[tomsem]

Active canvas is pretty neat.

You can enter nearly a whole page of handwritten notes, but can then resize so it takes up minimum space. However if you do that, you need to expand manually to see everything (either in place or in Notes). I was hoping there'd be a Hide/Show feature (hide would reduce it to some icon and tapping on that would restore the canvas), and that Notes would show everything regardless of the current size of the active canvas box.

And Notes does not show any context (such as nearby text). You can sort of add this by making a highlight next to the active canvas.

You can also create underline highlights now. But they do not (at least not yet) appear on non-Scribe Kindles or the Kindle apps.

And whatever you put in active canvas isn't visible either on the other devices/apps, either.

I do not see any changes for print replica documents (e.g. there is no Underline feature apart from what you can draw).

Just starting to look at AI features for Notebooks (Summary or Refine Writing). These take single page or notebook (limited to 16 pages I think?) and generate 'text' (using one of 4 'handwriting fonts') that you can add at start or end of notebook.

Summarize will take more looking at (didn't do so well with a list of stuff), but Refine Writing works really well. The added pages are just regular pages, with regular pen strokes that you can erase or replace, copy move and paste, or add to.

And if it looks good, you can go back and delete the original pages before sharing etc. A lot easier than trying to edit text in the preview of the text conversion.

What we're still missing are ways of copying or moving pages to other or new notebooks and that sort of thing. Or even just a lasso option to capture an entire page to clipboard.

There is a new Shortcut button: Canvas. Not sure why you need it since you can just start writing to create one.

But this is what they promised in the launch event.