getting text from book into a notetaking app

Posted by Dr Andus
Sep 14, 2013 at 04:54 PM

Gary Carson wrote:
>I’m just wondering because I like the idea of being able to photograph
>research documents, but I’d have to basically get everything except the
>laptop in order to set this up. So far I’ve held the line against
>getting a smartphone, for instance. They seem incredibly expensive,
>especially with all the service charges, and I don’t really need one to
>begin with.

With iOS at least there is the option to get an iPod Touch, which is an iPhone without the phone. No service charges etc.

But I’m personally skeptical about how effective this sort of notetaking would be in the case of extensive research, taking hundreds of notes from each book on an ongoing basis. E.g. One usually just wants a certain passage, not the text of an entire page. For this reason I’m sticking with dictating quotes with Dragon NaturallySpeaking, and pasting them directly into the desired software (Freeplane for me initially), as it seems generally quicker. But I can see that the photographic option could be convenient for occasional notetaking.