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I'd love an A4 sized one of these and a screen, monochrome would be fine, I spent so much of my life drawing out code/approaches on squared pads only to leave the pad at the office.

All I would want is some way of indexing them and one press to send as an email.

I'd drop 200 quid on that right now.

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Have you looked at Boogie Board Sync?

http://www.myboogieboard.com/na/products/boogie-board-sync-9...

I tried it. I really wanted to like it, but the writing screen was just not bright enough for me. May be it will work for you.

I absolutely hadn't but that looks damn interesting, thanks!

What was the delay like in actual usage?

EDIT: This is literally what I was describing and have wanted for ages, US only but some ebay.co.uk vendors have them! I'm having one of these soon!

Sony's Digital Paper does that and only that. It allows you to read and mark up pdfs with a pen and nothing more. Unfortunately, it's $800 USD.

http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/show-digitalpaper/resource.solu...

That's more or less what a Surface Pro with OneNote (and OneDrive) does. But it isn't even ballpark $200. More like $700+.

Indeed and I've considered it a bunch of times but I have a fast android tablet and a nice laptop/desktop setup running Xubuntu.

$200 would be ideal, I don't need a tablet just a high quality portable digitizer rather than another tablet.

Next tablet upgrade might well be a surface pro though even running Windows (which I haven't done for a decade) as I'd really like instant access to all of my sketches going back months or years.

EDIT: It would be incredibly useful to pull up a sketch of an architecture against a git timestamp so I could figure out WTF I was thinking at the time ;).

I've got a workflow that gets close to that - I use a "smart pen" for architecture diagrams, you have to write on special paper but in exchange you get a digital version of everything you write/draw, indexed by time (and, if you want, you can record audio as you're writing/drawing and later replay the audio it recorded by pointing at some part of the text)

It's quite useful for architecture diagrams, and for capturing requirements in a meeting (because you've got full audio of what the client said).

The main drawback of the pen I use is it's quite bulky (I use a pen from livescribe), although I suspect there will be better-proportioned pens nowadays...

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