Johnkzin: what, is there a strike against trying out free programs? If your time is that valuable, I recommend that you hire a scribe to take notes for you.

Otherwise, I recommend that you TRY xournal and maemopad+ and THEN complain about their lacks, rather than writing about what it 'looks like' their faults are.

They BOTH allow you to type text AS TEXT if you want to. It's just faster to sketch notes, in my experience.