Wine Writers – Write on!
By Marisa D'Vari | December 10th, 2009 | Category: Wine Education | 1 Comment »Ok, so if you review wine at the larger tasting events in Manhattan, San Francisco, London, Hong Kong, you know the gut-wrenching, high-pressured feeling of knowing to take accurate (read time consuming) tasting notes when the world's treasures are before you. You might have already realized that napkins, leaflets, scraps of paper are not the solution. They may remain intact for a while, on your desk near your computer, then they are swept away.
In Burgundy I once saw a journalist with a computer -- on a tray -- supported by a cord around his neck.
At a Champagne event in New York, I saw a man with a miniature Sony computer typing away.
And of course, Blackberry and Apple are adding Tasting Note Applications as I write.
You will never be lost with the new Smart Pen, which is a "pen" like object that is able to write on a special pad, and then you hook it up to your computer.
I am very excited because I like to save notes, and this saves the steps of retyping into a computer or scanning it to a .pdf file.
Even better, the pen records audio! Now some of you Mac users might be thinking, I can type and record and even video with my Mac.
And that's true -- yet sometimes I really really do not want to carry around my Mac.
If you click the Amazon link you can get a more technical sense of how it works.
Let me know your thoughts! Mac or the Smart Pen!
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I like the idea of the pen that records audio. I like my trusty “notebook” though. It’s one of those black note books with the red edges. The kind that angst ridden teenage notebook scribblers use. This pen is interesting though, you could be writing your notes and recording your thoughts at the same time!