I have been using one for more than three years now - I would never go back. HP is the leader in the Tablet PC market - they have two models available now. The demo in Chicago was done on a Tablet PC (I believe they used a Lenovo model). Of course, this is not limited to Apple users - if you have a Windows notebook that does not have Tablet PC functionality, then you could buy an external tablet as well. While it is true that you could purchase an external digitizing tablet pad, these are not cheap and are certainly not portable. It is not that they are not common - they don't exist. To be clear - there is no such animal as an Apple Tablet notebook or anything else like it. Highrise has a great search function, so if I ever need a future reference, I can search there, find the date of the conversation, and then refer to my paper notes for that day. I can also keep annual goals and development plans linked within each contact.ĭuring one-on-one's, I take paper notes in a notebook, and then transcribe the key points and action items into Highrise. Finally, there is a reasonably good task list function that allows tasks to be associated with each contact. There are spaces for keeping personal information handy (great for recording kids, wives, husbands, pets, etc names and the like) as well as on ongoing diary for each contact. Highrise is intended as a CRM-like tool, but I've found it great if I enter directs as contacts. On a similar topic, I thought I'd mention Highrise ( ) from 37signals as a great one on one tool. I have a few beta invites, PM me if interested. I'm not yet using this for O3's, but thought there may be some more interest in this. It has basic handwriting recognition as well as text recognition within images, which works amazingly well! Their latest beta release is cross-platform (Windows, Mac, web, and iPhone) Your data is stored on the Evernote service, and is automatically synced between clients automatically.

While Apple tablets aren't common, you could use a Wacom tablet or similar with this.Įvernote (previously was a Windows-only 'capture' tool to collect web pages, typed notes, images, etc.

This is a similar product that works on Mac OS as well. I mentioned Evernote ( to a few folks including Mark and Mike. I enjoyed the demo and discussion around Onenote at the Chicago conference last week.

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