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Taking reading notes on Samsung Chromebook Plus or Pro with Google Keep
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Posted by Dr Andus
Feb 10, 2017 at 08:58 PM
This could be a new moment in the history of taking reading notes electronically: using the Samsung pen to take a screenshot of a piece of text and save it to Google Keep, where it’s OCR-ed and becomes searcheable (even if the review is not entirely favourable about other aspects of the device).
http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/10/14570480/samsung-chromebook-plus-laptop-review
“I know the exact moment I fell in love with the Chromebook Plus.
I was reading a Kindle book and found a passage I wanted to save. I pulled out the stylus and tapped the “Capture Screen” button on the menu that automatically popped up. Then I tapped “Annotate in Google Keep” and jotted a few notes right on the page, just like I used to do with real books. Then I went back to reading.
Later, I wanted to cite that quote but couldn’t remember it exactly. So I opened up Google Keep and did a simple search, which brought up my note (Google had read and indexed it in the cloud). I saw my note and saw the passage circled right there. I just had to tap “Grab Image Text” in Keep and the quote I wanted was immediately right there in the note, ready for me to copy and paste into my Google document.”