Just over a month ago I brought you the Flowtica Scribe — the AI smart pen that records while you write — and I was genuinely amazed by it. But that was a few weeks of testing. The real question with any gadget is what happens after you live with it. Does it become part of how you work, or does it end up in a drawer like so many others do? And this month was the perfect stress test: more brands, more calls, more videos in production at once, and I'm launching a new business called Search Takeover. The busier it gets, the more a missed detail on a call costs you.

So today it's the Flowtica Scribe one month later — plus the new Flowtica Folio, the recycled-leather notebook built for the Scribe. We're doing a real conference call, a real brainstorming session, and I'll show you where it's been every day for the last month, all here on the Gold Coast. One honest note up front: I went through every spec properly in my first Flowtica Scribe review, so this one is about what's actually mattered in daily use — and this is one month of my own use, not a long-term durability test.

▶Watch: Flowtica Scribe One Month Later

01Where It's Lived for a Month

The beach walk is what sold me in the first review, and a month later that's still exactly how I use it. But it's gone a lot further than the beach. The pen and the Folio now go with me everywhere — meetings, calls, the desk, out walking. Most of the time I just hold the button, it records, and the notes come to me.

But I also jot things down, and a lot of what I write isn't words — it's pictures and diagrams. How a video is going to flow, where the shots go, how a deal is laid out. You can't record a drawing. That's the bit that's changed most for me: I now get what I drew and what was said, together.

And it's light, which is exactly why it's in my pocket every day — 34.5g, just under 6 inches, and it clips in like any other pen.

02The Flowtica Folio: Pen Into a Kit

Guys, the Folio is beautiful. You pick it up and it's 100% recycled leather on the outside with a microfibre suede lining inside — it feels like something you actually want to carry. There are card slots in the front for your essentials, and my favourite detail: a pen strap cut to the Scribe's exact diameter. Slide the pen in and it sits there snug. Close the cover, wrap the elastic band around, and that's the whole kit in one hand.

The pages are about A6 (5.5 × 3.9 in), there are 192 pages, and it's refillable — when it's full, you just swap the insert, and it takes inserts up to 0.8 in thick. It really is lovely to use, and the perfect size to carry around.

03A Real Conference Call: FlowMark & Who Said What

To show you how it works in a real conversation, Ronnie joined me to plan our upcoming Bali trip — where we're staying in Seminyak, Finns Beach Club, and the very important question of drinks (beer, ginger beer and moscato, for the record — and no, Ronnie is too shy for dancing). Press the button, a beep, the red light comes on, and we're recording.

While we talked I was writing like I always have — notes and a quick diagram on paper — with the Scribe backing up the whole conversation as audio underneath. Here's the important bit: when something matters, I tap the FlowMark button with my thumb and that moment is flagged. Hold the button to end, two buzzes, and that's it. The transcript, summary and action items are all generated.

That's FlowTrans — it transfers in the background over Bluetooth. No cables, no importing. The Scribe is MFi certified (Apple's "Made for iPhone" stamp), so the connection holds — and if a call comes in on my phone mid-meeting, it doesn't stop the recording. It works on iOS 16+ and Android 12+.

The moment I FlowMarked shows up in bold and italic in the summary and highlighted yellow in the transcript. It also splits who said what: it picks up up to 15 speakers, up to 5 metres away, takes about 30 seconds of someone talking to learn their voice, then tags them automatically.

My one tip for the month: when recording a call, put the pen on the table, not in your top pocket. Same thing I found in the first review — closest to you means you're the loudest. On the table, everyone sounds even.

04Snap It: Handwriting Next to the Recording

This is where the Folio earns its place. That page — my notes and the diagram from the call — I open the app, snap a photo of the page, and it turns it into a clean, easy-to-read note. It enhances the image, makes a memo, and pulls out follow-ups for me. Now my handwriting and my drawing sit right next to the recording of the call — searchable and shareable.

You can talk while you snap, too. I took a page and said "remind me to follow up with Karina on Friday," and it was straight on my to-do list. No typing.

To be fair: Snap It works on any paper — I tried a bit of normal note paper and it takes the photo. But only Folio pages get the automatic memo and enhanced image. So if you write a lot, that's the reason the Folio exists.

05Brainstorming Search Takeover

The one thing I'm doing more of than anything is brainstorming. Every brand and every product needs a video planned — and this month I've also been building Search Takeover. So I sat down at home with the Folio in front of me, held the button, and talked it through while I wrote.

We've already got blog articles and videos going on MrYouWho and the other channels. Next on the list: a podcast built from the videos, setting up the social channels with Metricool for scheduling, and getting the PDF working on the online score calculator — all before I go on holidays at the end of next week. Then I drew the ecosystem I want: blogs, YouTube, podcasts, syndication across the channels, videos appearing on other channels, and courses.

Snap the page, and there it is in the app — the diagram, my notes, and everything I said, combined. It fits together perfectly: the calls, the ideas at the beach, the brainstorms, and building ideas from what I've actually been saying.

06Ask Flowtica: A Month of My Business, Searchable

That's the real difference after a month. The first review had a few recordings in there. Now it's a month of my business. I can ask questions by topic or by who said it, and get an answer in seconds instead of scrubbing back through hours of audio.

I held the button and asked Flowtica: what were the top moments from my business over the last month? It searched across all my recordings and transcriptions and pulled out the key ones — the Search Takeover launch and the seven-step framework I'd completed, the new podcast, plans for social media, and starting work with Abby, my new bookkeeper. Then I asked it to expand on Search Takeover specifically, and because it's AI, you can drill into any part of it.

You can also attach a photo to a conversation and ask it to interpret it. I added the handwritten page from the Bali call, and it read it back — Finns Beach Club, the drink preferences, the group's outing — and enhanced the image so it's easier to read. I'm a very visual person: in a meeting you can miss things listening, and you can miss things in your own notes, so having both combined is perfect.

You can shape how it works, too — tap the three dots top right, go to Set Preference, and choose how your notes and summaries are structured, or leave it to Flowtica.

07What Actually Mattered After a Month

The everyday stuff is still exactly where I left it — the beach walk, most mornings out by the river, and yes, still the shopping list from the original review. Here's the quick version of what's mattered:

Battery has been amazing — honestly, it's the thing I've thought about least all month. About 30 hours of recording in the pen, and with the charging case that's up to 100 hours total. The pen charges inside the case, and the case charges with the same USB cable as my phone, so I've never carried anything extra. It came with 20 refills, and the case has a slot for a spare so I'm never caught short.

The case has Apple Find My built in — with how much I'm moving around now, that matters, because I can quite often leave stuff behind. It records to the pen first, so no signal is no problem; it catches up when you're back online. And for someone running a lot of channels in a lot of countries, it handles 92 languages.

On privacy: recordings are encrypted, and Flowtica says there's no selling your data, no data brokers, and no third-party training on your conversations.

08Why It Stuck: How Easy It Is

So what's actually made it part of my business? How easy it is. After a month, I don't think about it. It's just how I take notes now. Hold the button, buzz, talk, tap your thumb if something matters, hold it again, two buzzes, done. I never open the app to record — it's in my pocket or in the Folio. By the time I've made a coffee, it's transcribed, summarised, and the action items are sitting there.

There's no learning curve. And what I love most is that I use it every day. I've had plenty of complicated gadgets that just sit in a drawer — this one is still on me.

⚙Flowtica Scribe & Folio: Key Specs

Full pen specs — storage, mic, AI models and more — are in my original Flowtica Scribe review. Battery and language figures are from Flowtica's listing; my testing was a month of real-world use, not lab measurement.

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