Category: No notepad

One of the things I noted early on about my use of paper notepads was how it often serves the role of a mobile flip chart. I draw (not particularly well) to help explain or explore ideas with others. One of my big bugbears with using web conferencing services like Hangouts is the loss of … Continue reading The no-notebook experiment: day 5

Following on from Wednesday’s experiments in marking up documents I think I’ve come to the conclusion that Evernote works better for me than OneNote. To an extent this is a choice akin to a Moleskine over a Leuctturm1917, mostly in the aesthetics. But there are a few points to rationalise it... OneNote doesn’t support the … Continue reading The no-notebook experiment: day 4

A couple of changes today. First of all, an upgrade of the iPad to iOS11 version 8, which adds in a bit more support for Pencil, and then a shift over to the Microsoft OneNote tool from Evernote. On the OS upgrade, I'm so new to the whole world of iOS that I'm struggling to … Continue reading The no-notebook experiment: day 3

A day of chugging along with Evernote today. A few more suggestions from others about alternative software, but for the most part they are all iOS or iOS/MacOS only, so fail on the multiple platform test. However, Mark Wilson reminded me that OneNote is cross platform. I'd also forgotten that, unlike much of the Office … Continue reading The no-notebook experiment: day 2

And so the experiment begins. A few waves of good luck from the Twitter masses, a few expressions of interest in the outcomes, and one person commenting that I'll be back on the PC before I know it (an interesting immediate misinterpretation of the word "notebook"). I fired up Evernote, swiped the Pencil across the … Continue reading The no-notebook experiment: day 1