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You could try putting it on a tablet PC (one with a stylus).

I do most of my software design stuff (UML etc.) on paper first before transfering into a software tool. I find it much easier to do that way.

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I would love this if there were a really competent stylus based tablet for this kind of thing. I prefer to write down creative and technical thoughts... and I almost always require a white board in order to share thoughts with someone else. A 'Notebook Paper' sized tablet with a stylus ( or 2 for collaboration?) would be really nice I think. Any suggestions for something like this? Most of the stylus based tablets I've tried have been entirely unimpressive.

Perhaps you could try using a collaborative whiteboard (either web-based or app) on a iPad?

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=886713

You can get styluses that work on the capacitive screen, if desired.

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-10443415-233.html

I use Xournal on a Lenovo ThinkPad X-60 tablet as a white board. It works well (almost as well as a $10 white board).

Lenovo's Thinkpad X tablets are generally thought to be pretty kickass. It maxes out at 12" though, so it's a bit smaller than notebook paper sized. But it's using an active digitizer, so it gives results every bit as good as using a Wacom tablet. And having used a Wacom tablet, its almost every bit as good as using paper, except plastic on plastic will always feel different than metal on paper.

Any device using an active digitizer should be great. And in fact, if you had a ridiculous amount of money to blow, you could get a Wacom Cintiq, which is basically a 20 something inch LCD monitor which has an active digitizer built into the entire thing.

Unfortunately, as far as I know, each of these solutions can only handle one stylus at a time.

And in fact, if you had a ridiculous amount of money to blow, you could get a Wacom Cintiq, which is basically a 20 something inch LCD monitor which has an active digitizer built into the entire thing.

I only had four bucks, so I got five hundred sheets of paper.

FWIW, earlier models of Wacom tablets supported two styluses at once, but they dropped the feature because no one was using it.

http://forum.wacom.eu/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3552

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