Systems and methods for extracting and digitizing information from a sheet of material to facilitate organization of information are provided. An example system includes a sheet of material such as that from a planner, notebook, a stack of repositionable notes, or another similar writing surface, and a device for scanning the sheet with an optical sensor. The sheet of material includes markings thereupon and computer readable indicators. The device includes a processor operably coupled to the optical sensor for causing the optical sensor to scan the sheet, send the scan to a server computer, and receive scanned text from the server computer. Upon receiving the scanned text, a ruleset may be applied to format the text and the formatted information is presented on a display of the device.