the handwritten things you’d hate to lose anyway. Even when OCR only catches half the words, that’s half more than a shoebox gives you — and the page itself is safe, synced, and filed either way.