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Originally Posted by sarah11918
*Anyone* else could press the magic button. :P  |
And it seems a couple of you did! Thanks, guys!
Played around with pdf last night, and I'll post something more coherent later this morning.
Bottom line, if you're looking to replace a paper notebook (which of course itself doesn't have OCR, doesn't easily leave the physical page, doesn't allow you to "import" anything to draw on), I believe the device is excellent.
I'll get into my efforts to get data "in and out" of the device later, but if you were looking for
a single dedicated place to store handwritten notes, sketches, a very basic camera capture (that you can then mark up), document (pdf) storage for reference or basic annotation (that doesn't have to leave the machine; that you intended to keep in this little package), a couple of basic timewasting games, a basic browser (I was on MR forums on the Eee Note last night, logged in and everything), a basic voice recorder, and a way to check email when in wifi range, with enough battery that you wouldn't have to worry about charging it until you go to bed at night, I think this is excellent.
Right now where it's falling short for me is integration with the outside world, and a lot of that has to do with me not having access to Windows on the road and wanting to get data on to the machine without a computer at all, ideally. (i.e. emailing myself a pdf, downloading a pdf I have uploaded somewhere). (Note: I have found I can get pdfs ON to the device, but due to the way the system detects files for the reader and organizes its info in databases, simply adding the pdf to the device's file system doesn't also update the database info so that the reader can tell it's there.)
But if you wanted this as a dedicated device where you mostly create and keep your data, right now I see it as quite a good solution.