[geneven]

I don't have a DX, but I do have a Kindle 2, and I would say that the note-taking experience is quite limited. I take a lot of notes while reading the Kindle 2, and I mainly use a Nokia N810 right next to my Kindle! I like mind-mapping and other cool note-taking devices, of which there are loads, but not for the Kindle.

I had a bad experience with taking lots of notes on my Kindle recently, in fact. The strategy I decided on for the book was to just mark a bunch of words that originate in India in the book Sacred Games, a fantastic book.

Well, after I had marked a zillion words, I went to look at them. The words were all in context, which is not what I wanted. So, there would have been a word, then 4-6 lines of context, and then another word, possibly in the same line! So what did I get for the two words -- the same context, twice. I ended up with 70 pages of notes, mostly consisting of information I didn't want, and I was still in the early part of the book! I ended up DELETING the trash-notes and not using the Kindle for taking them.

Fortunately, it turned out that this fab book Sacred Games, a detective story that transcends the genre and becomes high-quality literature, I think, this excellent book has an appendix.

So I found that when I encountered an unfamiliar word, and there are scads of them, all I had to do is search the book, and the LAST reference was always to the definition of the word, in the Appendix! Then after I read the definition of the word, I just hit the back key and bam! I was back to where I wanted to be.

So the Kindle worked out fine, but I didn't like the note feature, too primitive. I can imagine a memory map program in all black and white on the Kindle 2 -- it could be quite elegant. Or just a cool note program such as Notecase (one of the best, though development has stopped) or Tomboy.