Intern Saumya Vaishampayan came along to take notes, and judging by her jottings, I put in a disappointing performance.

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But these jottings have a second purpose: They're diary entries of sorts, bringing into sharp focus travel memories that might otherwise fade under the weight of years.

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It wouldn't be fair to call this the blind leading the blind, but as the Morgan Stanley man admits in some of his humbler jottings, his act "is as much art as science" and subject to errant inputs.

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Thankfully, there's a helpful option to disable the background and replace it with a yellow sticky-note backdrop. (You can also save and share these jottings, of course.) Basically, the company's crafted this as a shortcut, albeit a convoluted one, that's meant to bypass the lack of any function keys on the actual stylus.

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