How do you take notes in meetings?

Tablet or Notebook? Moleskine, anyone…..

Three years ago, the move from laptops and notebooks to tablets in meetings was noticeable.

If you didn’t have one, you definitely felt a little technologically challenged. Move to November, 2014, and what do you see?

A myriad shaped moleskine notebooks emerging, mostly black!

Trends in Usage

Laptops are getting smaller, only to be augmented by huge screens on desks, loose keyboards and additional disk drives. (Although the laptop is effectively being used as a mobile disk drive.) I assume that, in some cases, this set up is duplicated in home offices.

So laptops are easy and light to carry into meetings, and, of course, tablets have added keyboards and yet….

In meeting after meeting, I am seeing the switch back to notebooks and pens.

Mini Research Project

Is it just my perception? Or are some of you noticing the same thing?

Links, References and Notes

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