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Posted by Paul J. Miller
May 7, 2018 at 09:59 PM
Listerene wrote:
OR you could just give up on crippled technology and go with Windows 10
>on an ink-suitable PC.
>
>Sometimes, there’s a reason that a product has an 85% market share. One
>Note will easily do what you want.
The reMarkable tablet isn’t crippled just overpriced. I have written on a surface it has a slick glossy frictionless screen which is not good for handwriting. The reMarkable doesn’t have all the distractions of the surface, it doesn’t do e-mail or web browsing it doesn’t pop up reminders it just does one thing quite well. There are one or two things they could have done to make it better but they are working on it.
One Note is a mess, a flashy GUI with lots of features added just to tick boxes in the advertising feature list with no thought as to how they were going to work together, the tagging is a joke and with the free version you have to keep all your data on Microsofts server, no local saves. The non free version comes as part of Microsofts new rental office suite Office 365. Software as a Sentence.
Posted by Jeffery Smith
May 7, 2018 at 10:40 PM
I decided to give the iPad Pro and Apple pencil a try, and have had problems deciding on which app to use. One guy on Youtube seems to endorse every one of them as “best”. Notability seems to be popular for handwritten notes, while GoodNotes, Nebo, and Notes Plus can convert to typewritten text. My handwriting sucks (is a combination of printing and longhand). Right now, I’m leaning toward finding the one with least lag time.
Posted by Hugh
May 8, 2018 at 10:07 AM
Jeffery Smith wrote:
I decided to give the iPad Pro and Apple pencil a try, and have had
>problems deciding on which app to use. One guy on Youtube seems to
>endorse every one of them as “best”. Notability seems to be popular for
>handwritten notes, while GoodNotes, Nebo, and Notes Plus can convert to
>typewritten text. My handwriting sucks (is a combination of printing and
>longhand). Right now, I’m leaning toward finding the one with least lag
>time.
Jeffery, I would be surprised if there was much if any lag time on the iPad Pro. It contains a relatively powerful processor, and Apple says that it has designed the entire iPad Pro plus Apple Pencil system to avoid the sorts of problems, including lag, that were inherent in earlier iPads.
That said, I expect that any of Notability, Notes Plus, GoodNotes or Nebo would be good for handwriting recognition, with, as I’ve written elsewhere in these forums, Nebo the best - although not necessarily the best in terms of the other “bells and whistles” that you might need in a full-featured note-taking application. I recall that one or two of the applications have slightly different methods within the user-interface for converting handwriting to text, so if you can it would be worth investigating them all fully before you make a decision.
One caveat, however: again as I’ve written elsewhere, handwriting recognition is as yet an imperfect technology. So when I’ve written above “good for handwriting recognition” that is relative to how things were. I recommend not raising your expectations too high. (My own handwriting, is to say the least quirky: even Nebo can’t always figure out my “y”, “g”, “q”, “f” and “p” - I have to write quite carefully and modify my style to get handwriting recognition to work sufficiently to make it an efficient process. Nonetheless, I persist. And I do believe that using the iPad as a store for all my handwritten notes, even if not converted to text, is worth the effort - no more Post-Its floating around my desk!)
Posted by satis
May 8, 2018 at 02:32 PM
Latency is normally negligible in real-world use, but it can be slightly noticeable with some more fully-featured (and/or more poorly-coded) drawing apps.
https://www.imore.com/105-inch-ipad-pro-first-impressions-my-favorite-ipad-just-got-even-better
https://www.macworld.com/article/3267724/iphone-ipad/apple-pencil-lag-test-new-ipad-vs-ipad-pro.html
https://www.imore.com/my-97-ipad-2018-review-drawn-written-edited-and-produced-ipad
If that’s something you’re really worried about just wait (a month?) to see what arrives with the new iPad Pros….
Posted by Dr Andus
May 27, 2018 at 02:30 PM
I have taken the plunge and imported a Samsung Chromebook Pro from the US, with the hope that I could use it for taking handwritten notes.
It’s still early days, but if anyone is interested, here’s my mini-review about my experience of testing Kami vs. Squid for annotating PDFs with a stylus on it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/chromeos/comments/8mdkll/kami_or_squid_for_annotating_pdfs_with_stylus_on/
For this the CBP worked fairly well (in tablet mode), and it made reading and annotating more enjoyable and faster than using the keyboard, though the downside is that the comments and highlights are no longer exportable in a ‘machine’ readable form (e.g. pasting them into ConnectedText, as I used to).
But this has its benefits as well, as it forces me to summarise my handwritten comments as an additional reflective step, and be more selective about which quotes l choose to import into CT.
And of course I can still link to the marked-up PDF from within the CT page, to call it up, when necessary.