Wondering about a cheap stylus/pad for doodling

[DirtyDog]

I had something similar by Staedtler, one of these, which has a little doodah which clips onto your pad and a special pen, and it uses ultrasound or something to track the pen. It was OK for capturing pages as images but the handwriting recognition, which is why I bought it, wasn't up to much. The Wacom inkling does something similar I believe.

Unless it's moved on significantly in recent years, handwriting recognition is useless. I "trained" the digimemo a number of times, and it still couldn't recognize my writing, unless I printed every word, which sort of defeated the object.

I was mainly using it so that I had a digital copy of my notes from a particularly fraught project - I knew I was likely to get rid of the paper notes, but I still have the digital copies.

The good thing is that it's a normal pen, on normal paper, which makes drawing and writing a lot more reliable than using a tablet.