Ha! Glad I held out...

Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 27, 2018 at 06:35 PM

In fact, I didn’t *entirely* hold out - I got a Wacom Folio instead, which is a notebook with a cunningly concealed digitiser that responds to a battery-less pen. You’ll find lots of reviews slagging it off, but actually, the Wacom Inkspace app that allows you to sync your notebook with a mobile device or (and many people don’t realise this) a desktop machine is much better than I feared it might be, and pairing/syncing is generally very painless and quick.

For those looking for a convenient and relatively low-priced answer to the bullet journaling/digital recording thing, the Wacom Slate and Folio notebooks represent a genuinely interesting alternative. You can keep your bullet journals entirely analog - but save them regularly to computer and even (if you subscribe to the Wacom network) use handwriting recognition to make better use of your written entries. What’s more, the notebooks are capable of functioning independently of your mobile/desktop device - you can take up to (I think) 100 pages of notes before you have to sync (but I need to check that out in more detail; Wacom’s paucity of detailed information is one of their most irritating attributes). The nice thing about Inkspace is that you can run it on an iPhone, Android phone, iPad, Android tablet, Mac or Windows machine, so you can always sync your latest scribblings with the Cloud and re-sync them with the machine of your choice later on. This works extremely well.