Recommendation for tablet

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Dec 27, 2007 at 06:58 PM

Tony,

Seems like no one can answer your request—probably because you’re asking too much. I don’t know any program that does all this. I’ve added a few suggestions among your questions below:

TonyJ wrote:
>My tablet came with OneNote, so far it looks like a good piece of software. Do I need a
>combination of programs to do it all, or is OneNote sufficient? Here’s what I’d like to
>be able to do:
> >1 - Annotate ebooks, preferably in ink. Mostly .pdf or .djvu. Perhaps
>other formats in the future. Link from a given paragraph of one document to a selected
>paragraph of another. I think OneNote can handle this.

I’d say ON is the best bet.

>
>2 - Store all my email. My
>email is on an IMAP server. An offline backup where I can link emails to a list of
>contacts and tasks (and link them back to the emails) is ideal. ON - not as far as I can
>tell.
> >3 - As implied in 2, keep a master list of contacts, and manage my projects and
>to-do lists with a calendar. A good fit with GTD would be ideal but it isn’t necessary.
>ON - ?

Take a look at Debrief Notes. (http://www.debriefnotes.com) It tooks a little bit of work to figure out the GUI but once you do it makes sense and is pretty powerful.

>
>4 - Accurately save web pages. Saving the entire site isn’t necessary but Web
>Research’s feature of allowing the user to save some of the pages linked to is very
>nice. An editor where I can cut chunks out of the webpage and eliminate animations,
>banners and ads would be a strong feature. Ability to export as an html or mht file is a
>plus. ON can import them as a screen capture but my preference is for the links to work.
>Linking to a specific section in the web page from an external document is another
>plus. ON - ?

Many people like Surfulater for this task. (http://www.surfulater.com)

>
>5 - General note taking. ON does this very well.
> >6 - The more easily I can
>use ink, the better.

Debrief does ink, but I haven’t tried it.

>
>Linking documents and annotating in ink are the two big wants,
>but none of this is written in stone. All the linking between different types of
>documents (email, .pdf, .doc, .jpg, etc.) suggests one database to hold the whole
>thing. UltraRecall and InfoSelect are getting my attention. Web Research also has
>some strong features but I don’t know if it can handle a big database and I expect some of
>these OneNote files holding printed text books, will be rather large. What about SQL
>Notes? I hear that scrapbook is a free way to save webpages. Are they saved as html? If I
>used scrapbook is there a good, maybe even free, database for organizing and
>annotating them, which I can then link to the ON pages?
> >OK, that’s a lot of questions.
>Thank you for your thoughts.