[NTLK] Using Newton - Simple Pleasures

[L.W. Brown]

Also Penultimate (large notebooks & quite pretty to look at) & SpeedText (quick notes) - tho both just record as pictures.

Would be nice to have some of the best features from all 5 of these in one app...

L.W. Brown via ¡Pad

On Oct 29, 2010, at 20:18, "J.M. Heinrichs" <minicapt1 at mac.com> wrote:

> Check the following:
> 1.  http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/writepad-for-ipad/id363618389?mt=8
> 2.  http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/noteshelf/id392188745?mt=8
> 3.  http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/note-taker-hd/id366572045?mt=8
> 
> Cheers
> J.M. Heinrichs
>  minicapt1 at mac.com
> 
> On 29 Oct 10, at 17:09, James Steven Salibo wrote:
> 
>> I have several Newton Models (MP, 130, Marco, eMate) that I have used
>> through the years.  While I am still using most of them to some degree, I
>> would like to get an iPad to carry into client's offices to take notes on.
>> Can anyone recommend a good stylus input note taking app for the iPad.  I do
>> not need a Graffiti like application; I would be satisfied with just being
>> able to take notes in "electronic ink" and then transfer to my Windows
>> Laptop.  If it converted to text, then all the better. 
>> 
>> J. Steven Salibo
>> 281-220-1061
>> jsalibo at comcast.net
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: newtontalk-bounces at newtontalk.net
>> [mailto:newtontalk-bounces at newtontalk.net] On Behalf Of Forrest Buffenmyer
>> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 6:38 PM
>> To: NewtonTalk
>> Subject: Re: [NTLK] Using Newton - Simple Pleasures
>> 
>>> 
>> <snip>
>> 
>>>> While I agree that Graffiti was not the answer, the much larger and even
>>>> primal handwriting issue that Newton EXCELS at, is.  I could care less
>> that
>>>> the first version did not work well.  Ever try the first version of DOS?
>> Or
>>>> drive a model T?  Didn't seem to stop your further exploration.  From the
>> time
>>>> we first pick up a crayon and see the empty canvas of the wall, writing
>> is
>>>> ingrained.  The most revered writing is your signature.  We place
>> ultimate
>>>> conviction in handwriting.  I am at a loss to understand the lack of
>> interest
>>>> if fostering this form of user input.  Sorry, just my personal vent at
>> the
>>>> windmill.  Frustrating when you know it can be done right, because it
>> has, by
>>>> our green friend.
>>>> 
>> <snip>
>> 
>> After trying to learn Graffiti (I like to know what I'm criticising), hell,
>> I'd rather type on a virtual keyboard like the iPad's (or even the
>> iPhone's!) any time! :)
>>> 
>> <snip>
>> 
>> The basic Graffiti was very easy to learn; Graffiti 2 (a.k.a. Jot) was much
>> harder.
>> --
>> 
>> I had a HandSpring Visor about10 years ago...I soon learned that Graffiti
>> wasn't actually writing, it was more the process of making calculated
>> strokes in a little square pad area that (hopefully) translated into letters
>> and words on the screen. While some could argue that the foregoing is a
>> rough definition of the act of writing, in reality the two are very very
>> different. From a writer's perspective, there's great pleasure in
>> writing--actually, on the screen--with electronic ink.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> --Forrest
>> -- 
>> "Newton, come here...I need you." --Alexander MessagePad Bell
>> (Sent wirelessly from my NT MP2100 using Mail V)
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