I love the BrailleNote's portability; reading books on the train, preparing emails offline or finishing off tasks for work makes my train trips far more interesting. As I can read Braille faster than I can talk, I also find it brilliant for reading out articles etc. to my clients. The extra reading of publications etc. is never a problem; and although I probably have close to eighty books stored at any one time (with my work and my leisure reading), I've never yet had my 48 meg full. Being a lover of cooking and gathering new ideas for this, my most commonly used recipes are also there and more importantly, I can add to them whenever I like.

The planner, I agree is brilliant. Now instead of writing a new task list in my planner each week, I use the block menu on the BrailleNote copy the first item which is not yet accomplished to my clipboard, and then use the append to block command to add other things to the list. I then paste the block into this week's date, and start adding new things. As I finish one project, it gets an asterisk next to the item, and the child that lives in me still, just loves counting those stars for completion. The beauty of doing it this way also lies in the fact that I can look back for weeks and even months, should I need to know when I was working on a particular project.

Now being the person who seldom forgets anything but loves to write records, I have also found setting up database files in my Address list is an excellent way of doing things. I have a book log for each year for example (which keeps details about the books I have read), a movies seen log, a CD catalog (which will one day be written), a database file with my credit card and bank account information in it, a log of my bills (in whose notes' section I can write dates and receipt numbers).

The memory functions on the calculator make devising a budget very simple ... I just seem to have problems keeping to the ones that I draft and I don't think that the BrailleNote can help me with that one.

I discovered another thing just this last weekend. I had received some PDF files of course work for an online class that is beginning this week. I simply sent them to an email address, which translates PDF to text, and received the files back as text, in the body of the email. I cut and pasted this into Microsoft word, got rid of any unwanted symbols like greater than signs, saved them as text files and transferred to the BrailleNote. Bingo! I now have my course work in Braille.