[NTLK] [OT] HWR App

[Gene Beaird]

We have a 'Pencil' stylus that's paired to the Studio 53 'Paper' app that works pretty well with just about everything. I find using it to type on the keyboard a bit more accurate, for me, than mashing a key with my finger.  The stylus also works well with 'Write Pad Pro', the HWR app for the iPad.  Together they work fairly well, even with my poor handwriting (I don't write much any more by hand, spending about 10-hours a day with my hands on a keyboard).  

Like even the Newton, using a stylus with any HWR, or even semi-HWR, on an iPad takes some learning and practice.  I'd figure that Write Pad Pro with a stylus would work even better on an iPad mini, or something you can easily hold in one hand.  

We have all our iDevices wrapped in Otterboxes, so scratching the screen is not an issue.  

Regards,

Gene Beaird,
Pearland, Texas


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> I have not found a useful HWR app for the iPad, though I?ll admit I quit looking a year ago, so perhaps something useful has been created since.
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> I am a newspaper reporter, and use the iPad mini as my primary note-taking device. I use a note-taking+recording app called Notability. Most of my input is done by typing on the iPad?s screen-based keyboard. But I do occasionally conduct brief post-meeting interviews, standing, using a stylus. Notability has a zoom window, much as Steven Frank described, that allows the inevitably super-sized handwriting to occupy less space.
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> I have not tested the bluetooth enabled styli, but have tested many others, and settled on the Musemee Notier. 
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> http://musemee.com/us/notier.php
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> It has an awkward-looking plastic disk on the business end. Not sure why, but that seems to help it work better than all others I tried.
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> The great advantage of Notability, for a reporter, is that it links the sound recording with the text that you type or write on the screen. In review, this allows you to quickly find a quote that you want to use verbatim in your story.
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> I should add that I do not attempt to do actual story writing on the iPad or in Notability. For that, I use a simple text editing program on my Mac.
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> Cheers!
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> Greg
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>> On Jul 15, 2015, at 8:32 PM, Steven Frank <stevenf at panic.com> wrote:
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>> My experiences with at least a half-dozen iPad styluses has been that they are not great for drawing and terrible for handwriting.  Even the fancy ones that connect via Bluetooth and purport to have palm-rejection technology.  It's not even close to an active digitizer like the Surface or a Wacom tablet, or even a resistive one like the Newton.  There's no accuracy at the size you would normally write, so you're looking at 1-3 words taking up the width of the screen.
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>> There are some handwriting apps where you write at that gigantic size at the bottom of the screen and it re-renders at scaled-down "normal handwriting" size in a box somewhere else on the screen, but it's kludgey at best.  There's not even anything like Ink Text (at least, not that I've ever found).
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>> Steven
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>>> On Jul 15, 2015, at 5:18 PM, Tony Kan <tonykan at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
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>>> My colleague has an iPad and often gets a little envious of us as we scribble down notes in meetings with our Surface and ThinkPad tablets.  
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>>> He says he wants to do the same too and explains that he doesn't want to get a stylus for the iPad because it can't tell the difference between an accidental brush with his hand and an intended contact with the stylus.
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>>> Our Windows tablets use active digitizers that turn off the capacitative touchscreen when the stylus is within a few millimetres of the screen.
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>>> I'd be interested in hearing from other iPad users if they use a stylus regularly and whether my colleague's misgivings are unfounded.  TIA
>>> 
>>> Tony
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