![]() ![]() ![]() In combination with a good stylus, it proved to be just what I needed, the perfect virtual replacement for a physical notebook. There are different “paper” styles in Penultimate (graph paper, lined paper, blank paper) and even the ability to create your own paper styles. You can add pages, shift the pages around, and of course, send the pages, or the entire notebook into Evernote. Penultimate allows you to create notebooks and sketch or write in them. The solution that I ultimately landed on was another Evernote tool: Penultimate. And while this is a very cool feature, I was committed to finding a solution without paper. Of course, Evernote has partnered with Moleskine to produce an Evernote “Smart” Moleskine notebook that you can write on and then use the Evernote photo scanner function to capture the pages (and even tag them automatically) in Evernote. While typing is great, and fast, sometimes I found I wanted to sketch out an idea, something I couldn’t easily do with keystrokes. The mechanics of typing is different from writing longhand. Of course, I had my iPad and Evernote and I could quickly open up a note and begin typing–but the problem was, typing wasn’t always the solution I needed. The more I went to conventions and hung around these other writers, the more I saw how useful and convenient it was to be able to scribble something down on paper. Until I few years ago, I, too, used a Moleskine notebook to jot down whatever happened to occur to me on a given moment. At a science fiction convention panel audiences seem roughly split between those with tablets and those with Moleskine notebooks. Just about every writer I know these days carries around a Moleskine notebook to jot down thoughts or ideas. Recently, however, I’ve found ways to recreate that notebook without paper and it has been a lifesaver! Let me explain. So tricky was it, that I stubbornly gave up the notebook entirely, rather than having to still use paper. The trickiest thing for me, back then, was converting my pocket notebook to digital format. There were the occasional pieces of paper I had to handle, but mostly I tried to do everything that I used to do on paper in digital form. When I went paperless–now going on more than two years ago–I tried to go pretty much wholesale. ![]()
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