As mentioned a while back, I recently obtained a Lenovo ThinkPad X61 Tablet PC, which I’ve been playing around with a bunch. I like it quite a bit– the handwriting recognition is a whole lot better than the older Toshiba model I used for a while last year, and the interface works a little more smoothly. Of course, it runs Vista, and the Office redesign is a world of pain, but you can’t win ’em all.<\/p>\n
There are a couple of things I’d like to be able to do with this that I suspect will require new software. In particular, I’d like to be able to use it to make occasional sketches, and put together lecture notes. I did this previously using the Windows Journal program, which would be really useful if you could export the files as, well, just about any format other than greyscale TIFF. I wrote out a couple of weeks’ worth of lectures in Journal before discovering that I could get them into a format useful for students only by first saving them in Microsoft’s one-page web archive format, then opening them in Explorer and printing to PDF. This is, shall we say, sub-optimal.<\/p>\n
So, my question to you, the tech-savvy readers of the Internet, is: What should I be using instead? A colleague who has a tablet says nice things about Grafigo<\/a>, particularly the way it turns rough sketches into more regular shapes, and that sounds interesting. Google also turns up things like this article on tablet software<\/a>, some of which sounds kind of cool (MathJournal<\/a> in particular), but I’d love to hear feedback from people who aren’t professional software reviewers.<\/p>\n So, what should I be putting on my shiny new tablet? Or, to put it in a slightly different form, what should I be asking people to buy me for Christmas to put on my shiny new tablet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As mentioned a while back, I recently obtained a Lenovo ThinkPad X61 Tablet PC, which I’ve been playing around with a bunch. I like it quite a bit– the handwriting recognition is a whole lot better than the older Toshiba model I used for a while last year, and the interface works a little more… Continue reading Tablet PC Software Query<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}