Digital inking helps learners learn and provide huge time-saving benefits for educators. Digital inking allows educators to mark learners’ work and create lessons with ease. On a keyboard, students often type their notes, leading to verbatim copying of information, shallower encoding, and limited conceptual understanding. Using a digital pen, students handwrite their notes; demonstrating active summarization, deep encoding, retention, and transfer. Research shows that the more complex the problem, the more beneficial pen use is. This session reviews the benefits of digital inking as aligned with research-based principles and the Windows-based tools aligned with these benefits that educators and learners can quickly implement in any learning environment.