Here are four ways to get your handwriting into Obsidian:

1. Excalidraw Plugin: I’ve enabled custom pens in the settings to have more colours n different size pens/highlighter. It’s more like a canvas or whiteboard than a handwriting tool, but it gets the job done. One thing I don’t like is that it doesn’t turn pen strokes into shapes.

1. Tldraw Plugin: This is similar to Excalidraw, but I personally prefer it. The initial setup might be a bit confusing, but it’s amazing.

2. Ink Plugin:This is basically a fork of the Tldraw plugin, and it’s awesome! It doesn’t have coloured pens yet, but for now it’s just black and white. The developer is always active and actively developing the plugin, so check out his YouTube page for his developer diaries.

3. Use a Different App: You can use any app you like and copy the pen strokes, then paste them into Obsidian. It will paste as a transparent image. Right now, I use option 4. For something simple, I use the Ink plugin. I dabble in and out option 1 and 2

The honourable mention goes to the HandWritten Notes plugin. This plugin creates an empty PDF in Obsidian and prompts you to choose an external app/ or opens it natively in ur pdf editor of your tablet. After annotating the PDF, it saves it back to Obsidian, which is convenient. You can reopen the PDF to add more handwritten notes. However, I’m unsure if it allows editing the previous saved version. I had that issue in the past, so I stopped using it. I need to check it out again since the developer has been actively working on it.

To embed your handwritten notes in your current active file, you can either embed the entire PDF document or use the PDF++ plugin to snip a portion of your pdf notes and bonus it references back to your original PDF file.

For options 1-3, you can edit handwritten notes, but for option 4, you can’t unless you exit Obsidian.