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Re:Ask HN: Best note-taking device? by lowkey on Saturday June 09, 2012 @12:28PM (#4088428)
One tool I am seriously considering for "quick and dirty" scratch paper-style note taking is the Boogie Board tablet. It is a simple, low-cost LCD tablet with a pressure sensitive stylus and costs about $40 for the 8.5in original.

I see it as more of an appliance than a tablet, serving one purpose really well. It's like an etch-a-sketch for adults. I find that in programming I often need to scratch paper to track variables or do simple state diagrams and once I've solved the problem I no longer need the paper.

I haven't tried it IRL yet, but at that price, I think I will. Call it a kindle meets etch-a-sketch.

http://www.improvelectronics.com/us/en/boogie-board-LCD-writ...

Re:Ask HN: Best note-taking device? by rhomboss on Saturday June 09, 2012 @12:37PM (#4088455)
It's a neat little device. I bought mine probably a year or so ago and it's sat largely un-used. I think they were fairly new when I got mine, so these issues might have been fixed, but...

1) small size (think mine's 7 inches or so?) 2) difficult/impossible to write small enough to fit a good amount 3) no way to save pages (in any way). I tried to hack my way around this by snapping pictures of full pages, but it just became too much of a hassle.