Tablet PC & annotation system
14 Jun 2008 - 4:01pm
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Elizabeth Bacon
2003
Hi folks,
I can't for the life of me locate the details about a tablet PC (I
think!) that has an annotation system for taking notes & recording
audio at the same time...does that ring any bells? I searched the
Discuss archives to no avail. I mentioned it to a friend who needs to
find some technology to facilitate her field interviews but now it's
feeling more like a figment of my imagination. ;)
Thanks in advance for any help you might provide!
Cheers,
Liz
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Office 2003 & 2007 both offer a piece of software specifically
designed for tablet called OneNote. It does what you are looking for
in terms of annotation and audio recording.
Nice stuff!
-- dave
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Liz,
I think you're referring to the LiveScribe Pulse pen that records
audio while you write. You can then later access the audio in the
context of your written notes.
http://www.livescribe.com/
Jack
On Jun 14, 2008, at 5:01 PM, Elizabeth Bacon wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I can't for the life of me locate the details about a tablet PC (I
> think!) that has an annotation system for taking notes & recording
> audio at the same time...does that ring any bells? I searched the
> Discuss archives to no avail. I mentioned it to a friend who needs
> to find some technology to facilitate her field interviews but now
> it's feeling more like a figment of my imagination. ;)
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you might provide!
>
> Cheers,
> Liz
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I just purchased a Fujitsu U810 (
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/hands-on-with-the-fujitsu-u810-tablet/)
pre-installed with OneNote, and I am still experimenting with it.
I will probably be writing a blog review shortly, but here's a few thoughts
on the tablet and OneNote:
- This tablet runs a full version of Vista - which makes it slow to boot,
slow to come out of hybernate, and slow to switch screen orientations and
slow to get ready for a fingerprint scan to let you in. Acquisition time for
a paper and pencil is definitely *much* smaller.
- Batter life is reasonable.
- The size is nice. I can't stand larger tablets (this is roughly the
size of a bound A6 journal).
- Fujitsu really doesn't understand aesthetics unfortunately. =( It's
big, black, and looks like military hardware. This thing could be beautiful.
- OneNote is needlessly complex and isn't optimized for primary use
cases. They also drop you into excessive categorization methods instead of
gradually letting you create them as needed.
- One Note doesn't work as well on the small screen of this device.
Clearly it was designed with 8.5x11" "paper" in mind.
- It has a 'convert writing to text' feature, which inexplicably deletes
your previous writing after conversion. (it appears you can't save both, and
I want to be able to switch back and forth as they contain different
semantics).
- There are a lot of different modes, with little toolbar buttons to
switch between them. This is clearly not app designed for use while walking,
or with finger tips - which would seem like obvious things to support.
- It does have the audio and video record feature, but in spending 5 mins
with it I was unable to figure out how to get it to play back.
- OneNote has a lot of functions that seem pretty pointless, without
really getting the primary functions down pat first. It also feels like a
desktop app, not a tablet app, in terms of how you interact with it.
my 2 cents,
Jeff
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 2:24 PM, dave malouf <dave at ixda.org> wrote:
> Office 2003 & 2007 both offer a piece of software specifically
> designed for tablet called OneNote. It does what you are looking for
> in terms of annotation and audio recording.
>
> Nice stuff!
>
> -- dave
>
>
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> Posted from the new ixda.org
> http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=30252
>
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Thanks,
Jeff
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