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Tools for taking notes and sharing on the go

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Moleskin Smart Writing Set   As a product person, I am always thinking about unmet needs, ways of working, and pain points. One of those in my professional life is taking notes. I have tried Evernote on a tablet, into Word on a laptop but always come back to pencil and moleskin notepad. This then is a bit of faff in finding notes at a later date or sharing with colleagues. Scanner apps that create PDFs help, but I usually forget and take a photo that I then ping off by email. Imagine my excitement when I heard about the reMarkable tablet in development: The paper tablet for people who prefer paper. Here to replace your notebooks, sketchbooks and printouts. Paper-like reading, writing and sketching with digital powers. Sounds great! This has the potential to do for note taking what the Kindle did for eBooks. But it is still only on pre-order and my birthday was this month. So for around the same amount of money I have got two tools. The Moleskin Smartpen with "pap

Welcome, a re-introduction to my blog

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I started this blog over 5 years ago now and it feels like an exciting new chapter in my life is beginning, so thought I share some of this and what it might mean for my humble blog. I started to write about my work and how what I saw measured against the theory. Although w ork is an exciting place at the moment. With three projects due to go live in the next three months that will complete the vision that has guided me in the past 2 years. I won't write about them too much here as we now have a much more active work blog that I'm scheduled to write on. Some of the things that we have discovered during this work will lead to new features that I'd also love to talk about, but need to keep under wraps until we are ready to reveal them! So what will I be writing about? Well, more book reviews and more meetup reports. Also something personally exciting as I am starting a side project that allows me to apply lessons learned from HBX CORe , Impact Mapping , Jol t by Justin J