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I'm a software researcher considering whether a tablet (the X60t) will help my productivity or whether I should stay with an X60 (non-tablet).

I would love to be able to easily create hybrid text/drawing documents. These would mostly be to communicate ideas to teammembers so collaboration is very important. I'm currently using Google Docs (formerly Writely) for project documentation and I don't see how I'd integrate tablet-generated drawings into text docs except by exporting as bitmap and inserting image (which is a big drag). I haven't seen any other tablet-enabled notetaking apps which support web-based collaboration...am I missing any?

EverNote was great a few years ago when I last evaluated it but they don't seem to be getting much traction (all the reviews I can see for them are from 2005). For example, they still don't synchronize in a useful way.

OneNote a few years ago was pretty kludgy, as one would expect from a Microsoft product. I haven't looked at ON2007.

The following link is a forum for student tablet note-taking
http://www.studenttabletpc.com/forum.st ... m.php?id=4

Other applications I don't know much about include:
GoBinder...but this seems more for annotating other people's documents.

MindManager looks hard to evaluate without a large amt of effort to get through the learning curve.

Microsoft Journal looks to be a free single-page editor version of OneNote.[/list][/url]

rokahn,

I'm also in software, frequently having to do several hybrid text /drawing sessions. I'm only 1 month into using an x41t ,but finding One note 2007 to be a lifesaver. As for exporting the information out, ON2007 can email out in PDF format, html, and onenote extension. So far PDF has worked out well, and will be working on getting the HTML out to our wiki.

The only other program I extensively use is Mindmanager So far I'm not able to ink as fast as I'd like to in that interface. Will be trying out MS journal Soon.

BTW, I inked all of this, and it's taken me about 10x's longer than if I typed. Proficiency curve is pretty long.

Even Onenote 2003 isn't bad for note taking either. If you are a student you can get it really cheap (<$20). I use a graphics tablet, so I don't get the pen pressure and handwriting recognition features, but it does it's job.

kskim91 wrote:Even Onenote 2003 isn't bad for note taking either. If you are a student you can get it really cheap (<$20). I use a graphics tablet, so I don't get the pen pressure and handwriting recognition features, but it does it's job.

how did you score OneNote for that price, microsoft.com says $49.

little a wrote:

kskim91 wrote:Even Onenote 2003 isn't bad for note taking either. If you are a student you can get it really cheap (<$20). I use a graphics tablet, so I don't get the pen pressure and handwriting recognition features, but it does it's job.

how did you score OneNote for that price, microsoft.com says $49.

Student/Educational price, I think via his school. Discounts on educational "branded" software is awesome, I can get Office 2003 Pro for around $99 and Project 2003 for around the same price. My school has a limit 1 copy/license that can be purchased per student. I get discounts on almost any major pc vendors pc (via school) except for Lenovo/IBM....