Do you have a personal process for time management and do you use certain time management tools to help you? I don’t know about you, but I have always struggled in this area. I might be able to get a system of sorts working in a certain way, maybe with a nice tool to support the process. But sooner or later the system always seems to break down, either due to the process being too time consuming to cope with the real world, or more likely due to my own failings in terms of an ability to stick with it.

Over time I have come to the conclusion that time management really only works for the people who are already wired to be good at time management, and not the people who really need the help! I still keep on trying new systems though! Digital pens sit in the same sort of category. They are really only useful for people who are already very good at taking notes. Owning a digital pen is not going to turn you into a good note taker. So for me not really something that would be useful.

Until recently digital pens relied on tablets or at best specially designed notebooks. The best of these is the Logitech IO2 digital pen, of which I have heard a number of good reports. This system is one that requires you to purchase reasonably inexpensive smart notepads in which to take your notes. However there are a number of devices under development and due for release shortly that have caught my eye. These will be able to take digital notes, even when writing in a normal paper notebook or on a scrap of paper! When these are released I am planning on taking the plunge. In the meantime I am trying to bring more order to my present note taking, with the perhaps vain hope that in the future a digital pen will have something to make sense of!