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> - Give me an app to scan my (mostly neatly-written) notes into text, maybe with hooks so I can train it on my own quirks of notation. Then I can review my notes more easily - even on the go - during the semester, and rearrange & reformat & refactor them.

Some tablets have apps for your first request. If I write by hand so that I can read myself later, my Supernote Nomad can transcript and export to text file. It's not perfect, but with the fast feedback, I can rewrite a word more cleanly when I see that a letter was not recognized.

A few years ago, there were discussions about popular font creations inspired by handwriting. I don't remember them, but a quick search got me these.

https://www.handwrittner.com/

https://www.calligraphr.com/

Apple released a video showing their notes app doing all of the above.

I don’t know if it’s part of their failed ai launch though?

Taking a photo of my handwritten notes and passing it to ChatGPT works 95% of the time. Once in a while it gets a character or two wrong, but for the most part its magic for me.