Robin now recognizes your handwriting on sticky notes
The NestBoard team · 2026-06-20
How it works
You can already ask Robin questions out loud or send her text. Now you can also snap a photo of anything with words on it—typed or handwritten—and she'll read it.
Hold your phone camera over a school permission slip, a sticky note on the fridge, a handwritten party invitation, or a medicine bottle label. Robin extracts the text and figures out what to do with it. If there's a date, she offers to add it to the calendar. If it's a task, she can create a chore or reminder. If it's a shopping list scrawled on paper, she can add those items to your pantry.
The recognition works on printed text, cursive, block letters, and that hurried scrawl you leave yourself on a Post-it at 6 a.m. It's not perfect—very messy handwriting or low-contrast photos can trip it up—but it handles most real-world notes without fuss.
What one family uses it for
The Chen family has two kids in elementary school. Every week there's a new permission slip, a flyer about picture day, a note from the teacher about an upcoming field trip.
Maya used to transcribe them by hand into NestBoard's calendar. Now she just taps Robin's camera icon on her phone, points it at the paper, and lets Robin read it. "Field trip to the science museum, Friday March 14, return by 2:30 PM" becomes a calendar event in five seconds.
Her partner uses it for the pile of mail on the counter—appointment cards from the dentist, reminders about car registration. Their nine-year-old figured out she could photograph her homework planner instead of reading assignments aloud.
It's the same principle as forwarding emails to Robin—get information into the system in whatever form it arrives, without retyping.
Why we built it
Households run on a mix of formats. Some information comes digitally. A lot still doesn't.
We wanted Robin to meet you where the information actually is: stuck to the fridge, buried in a backpack, scribbled on the back of a receipt. If the calendar lives on a kitchen tablet, the input methods should be just as flexible.
You can still type, talk, or forward emails. Now you can also point your phone at a piece of paper and move on with your day.