"For intensive word-only writing, most of us can type on a keyboard far faster than we can scrawl with a pen, but the speed advantage is reversed for anything that requires diagramming or mathematical formulas. The open source application Xournal, which is designed to provide keyboard-less text entry and drawing features, is one solution. Taking freehand notes without that clunky, old-fashioned keyboard has never been easier.
"Download Xournal from the project's SourceForge.net site. Source code tarballs are available; the only external dependencies are GTK, libgnomecanvas, and libgnomeprint..."
