Editing The Pen Addict 221/transcript (section)

== Montblanc Augmented Paper ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. So, this is the kind of things that you've heard of us talking and railing on about the handwriting recognition. You know, writing with a pen, getting it into a digital conversion. And this is Montblanc's version of it. And the article I read on it was on The Verge. And they, while I'm not a huge Verge fan or Verge reader, I thought the author, who's this James Vincent, actually did a pretty good job on this, basically with a lot of the I don't get it stuff. You know, the price with anything on Montblanc is going to be the kicker. It's going to be way more outrageous, you know, than any other comparable product for the most part. You know, the Moleskine stuff was around $200, $250, I think. It was around $2, maybe $199. So, but, you know, James comes to the conclusion. He says, for an inverterate note taker like myself, all this seems like a tax on productivity. I create new to-do lists every couple of days, performing triage on the old list to reprioritize my tasks. I use a cheap A4 binder notebook and nice pens, but they're not Montblanc nice. And I'd hate to be stuck using what feels like, to me, a chubby ballpoint. I'm intrigued by digital note taking, and I'm going to preserve, persevere with the augmented paper a while longer. But my first impression is that I'm better off with a paper, a pen, and my messy scribbles. And I think that is a lot of people's end result who tries one of these devices out, don't you think?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I think so.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I mean, and you certainly don't need to spend the Montblanc price to test this out.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You know, you can get it over... 650 euros. Insane.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. 650 euros. It's... They use the Starwalker model pen, which is an okay design.