I just bought a whiteboard. Oh, how I love whiteboards! Those great big open expanses of scribble space are truly inspiring; they free the mind to wander.
My other favorite scribble spaces:
- my Moleskine notebook
- a great big office desk (cleaned off regularly to remove unwanted distractions)
- a large LCD monitor
- Notepad++
- 37 Signal’s Backpack, Basecamp, and Writeboard
- Microsoft Excel (go to Options > View > Gridlines, and turn off the lines)
Bliss.
I’d like to use OneNote more often I know lots of people who say that it has totally changed the way they take notes.
I’ve used OneNote a bunch but seem to keep slipping back to simpler things. I’d use it more if it supported tabular data, like Excel. OneNote is awesome on a TabletPC, though, especially the ability to write notes anywhere in 2D space on the page.