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FYI with OneNote and a digitizer stylus as the Surface Pro comes with you can just write your notes on the screen. OneNote will recognize the handwriting and al
by Livven 13y ago
FYI with OneNote and a digitizer stylus as the Surface Pro comes with you can just write your notes on the screen. OneNote will recognize the handwriting and allow you to search through it etc.
Sorry if you already know that, from the way your comment is phrased it looks like you don't so I thought I'd throw it out.
- mikevm 13y agoI don't think it'd be particularly efficient. I need to be able to write proofs (which include lots of math symbols) and draw diagrams very quickly. I've seen people do it with digitizers, but the results ends up being rather poor. Pen & paper still looks best.
- mietek 13y agoIs there a usable handwriting recognizer which can deal with heavy math notation?
- Livven 13y agoWindows comes with a dedicated math handwriting input panel. Totally random, all because of their long (failed) push for Tablet PCs. I'm not sure how well it works though.
- ygra 13y agoIt needs a lot of massaging, at least for my handwriting. But it's been a while that I tried it with an actual pen. The main problem is that it recognizes strokes, so if you go back and close a gap in a symbol to make it appear right the recognizer will think you changed o to σ or something like that. Back in uni I was able to take math notes quite well by typing in Word. The math notation there is similar enough to LaTeX (including most macros for symbols) but types much faster. But that's not handwriting, admittedly.
- chad_oliver 13y agoI came across MyScript yesterday, and have been very impressed. It's an SDK which can recognize handwritten math (among other things). It has correctly recognized everything I've thrown at it so far, even though I'm using a mouse so my writing's pretty crappy. I'm seriously considering trying to build something with the API. I'm not sure what; I just want to play with the cool technology. Perhaps an app which gives you an algebra question, then uses math recognition to interpret your working. It could then see that you made a mistake on step three (for example). Perhaps I've just late to the party, but I'm still astounded that this is possible. You can check out a demo here: http://webdemo.visionobjects.com/home.html#equation http://webdemo.visionobjects.com/home.html#equation
- mietek 13y agoWow! This is seriously impressive.
- greeneggs 13y agoThe Surface Pro, with OneNote, works extremely well for this, more efficient than paper. OneNote is buggy and crashes, and the Surface is sometimes slow---so it isn't perfect---but it is still better than paper. High-quality pen input (except at the screen edges), different colors, copy-paste and undo. For reading pdfs, the widescreen is annoying and claustrophobic, and I haven't found any Windows PDF reader that is comparable to Apple's Preview application. Occasionally I've "printed" pdfs to OneNote, to read and edit them there, but this doesn't work great. (You can't drag pdfs into OneNote because Windows and pdfs barely work together at all.)
- hmottestad 13y agoYou really need a 600 dpi screen to do math notes. I used to do math notes on my ipad goodnotes since it has a zoom window.
- scholia 13y agoIn addition, you can record interviews/lectures/etc to your Surface/laptop and sync the audio with your handwritten notes in OneNote. This little-known feature is as old as Windows XP Tablet Edition....