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Originally Posted by BookCat
If you ever do get into keyboarding, there's always the very portable, full-keyboard size AlphaSmart Neo.
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I have one, BookCat and it is da-bomb. I recently even replaced the little battery inside it (there's still an active AlphaSmart community on Flickr (of all places)).
The Neo2 is fantastic for brain dumps of typing with no interruptions. However, I do most of my writing in cafes & whatnot and frankly, where I live, the Neo is a crowd puller. Which is nice, but I tend to feel self conscious wherever I use it. People just are fascinated by it and there's always lots of questions.
But for writing without editing - just going for it - I don't think the Neo can be beat. Half the time, I forget what I've written until I slurp it back to the computer.
Update on scanning: It's going pretty well. I'm editing before incorporating the writing into my WIPs. I'm scanning using Readlle ScannerPro* into Evernote and I can view my scratchings there easily (and anywhere).
* Although the MS app was groovier (really excellent functionality), I couldn't get it to send the scans to Evernote and I don't have Word on my laptop, so it was a bit tricky. I think it does use Dropbox, but I have to be careful with my DB syncing because Scrivener gets all out of whack if I'm not careful.