THE REMARKABLE PAPER PRO TABLET
A distraction-free tablet that transcribes your handwriting into legible type
On his first day of work, in 1977, your columnist began what would become a lifetime habit of using a letter-size legal pad for everything from to-do lists to phone-interview notes to notes to self. These notepads were never thrown away and would accumulate at a rate of about two per month. Every now and then, there would be a frantic scrabbling through the pile for a particular note or phone number.
The system was efficient, but it became unwieldy as the notepad-mountain grew. By the end of the last decade, there were the better part of a thousand of these jotters hunkering down in a storage unit. Locating a vital note from 10—or was it 20?—years ago became a morning’s work. The invention of the iPad briefly seemed to offer hope of a neater technological solution, but even when the iPad Pencil was launched in 2015, it just wasn’t suitable. Writing on a glassy iPad screen was too awkward.
