Taking handwritten notes on digital devices

Posted by Hugh
Apr 5, 2018 at 01:23 PM

Franz Grieser wrote:
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.

I should have written “...learning Graffiti was a potential barrier for some users.”!