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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
...Somehow I get the feeling that the tablet is simply too big to be useful as pen and paper replacement despite the hype of OneNote...
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I'm not writing many notes (anymore).
But even for the few ones I take, I've switched to a rather simple solution:
I've bought the Livescribe 3 pen
http://www.livescribe.com/en-us/smartpen/ls3/.
Via Bluetooth ("on the fly" or later on) I send the notes to iOS (no PC app yet, unfortunately). Here I can send to OneNote or Evernote and so on or convert to readable text.
It works surprisingly well.
And I write on a "normal" journal (using special dot paper, but looking and feeling "real").
No Windows app. But iOS is okay. You don't have to take iPad/iPhone with you, of course the pen can save hundreds of pages in its internal memory.
I've drafted a few presentations on Surface Pro 2 in OneNote.
Feedback was great, some even asked about my "special font".
For a presentation, it's fine. You spend more time thinking and planning, than actually writing.
But I'd never jot down endless pages of protocols or something like that.
I still find pen and paper more convenient for that (or try to avoid too many notes anyway).
It's probably just me: But I can put my paper journal without any thoughts on a dirty desk or the tray on a train. With my tablets, I'm very picky where to put them. I can put my DIN A5 paper journal in my suit pocket. With my tablet, I'd always worry about someone bumping into me or scratching the back of the tablet with my keys and so on...