 | Taking notes 24x7 |
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12 May 2008, 17:32
Andrew Hunt (45 posts) |
I’ve had a couple of readers point out some neat gear for note taking:
Enjoy! /\ndy |
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11 Dec 2008, 18:43
Erik Przekop (3 posts) |
You can also check out the Black Cover Blog for reviews of different portable notebooks. I found it when following your advice to write on paper more often, and the site is wonderfully geeky. My ultra-portable capture device is my phone, but paper is much quicker. I’ll see when some of the smaller notebooks arrive (I wanted to try a plain paper version of several, but Office Max only carries them with rule lines). BTW, my M.O. for paper notes (when I take them) is to scan or photograph them, then stuff them into OneNote. This solves both the capture and retrieval problems for me – OneNote (and probably your Mac based note software as well) can index even cursive writing through OCR, and has a pretty good hit rate. YMMV depending on penmanship, of course… |
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28 Dec 2008, 04:45
Zachary Pinter (1 post) |
I just recently picked up the livescribe pen href=”http://www.livescribe.com”>http://www.livescribe.com and have been quite happy with it. You can find moleskin style notebooks for it on Amazon href=”http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001AALJ2M”>http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001AALJ2M The nice thing about digital pens is that you get all the benefits of paper, but you also get your notes archived (and even indexed) digitally. The Mac software could still use some work, but it’s usable in its current state. |
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10 May 2009, 15:31
John DiMatteo (1 post) |
I love paper and pencil, but I also tend to loose everything I write, so livescribe sounds pretty great. Zachary, has it proven useful in the long term? Do you use it all the time? Or is it a sort of novelty that wears off and you wish you had back your $150 or whatever you paid for it? Taking notes 24/7 for me is usually me writing on a pad of paper, then transferring to my personal wiki next time I’m at an internet connection. I use a free personal licence of Confluence as my personal wiki—it is pretty friggen great and I highly recommend it: http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/pe… |
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04 Aug 2009, 21:13
Christopher Patti (5 posts) |
The personal Wiki is a great tool for creating an organically linked set of captured notes and ideas. There are a bunch of software choices in this area, but one that I like and use, and that has the added feature of being free (as in beer), open source and cross platform is WikidPad – http://wikidpad.sourceforge.net/http://wikidpad… Before I found myself manacled to a Windows box all day long at work, I really enjoyed Flying Meat Software’s VoodooPad for the Mac. |
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04 Apr 2010, 21:32
Jeremy Daughhetee (1 post) |
There are dozens (hundreds?) of blogs discussing the tools to use to capture, organize, etc… Its very easy for me to get lost in the search of the perfect tools and loose sight of what I should really be doing and thats creating. Merlin Mann’s 43folders previously focused on the tools and the “how” of capture. He has since revamped the site in an effort to shift focus to creation. It doesn’t matter what you use, set something up, get a system in place quickly and get back to creating. |
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28 Dec 2010, 20:59
Patrick Lane (2 posts) |
I perfer a pen that comes grip-equiped and feels nice in between the fingers. The “Zebra F-402 Series” does just that.The ink oozes out without having to blow your hot breath on it or shake n scribble. |
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