He advises jotting down three things you are grateful for each day or daily journaling about a positive experience.

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In addition, the Note Anytime application available for download on VAIO Duo 11 is for digitally jotting down handwritten notes on the touchscreen.

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The first might be simultaneously instant-messaging, listening to music and e-mailing, the other puffing a Gitane and jotting down notes about being and nothingness.

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In spare moments he indulged his fascination with physics by hurling boomerangs around campus, all the while jotting down formulas to describe their motion.

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At tastings, I often find myself jotting down descriptors such as pale in color with floral aromatics of violet and rose, and a fresh acidity.

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The DuoSense pen offers the comfort of jotting down an idea as soon as it occurs, requires no use of paper, and results in a more efficient, productive and mobile computing environment.

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Those who prefer jotting down notes as opposed to typing them, however, will greatly prefer S Note over S Memo, as the more powerful app brings the ability to convert handwritten words to text on-the-fly.

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