Taking handwritten notes on digital devices

Posted by Franz Grieser
Apr 5, 2018 at 12:08 PM

Hugh wrote:
>But the real challenge, it appears to me, is to create software that
>will reliably and accurately convert that handwriting to text. That
>still seems more difficult to accomplish than to convert voice to text.
>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.

I found Graffiti easy to learn. And writing on the Palm worked better for me than typing on my Psion 3 and 5, which I had used the years before.
For me, the idea behind Graffiti was great: Let the user do the learning because he is better at it than a machine with limited computing power.
Today, with way more powerful CPUs and machine-learning, things ought to be different - but obviously aren’t.