At Real Estate Connect in July, I came away with more than 50 pages of handwritten notes. When I go home, I have to manually enter my notes into my computer. Consequently, I was intrigued as I watched VREO Software's Marc Davison take notes during the sessions. Instead of taking notes by hand, Marc was writing on a tablet PC. Since I'm in the market for a new computer, I asked Marc to demonstrate how his system works.
Marc explained he had a tablet computer programmed with R.E.D. software. (R.E.D. stands for "Real Estate Dashboard.") A Tablet PC is a powerful notebook computer that also doubles as a PDA. Since I'm constantly in meetings, I love the idea of taking handwritten notes on a Tablet PC and having the computer automatically convert those notes into a text document. The new "tablets" have "handwriting" recognition features. For people who are slow typists, you can do all tablet functions without using a keyboard.