I have written in the past that my favorite handwriting app for the iPad is uPad. It remains my favorite, and my use of it has skyrocketed since I bought the Cosmonaut Stylus.
Every other stylus I have used has (a) tried to emulate a pen and (b) has a rubber tip that sticks and skips around if you try to handwrite with it. I tried the trick of coating the tip in superglue, and that helped a lot but the superglue always flaked off. It was just unsatisfying.
Not the Cosmonaut. First, it is roughly the size and shape of a whiteboard marker. It has a wonderful feel - perfectly weighted and with a comfortable black, rubbery grip. It is extremely well designed, and like such things, it is a joy to hold.
But the secret sauce here is it is friction free. Writing with it is fast, simple, easy and even pleasurable. I now use my iPad and uPad and Cosmonaut combo exclusively for taking notes in meetings. And a feature that still blows my mind - for important pages, I send them to my Evernote account. And since I have printed neatly, Evernote goes ahead and OCR's the pages for me!
When I moved houses, I took measurements of my furniture, trying to figure out in advance where everything would go in the new place. I hand wrote that on a piece of paper, and then decided since I was moving and packing everything, I had better take a picture of the page. I sent it to Evernote not thinking much about it. But then when I searched Evernote for "Desk", up popped the picture of my handwitten notes with the word "desk" highlighted.
Like I said, that's mind-blowing. And now I save the whole taking a picture part by simply writing the notes directly into uPad. Once they're in Evernote, they are searchable.
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