Have you tried using DigiMemo? I haven’t, but I’m very curious about it. It’s a wireless pen based digital memo pad that can capture handwritten notes and drawings, and save them on flash disk. I didn’t think OCR (Optical Character Recognition) could be this awesome! My only brush with OCR was when I worked for a data processing company while pushing for a college degree. And that was, uhm, 9 years ago.

Anyway, this digital memo pad caught my fancy because I thought it would be cool to use it when taking notes during an interview or event coverage.

You see, I type really fast on QWERTY keyboard. But it’s a useless skill when I’m doing face-to-face interviews or taking notes from a speech, because I don’t normally bring a computer on such occasion. I scribble on my pad. Writing by hand seems to help me retain important facts. At the end of the day though, I have to sit down and organize all my notes, transcribe them and make sense of them all, including marginal notes. You and I know it can be tiring.

Since the DigiMemo Handwriting Recognition can convert handwritten notes from DigiMemo into digital text to be processed by Microsoft Word, Outlook or Lotus Notes… whoopee, transcribing would be a thing of the past!

If you’ve tried using any brand of digital memo pad, I’d like to know what you think of it.