I used to use a more bulky dictaphone with a tape. I was using it quite a lot for meetings and interviews and decided to purchase the Olympus VN-120.The VN-120 is excellent for those that do a lot of travelling as it's really compact and light plus it has no tapes or moving parts. It only weighs 65g and is small enough to carry with you wherever you go ensuring that it's available whenever you need it.
It has three folders available so you are able to organise your notes accordingly but most of all, there's no tape! It has a handy alarm function, which you can set to remind yourself of any appointments or meetings.
It's small in size as well so can sit discretely in meetings (without making a whirring noise unlike more-cumbersome tape recorders). It's navigation features are really intuitive so you can have it up and running within no time at all.
You can use it to record up to four hours depending on which of the three settings you use. The sound quality on playback is excellent - there's no way I'm going back to tapes!
Oh - and it looks great!
