Since I received my X41T I have been demo'ing software. Two packages I've been playing with are
ritePen and
PenOffice. I started with PenOffice and thought I had found a winner; however, while doing my research I read a lot of good comments about ritePen, so I decided to give it a try. The handwriting recognition was so much better that I decided to go with it over PenOffice.
What these packages do - they both allow you to write anywhere on the screen without bringing up the Input Panel. Coming from the PocketPC world the input panel never "felt" right. Moreover, having to bring up the Input Panel to do gestures just seemed stupid. The recognition in ritePen is dramatically better than PenOffice. In general, correcting mistakes is easier and quicker using ritePen. The one exception I found to this was when I needed to change the recognized text because a correct suggested alterative was not displayed. In this case, it was very difficult to make the correction. The good news is that ritePen almost always displays a correct alternative to a mis-recognition
Pen Office is a much more feature rich package. It also includes the ability to execute commands/macros by writing a word aid then circling it. It's very useful and very powerful. ritePen does not have this feature. I missed this feature so much that I downloaded
PenCommander (a product by the same company that contains the macro functionality without the other PenOffice functionality). Sadly, ritePen and PenComnander did not play well with each other.
For me, ritePen's recognition was so much better that I have decided to give up the gesture/macro functionality for now.
For a good review of ritePen, check out: