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I have been searching for the holy grail of note taking for a while now. I switch from analog to digital and back like a manic note taker. This sounds very prom

I have been searching for the holy grail of note taking for a while now. I switch from analog to digital and back like a manic note taker. This sounds very promising.

elcritch 11y ago
Same story here... Tried lots of different combos. Nothing was quite right. Just picked a 12" iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. It's been fantastic! I'm glad I tried the 12, it's pretty much the size of a piece of paper. Now apps are still limited but it's a new favorite for me.
- SyneRyder 11y ago
  For a cheaper & smaller alternative, also worth looking at the Samsung Galaxy Tab A with S-Pen 8.0. Convoluted name, but I love it, and it is dramatically cheaper than an iPad Pro. I think it compares favorably too, I've tried both & I don't feel the Galaxy Tab lags too far behind the iPad Pro in latency. I'm not a heavy writer, but for me it has replaced paper note-taking during phone calls or webinars, or times when I need to sketch or write an idea out on paper (sometimes I find typing doesn't help me solve a coding problem, but writing with a pen does - writing on the Galaxy Tab is giving me that same mental shift). And of course it syncs with Evernote & you can resize/move objects you've sketched and all the other good things.
- daveguy 11y ago
  Does that feel right when you write on it? My main complaint with any stylus type input is that it feels like you are writing on ice. The tip just slides around and makes it more trouble than it is worth. Did Apple fix that?
noir_lord 11y ago
I use cheap 5mm A4 pads, a decent gel pen and CamScanner for android. Since I always have my phone on me the 'scanner' part is essentially portable and the pads cost me about 70p each. It works well for me anyway.
- domsl 11y ago
  Interesting - can I ask you how what you do with the images of your pads? Do you just keep it in folders or do you insert them in to some note taking program?
  - noir_lord 11y ago
    I just keep them all in Dropbox folders by Year/Month/Day so 2016/04/10
TheLogothete 11y ago
Why not just write in a nice notebook/journal and take photos to upload to Onenote or Evernote?
Aleman360 11y ago
I just use a scratch piece of paper and toss it at the end of the day. Anything that's useful enough to keep is useful to other people too, so that goes into the team wiki.

I have been searching for the holy grail of note taking for a while now. I switch from analog to digital and back like a manic note taker. This sounds very promising.

elcritch 11y ago

Same story here... Tried lots of different combos. Nothing was quite right. Just picked a 12" iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. It's been fantastic! I'm glad I tried the 12, it's pretty much the size of a piece of paper. Now apps are still limited but it's a new favorite for me.

SyneRyder 11y ago
For a cheaper & smaller alternative, also worth looking at the Samsung Galaxy Tab A with S-Pen 8.0. Convoluted name, but I love it, and it is dramatically cheaper than an iPad Pro. I think it compares favorably too, I've tried both & I don't feel the Galaxy Tab lags too far behind the iPad Pro in latency. I'm not a heavy writer, but for me it has replaced paper note-taking during phone calls or webinars, or times when I need to sketch or write an idea out on paper (sometimes I find typing doesn't help me solve a coding problem, but writing with a pen does - writing on the Galaxy Tab is giving me that same mental shift). And of course it syncs with Evernote & you can resize/move objects you've sketched and all the other good things.
daveguy 11y ago
Does that feel right when you write on it? My main complaint with any stylus type input is that it feels like you are writing on ice. The tip just slides around and makes it more trouble than it is worth. Did Apple fix that?

noir_lord 11y ago

I use cheap 5mm A4 pads, a decent gel pen and CamScanner for android. Since I always have my phone on me the 'scanner' part is essentially portable and the pads cost me about 70p each. It works well for me anyway.

domsl 11y ago
Interesting - can I ask you how what you do with the images of your pads? Do you just keep it in folders or do you insert them in to some note taking program?
- noir_lord 11y ago
  I just keep them all in Dropbox folders by Year/Month/Day so 2016/04/10

TheLogothete 11y ago

Why not just write in a nice notebook/journal and take photos to upload to Onenote or Evernote?

Aleman360 11y ago

I just use a scratch piece of paper and toss it at the end of the day. Anything that's useful enough to keep is useful to other people too, so that goes into the team wiki.