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Oh, haven't read the article yet, but expected the same thing. To make this work, I need a nice copy/paste method for pen+touch input to input the link, along

• perihelions 4y ago
  Gestures on epaper will be absurdly, hilariously overpowered. Gesturing with fingers on touchscreen is sluggish and imprecise; it's not at all like handwriting (and who in the pre-digital era wrote books with the technique of finger-painting? It'd be absurd). But, how many distinct glyphs can you draw with a fine-tipped pen in a quarter of a second? 50? 100? Easily the entire Latin and Greek alphabets, just as a starting point. It's a high-bandwidth input channel, just like a PC keyboard. All you would need to control an epaper with gestures is to reserve some subset of the character-glyph space as an in-band control channel. Glyph shapes that are never semantically valid as written text. Shapes that are easy to reliably parse, which are highly "orthogonal" to written text, as well as to other control gestures. - "How do you click the links though?" I'd suggest they be interpreted as special "active" regions with a single default action, so any user input works, if it's within the region. Scratch a line over them and they open. My thinking is controlling the machine, and writing, should be the same actions and combine together fluidly: everything is a pen stroke.