I’ll pass on investing in your idea to create a better stylus for the iPad, thanks. Stylus input on iPads will always suck. –me, on twitter

As you can tell from my tweet above, I’ve dismissed the idea of using a stylus on my iPad. Writing notes during meetings was my justification for buying the iPad in the first place. Doesn’t work. Probably never will. I’ve tried every app, stylus, and method I could find and they all suck. Writing with a stylus on the iPad doesn’t feel like writing at all. It’s more like using an awkward crayon without the fun smell. So for meeting notes, it was back to a pen and notebook^notebook.

When everyone started chatting about the Cosmonaut Kickstarter Project from the Glif guys, I grunted my standard dismissive grunt and ignored them.

But I’ve been thinking about it. I think they’re on to something with the whole fidelity mismatch thing. Doodling on the iPad using a finger and something like Draft or Penultimate works pretty well, and the Cosmonaut is designed to make that better rather than trying to improve regular note-taking.

I may have been wrong to dismiss this new stylus so quickly.