Taking handwritten notes on digital devices

Posted by Dr Andus
Apr 5, 2018 at 11:26 AM

Hugh wrote:
I suspect that there are a number of pieces of hardware and quite a few
>pieces of software that will support the use of handwriting.

Yeah, but it’s one thing to “support handwriting” and another for it to **actually** work on a daily basis for real-life use in a satisfactory way, so one would prefer it over other input methods.

Even the very first iPad supported handwriting, but the latency and the size of the resulting writing made it unusable for taking notes at a meeting for instance.

>Actually, Palm used to achieve both speed and accuracy with its own
>special form of shorthand (which I think was called Graffiti). But
>learning Graffiti was a potential barrier for users.

Graffiti did actually work for me. It was let down by the hardware in the end.