I think the best way to take notes at meetings is with pen and paper - incredibly fast! If you have to use an electronic device then a separate keyboard is a must in my opinion. I have tried taking notes at meetings using the handwriting recognition on a Palm and while it works, it's a bit of an effort and you end up concentrating throughout the meeting on correcting errors and catching up with proceedings - it spoils all the fun.

For writing up my notes on the train back from meetings away I have really enjoyed using my Palm E2 with a full sized IR keyboard. I have now bought a Frogpad for my 770 and was keen to learn one handed typing but since I've moved to OS 2006 I have, no doubt temporarily, lost the ability to connect via Bluetooth to the keyboard. I have used it enough though to know that there is a learning curve and, if you want to hit the ground running, I'd recommend a qwerty keyboard.

So while I don't recommend the 770 or anything but pen and paper for meetings, if it serves you as an excuse to get a 770 it's a good thing as the 770 is an unbelievably great little device. I'm currently using it with FBReader to read the entire The Art of Unix Programming which I got for free on the net. I used Plucker to get the hundreds of separate HTML files into one singe pdb file. The whole process took about two minutes and it is so convenient to read on the 770, I definitely won't order a paper copy of the book despite it being an insanely great read and I am now seriously questioning getting an eInk device such as the iRex iLiad ever since I've seen how very slowly they render pages.

Also, while kimmoj is right to say you don't get true whites and other bright strongly contrasted colours on the 770 like you get on devices with a lesser resolution I disagree that the screen is inferior in general. It has the resolution of a laser printed page only a few years ago! You can comfortably read even tiny text on it! Go get yourself one and then get a nice Moleskine for your meetings...