I once worked for a Quality manger who insisted that everyone wrote using a black ball point pen.
He was the exception (using pencil) When I challenged him we replied "So I can rub out my mistakes." God please him... The main advantage of the note book over PDA and laptops are: They show who wrote the entries (handwriting) They do not break when you drop them G Keeping a lab notebook was one of the first ideas that they taught us in college laboratory courses; I thought it was a pain in the $%#@** back then. But, whenever anyone asks me how long it took us to test a product, how much time we spend troubleshooting (which is always followed by the question of how long it will take for the next one); I find these notebooks to be worth their weight in Gold. Of course, for you electronics lovers out there, a laptop, palm pilot... would possibly work. I don't use them because I find them restrictive. When I'm in the lab, I need to draw block diagrams, to make sketches, to take notes. I really haven't found a hardware/software combination in a laptop or palmtop that works as quickly or as well as good old "pencil CAD".
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