Writing on the MyNote requires the special, included, AAA-battery-powered stylus.

Beyond digital pen and paper

Digital pens and digital notebooks are radically superior alternatives to old-school pen-and-paper note taking. But they're not the only options for digitizing business meeting information.

For instance, you can capture useful whiteboard scribbles with your camera phone, and keep the image with your digital notes on the meeting. Digital voice recorders can perfectly capture meeting content (make sure you get the permission of other meeting attendees). And fold-up keyboards can turn your cell phone into a less-obtrusive and quieter alternative to taking notes with a laptop in meetings.

It's time to do something about that last vestige of pen-and-paper business information capture and storage because any information you can't index, search and easily duplicate electronically isn't worth the paper it's written on.