Tablet tools
I don’t always have access to my WordPress dashboard whenever I have an idea for a blog post, so I tend to rely on my tablet (which is always two feet away from me) and Microsoft’s awesome OneNote 2007 application to tag any cool thoughts or ideas that come into my head. As far as digital notebook applications go, OneNote is hard to beat. It support various levels of navigation; you can have any number of notebooks, each with its own set of folders/tabs; each of those can have any number of pages and subpages. It handles just about every content type under the sun, as you can embed audio recordings and files into your notes, and most documents support being inserted as a ‘printout’ so you can write directly on your PowerPoint slides or what have you. You can also use the built-in clipping tool to grab screencaptures of specific applications or parts of a web site, something I do often.
You might have also noticed that I occasionally post entries in ink. While my setup using Windows Live Writer and the ink plug-in isn’t quite as robust as Sumocat’s build 51 implementation (which supports making inked words into links),I think it makes for a nice change of pace from the massive amounts of text (and the occasional image). I think ink adds a more personal touch to posts, even if my handwriting is terrible!
Some other cool tools I’ve found include InkSeine, a Microsoft Research prototype geared towards searching(and organizing the results) with ink alone, the Physics Simulator (included in the Microsoft Tablet PC Experience Pack), and Crayon Physics, a puzzle/physics game that’s more-or-less perfectly suited to the input methods on a tablet.