[IxDA Discuss] notepads and creative tools

[Grady Kelly]

This seems to have the best of both worlds.  If you are in to that sorta
thing ... :o)

     http://www.compamerica.com/digimemo/dm692.html

          or


http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2659034&CatId=140

Grady

On 7/3/07, Will Parker <wparker at channelingdesign.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Jul 2, 2007, at 9:28 PM, Jeff Axup wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've done a bit of brainstorming around a notepad information
> > appliance.
> > Wondering if anyone has any thoughts on requirements, design,
> > feasibility or
> > other concerns?
> >
> > Re-thinking the Notepad
> > http://mobilecommunitydesign.com/2007/07/re-thinking-notepad.html
>
> As I see it, the primary advantage an electronic notepad has over
> traditional paper (ignoring the _huge_ price differential) is the
> _promise_ of avoiding transcribing your notes directly into digital
> format. My first question in that regard is whether that direct-to-
> digital entry is a worthwhile goal in ad-hoc note-taking. Is it
> really better to take your initial ideas straight into the digital
> workflow, or does the transcription process  itself offer time for
> reflection and improvement? I personally think it does.
>
> My first choice for portable note-taking and brainstorming these days
> is paper notebooks, largely due to cost and portability concerns. I
> mostly use these for initial impressions, off-the-cuff 'visual
> thinking', and must-capture-NOW details. I rarely use them for
> content that's actually ready to be worked on extensively.
>
> My second choice is Apple Keynote running on a laptop. It offers some
> of the same advantages reported for Fireworks CS3 (pages plus
> layers), easy text entry and placement (along with methods of
> associating text directly with graphical content), and a sufficiently
> large suite of graphical tools for visual thinking. Here, I'm moving
> to digital, but I'm usually focused on communication (and persuasion)
> regarding implementation details --- I'm still not in my primary
> workflow, and I rarely attempt to reuse content from this stage in my
> primary deliverables.
>
> I will have to examine exactly why that is at some later time, but I
> suspect that the primary factors keeping me from reusing note content
> in my general workflow are 1) radically different levels of detail
> (and the tools to manage same) between the note stage and the final
> production stage and 2) no immediately obvious method of readily
> moving between note / communication / production modes in the same
> document.
>
> - Will
>
> Will Parker
> wparker at ChannelingDesign.com
>
> "I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If
> that were the case, then Microsoft would have great products." -
> Steve Jobs
>
>
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Grady Kelly
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