[fnord77]

I've spent years trying different things. From those e-pens with little scanners in the head that scan what you write on the special grid paper (what the were those called?), to tablets, to scanning paper notes, to txt files. Any half-baked idea that came out, I tried it.

I've settled in microsoft onenote. You can organize things nicely. You can take pics of paper docs with phone scanner software and import them as PDFs and onenote will OCR them. I sync between all my devices, but I believe you don't have to do that. And it's free and works nicely on the mac. (also tried evernote - hated it)

If I'm running a meeting, I leave the voice dictation thing open and let it try to transcribe what I say. it's crude, but it captures things that I would forget. (fn key twice on the mac, dunno on other os'es)

[interatx]

I think voice dictation talks to the microsoft home (and has been disabled for my company's one note). At this point my salary is just enough to compensate for a surface pro or surface book to take notes. I think one note + surface pro + surface pen might not be a bad option.