[IxDA Discuss] notepads and creative tools

[Will Parker]

On Jul 3, 2007, at 3:07 PM, Grady Kelly wrote:

> 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

Yes, but I already _have_ a scanner. Not to mention three different  
weights of pen, several more for markers, and about a dozen colors to  
choose from when I'm working on paper. Until somebody builds Corel  
Painter and a Wacom tablet into the note-taking device, I'm not going  
to be happy with the appearance of a straight digital capture. But  
there's to it than that.

What I think both Jeff and I would like to see is something better  
than just capturing one's scribbles as graphic images. If it's going  
to beat the legal pad (again ignoring the really quite huuugge cost  
difference), a output of real digital note-taking device is going to  
have to be fairly well-structured, searchable and modifiable data  
with each chunk of said data properly related to other data chunks on  
the same page of notes. If I draw a diagram of some UI detail with  
captions, labels, and explanatory text, I want the output to capture  
the different relationships between the diagram and each of these  
classes of text.

- Will

Will Parker
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