Re: Using Zoomer as Note-taker
Ken Wallich <starnet!apple!ncd.com!wallich>
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Subject: Re: Using Zoomer as Note-taker
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 17 Nov 1993 06:27:00 PST."
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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1993 09:53:03 PST
From: Ken Wallich <starnet!apple!ncd.com!wallich>
Status: OR
>> As others have pointed out, the lack of defered HWR on NoteBook pages
>> is the single biggest limiting factor on the Zoomer. I think Palm's
>> promoting of defered HWR is misleading.
Well, it's certainly the biggest limiting factor in the notebook.
There are plenty of other limitation competing for 'biggest' :-).
My experience with note taking is in corporate meetings. The good
news is that in general, it works great for that. For those that
don't have scads of meetings, what generally happens is you have one
or more 'topics', and each topic gets beaten to death over several
minutes. Sometimes 30-60 minutes each. During that time, very little
information worth keeping or remembering is spewed. All you really
need keep track of is the topic, and the resolution.
In 'informational' meetings, you usually get a series of bullets, each
of which is generally discussed to death as well. The discussion
periods give you plenty of time to correct the HWR mistakes. I'm up
to about 90% recognition, so most of my corrections are changing a '4'
into the proper letters, or selecting sections of correctly recognized
letters and re-typing them in lower case. So, for low signal/noise
ratio meetings, it works great. Also lets you plug in appointments
when they schedule the next meeting, and play solitare when things get
*really* boring.