Paper: Not fancy: most often one-size used letter sheets left too long at the printer, cut down to 5.5" x 8.5" or even 5.5" by 4.25", held together in pads using those big black fold-back clips. As an added advantage, the partial remains of what was printed on the back side can sometimes serve as Oblique Strategies, though one has to be careful not to leave scraps of "sensitive business information" lying around. I also keep a stock of blank standard newsprint sheets, and drafting vellum, both handy for drawing large schematics like database designs (the vellum being for overlays). In a pinch I'll use 8.5" x 11" metric grid paper (;-) but I simply loath horizontally lined sheets - can't quite say why.

Implements: I do the bulk of my writing/designing/planning/calculating with 0.5mm mechanical pencils, of which I have a wide variety, as I alternately prefer very thin or very fat versions, and I like to have both 2H and HB leads. To go with these, a large white plastic drafting eraser, and a small set-square. While lately I've been trying out coloured 0.5mm leads, I always have on hand some PILOT Hi-Tecpoint V5 Extra Fine pens in blue, black and red, sometimes green. I obtained a large stock of these some years back and still find them the best for my writing style (i.e. very tiny). I'm running low now and need to find a new supply, but have not seen them around lately.

Lately I've been taking meeting notes on my Handspring Visor in order to make distribution easier, using a Targus folding keyboard (a master of engineering that is!). Unfortunately it is still way too restrictive for the little-scribbles-in-the-margins style I need, so I still have my paper/pencil/eraser at hand. What I really want is some way to scan my scribbles from paper, getting good OCR and vectors from the sketches at the same time.

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I'd like to be able to assign to an luser