The Zpen by Dane-Elec is a revolutionary new input device that captures your handwriting, your drawings, etc… and lets you transfer these into your computer. In fact, Zpen is a two-pieces device: a pen and a receiver with OCR capability. It has 1 gb memory to store your pen strokes.

As we mentioned before in our ‘Use An Idea Journal – Protect Your Creative Ideas Forever‘ post; an idea journal is a must not to forget your randomly generated creative ideas. If you use an idea journal in a handwritten format and have a very good habbit to transfer them into your computer; the Zpen can help you in this process. With its OCR capability, the Zpen receiver transforms your handwriting to your word processor’s format and your drawings are included into this action, too. After your handwritten notes transferred to your computer, you’ll have the ability to organize and search your ideas in a digital form and protect them more easily. It’s small enough to carry in your pocket, so you can use the Zpen as an Effective Idea Journaling Tool, because of these keys:
1- It’s available when you need it to use,
2- It’s easy to use and protect,
3- It lets you organize your ideas easily.

We recommend you to use Zpen as an effective idea journaling tool.

Your creative ideas are your resources for your creative projects. Without any ideas you can’t create any thing new; you can only copy. So you must protect your creative and innovative ideas from yourself to stop forgetting.When an interesting idea come to you when you’re busy and you’ve thought “Interesting idea, I must remember and work on it, later”, later you have no clue what it was. You totally lose it.

An Idea Journal is a type of media which lets you record your idea instantly, not to forget. Its simplest form is a simple notebook small enough to carry with you , which you can take notes. Other forms are  pocket voice recorders, cell phones (both for writing and voice recording), ipod – mp3 player with recording ability, laptops, PDAs, colorful post-its or web services like Zoho Planner …

In fact, the form isn’t so important; what really important about an idea journal is to reach randomly produced creative ideas back, later. For me, when i drive my car on motorway; my head starts to produce creative ideas. Sometimes i record my voice into my cell phone. When i go back home, i write my creative ideas in a file on my computer. Most of them give me inspiration about my future projects. Briefly, an idea journal helps us to remember a random creative idea at later time.

Sometimes, countless ideas come and some of them seem infeasible and unrealistic to you at that time. People used to evaluate anything in the daily conditions. Those infeasible ideas may seem feasible and realistic to you in the future. A simple idea journal can help you keep valuable ideas to the future when the suitable conditions will mature. Especially, business ideas need time to turn into profitable businesses. Keep them carefully to gain your future.

The secret to having an efficient idea journal is adding new ideas whenever possible without any judgement and using something you can keep with you to quickly write down or record thoughts whenever they come to mind. You should use the best method for you. If you don’t have, get an idea journal immediately and don’t waste your valuable ideas.