Penly: Digital Planner & Notes

Highly customizable planner with stylus support and PDF editing

Penly: Digital Planner & Notes brings a polished, premium approach to organizing tasks and capturing ideas. It bridges note taking and planning in a single workspace, giving you the freedom to shape the interface, layouts, and themes to match how you like to work.

For planning, Penly provides daily, weekly, and monthly calendar views that make it easy to zoom in on busy days or pull back to see the broader picture. If you prefer the look of paper, you can switch among plain, lined, dotted, or grid backgrounds. The note taking toolkit is equally versatile. You can type with a keyboard or write with a stylus, then refine your pages with shapes and a dedicated text highlighter for clean markups and visual emphasis.

Document handling is a core part of the package. You can import PDFs and text files, annotate them, and even enrich pages with images and stickers for more visual projects. Custom hyperlinks let you jump to specific pages inside a document or open a website, which is useful for building interconnected notebooks, project hubs, or study guides.

There are caveats to consider. Large PDF files are a weak spot, and attempts to work with them can lead to crashes. In addition, imported documents that rely on checkbox elements will not retain those checkboxes, which can disrupt form based workflows.

Even with those limitations, Penly stands out as a capable all in one planner for people who want a customizable, handwriting friendly space that also handles documents. It suits users who mix scheduling, note taking, and light annotation in one place, and who appreciate a tidy interface they can tailor. If your files are modest in size and you do not depend on checkbox forms, Penly offers a flexible, well rounded environment for managing both plans and notes.