The feel was just like using pen and paper. My first experience when starting up the device and picking up the pen blew me away. A device I had seen a few times online and tested once in a Microsoft Store in New York. Many were also the devices I tested.įast forward to January 2018, when starting in a new position I was handed a Microsoft Surface Pro. Many were the times too when I smirked at a person trying hard to convince me to use an electronic pen or the latest tablet device. No tablet, and no touch screen larger than the one on my phone. Upgrading the pen and paper experience.įor the next 7 or so years, my trusty paper notebook combined with my laptop and smartphone made the core of my productivity tools. To be honest, I think it just came down the fact that it couldn’t replace the feel of pen and paper - arguably one of the best user interfaces ever created. Why did this happen? For a device that clearly did so much more than my simple paper notebook and was much more practical to carry around than my laptop, it should have been offering endless benefits and reasons to use it. A year or two passed and I sold the device. Still great for entertainment, but it had lost its place as a productivity tool for me. My iPad was demoted to lay on the coffee table and was merely used to browse news sites, subscribe to one or two papers and magazines and play the occasional game of Angry Birds. Maybe 3 or 4 months later however, I noticed I had gone back to my paper notebook for taking notes and keeping track of to-dos. I was also sure it would replace my paper notebook and I carried it with me everywhere. I was sure it would take my productivity to new heights. I was excited to get it as I had tested it a couple times in a store and with friends who already had one.
I purchased the 2nd generation iPad shortly after it came out in 2011.
My relationship with devices and pen and paper has changed over the years, but never as much as recently.
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