Mark offers a smart highlighter device, Mark II, that captures ideas from both paper and screen, recognizing handwriting in over 100 languages. It automatically organizes highlights, enables search across all notes, and syncs with existing note‑taking apps, allowing users to import and share insights without starting from scratch.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Physical books and printed materials lack the digital tools that enable easy organization, search, and insight extraction from handwritten notes and highlights. Readers must manually transcribe or store their annotations, leading to fragmented knowledge and difficulty revisiting ideas.
Solution
Mark II is a smart highlighter that captures handwritten highlights directly from paper or screen and converts them into searchable, organized digital notes. The device recognizes handwriting in over 100 languages, automatically cataloging each highlight and associating it with the source material. Users can instantly migrate existing notes from any note‑taking app, creating a unified repository of their ideas. The platform provides tools to rediscover insights, share annotations with collaborators, and retrieve past highlights through keyword search. By bridging physical reading with digital knowledge management, Mark II streamlines the workflow for anyone who reads extensively.
Target Audience
Primary users are professionals, researchers, and students who regularly read physical books or printed documents and need a seamless way to digitize and manage their annotations.
Features
- High‑precision optical sensor that detects and records highlights on paper and digital screens
- Handwriting recognition supporting 100+ languages for automatic text transcription
- One‑click import of notes from popular note‑taking applications, consolidating existing content
- Integrated organization tools: tagging, categorization, and searchable archive of all highlights
- Insight engine that surfaces recurring themes and connections across a user's reading history
- Easy sharing options for exporting highlights to colleagues or social platforms