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Ask Slashdot: What's a Good Tablet/App Combination For Note-Taking?
EmagGeek writes "My wife recently started back to school to finish her 4-year degree, and one of the things that we've been considering is procuring for her some kind of tablet that would enable her to take notes in class and save them electronically. This would obviate the need to carry around a bunch of paper, and could even be used to store e-textbooks so she doesn't have to lug 30lbs of books around campus. At minimum, she would have to be able to write freehand on the tablet with a fine-point stylus, just like she would write on paper with a pen. We've seen what we call those 'fat finger' styli and found that they are not good for fine writing. Having become frustrated with the offerings we've tried so far, I thought I would ping the Slashdot Community. Any suggestions?"
Just for the record, saying "Android and iOS are great consumers of content but they're terrible producers" because of issues with capturing text is missing the forest for the trees.
Graphic artists are having a field day with tablets, and for many musicians, an iPad is the greatest invention since..... ever.
The idea that tablets are for consumption and not production *really* needs to die. As a songwriter, I've never been so productive.
It's not entirely germane to the OP, but it needed to be said.