Taking handwritten notes on digital devices

Posted by Hugh
Apr 5, 2018 at 01:39 PM

Dr Andus wrote:
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.

Agreed that latency and imprecision make use of a digital device for handwritten note-taking pretty much impossible. On the iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil, there is little or no latency and much-improved precision (for a price, of course).

It will be interesting to see whether that is true of the just-announced, less expensive iPad too. The specifications of the chip that it uses suggest that it may be.