Save, then Search, Your Scrawl
In the current Biz 2.0 magazine, Chris Taylor, whose day job is ace correspondent for Time magazine in San Francisco, takes a critical look at the forthcoming Tablet PC.
The writer's conclusion about taking notes in your own handwriting and storing them digitally makes me drool and count down the days to November 7th---when Tablet PCs are officially released to us non-glitterazi literazi.
"Sure, you can translate your scrawl into neat rows of text. But why not just leave it as is?
"With [Microsoft's new] Journal [software program] and most other applications on Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, Microsoft's rejiggered operating system, you can do pretty much anything in handwriting. Save as a Journal document and search by keyword, also entered by hand (the system looks for a close match based on your scribbling). Save as an HTML document and throw it onto the Internet within seconds (get ready for a rash of handwritten websites). Reply to e-mail in digital ink. Highlight and red-pencil a presentation without printing it out. And the coolest feature: Erase words by simply crossing them out."
You can join the unofficial Tablet PC Voyeurs Club by taking an occasional peek at TabletPCTalk.
The writer's conclusion about taking notes in your own handwriting and storing them digitally makes me drool and count down the days to November 7th---when Tablet PCs are officially released to us non-glitterazi literazi.
"Sure, you can translate your scrawl into neat rows of text. But why not just leave it as is?
"With [Microsoft's new] Journal [software program] and most other applications on Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, Microsoft's rejiggered operating system, you can do pretty much anything in handwriting. Save as a Journal document and search by keyword, also entered by hand (the system looks for a close match based on your scribbling). Save as an HTML document and throw it onto the Internet within seconds (get ready for a rash of handwritten websites). Reply to e-mail in digital ink. Highlight and red-pencil a presentation without printing it out. And the coolest feature: Erase words by simply crossing them out."
You can join the unofficial Tablet PC Voyeurs Club by taking an occasional peek at TabletPCTalk.
