A quill enchanted to take dictation. The quill is commonly enchanted with the activation phrase "take a note" and stops with the phrase "quill down." It will write down everything the caster says thereafter to a maximum time of one hour with an hour of down-time (hence the phrase "down-time") or when an inkpot is no longer within three feet of the quill. Otherwise the quill will periodically continue to scribe things out.