Today's as a gray a day as I've seen in a while, but we've had so little rain I can't complain. Every smidgen helps the fields, which makes the grass grow, which means we can make hay to winter the cows.
The afternoon storms have been easy, not as severe as they could be. I hope I don't regret writing that as the day heats up!
I bought myself a new toy for my birthday - A Quickpad Pro.
It weighs 1.5 pounds and uses 4 AA batteries. The batteries are supposed to last 50 hours. It has a screen that will handle about 16 lines of type.
It is monochrome with no backlight. The lack of a backlight is probably it's biggest failure.
I am using it at meetings. As I get older, my handwriting, already crimped and nearly illegible, has worsened. I was afraid I'd miss things in my notebook simply because I couldn't read it.
I type very quickly (my last test was 90 words a minute), so I thought this would work. I have a old laptop but its battery won't hold out for an entire meeting and it's difficult to find electrical outlets in some of the places I must go for meetings.
The Quickpad is working well for this. I save my entries on a compact flash disk and since my computer has a compact flash drive in it, I just insert, and the document pops up in Notepad. Copy and paste it into MS Word and there you go. My notes of the meeting right in front of me. No retyping, no squinting trying to make out the words.
I suspect it makes me look rather nerdy - using this little thing instead of a laptop - but I like it so I guess that's all that matters.
I mostly write stuff for memory. Occasionally I take notes but if I don't process them quickly, soon I can't read my own writing. My husband got me an audio recorder but I not auditory, more kinesetic and it didn't take. So we took it back.
ReplyDeleteI think you'd look pretty flash - not nerdy!
ReplyDeleteAnything that makes life easier is worth trying... Actually that probably isn't a very good statement. How about we leave it at 'I like the look of the computer notepad' instead?
this looks good. more convenient than a laptop.
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