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kartal:
Well this thing does not fit any simple definition but let me give you little insight

1-it can record everything you write as image
2-it can record audio that is linked to what you write word by word, so anytime you tap on any word you wrote, it will play the audio that was recorded at the time of writing that word.
3-it can be used as translator(it has limited demo at the moment) you write the word on the paper , it translates it for you
4-You can use as just audio recorder
5-You can use as calculator by using the "printed " calculator on the paper, you just tap on numbers
6-You can use as a plain pen
the list can be very long actually, it is a computer with java sdk so waiting developers I guess :)

You need to use the dotted paper. The dotted paper can be used for recording or programming the pen, it is like the interface for the pen.

I do not think the notebooks are expensive also they let you print your paper but you need a postscript printer, might endup being more expensive.

Check out the videos they have on their site.

tranglos:
Well this thing does not fit any simple definition but let me give you little insight
-kartal (January 10, 2009, 04:00 PM)
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Thanks, kartal, that's very informative! I'll go watch the videos next.

I can see why the pen needs the dot paper, but it just might break the deal for me, since I'm in Poland, so shipping time and price are a concern. The pen is sold by amazon.com, but, strangely, not by amazon.co.uk, so it looks like they're not targeting the European market. It's hard to find anything about shipping on their all-Flash site, so I'll need to email their sales dept first.

sciagent:
Hi All

Great thanks to all of you for your effort devoted to this thread!

I work with information for years and got very tired of many different software packages I have to use to handle data. Thus I started my personal small research in order to verify the best available options for the note-taking + web-clipping + data/knowledge-management + research-tool software. This is how I came across this thread and was very lucky with it since I found some very interesting ideas here.

So, what is the most resent situation in this area? Do we have any conclusions? Is it a good idea to start round 2?

Here is a nice list of the research tools:
http://www.researchresources.info/

What about the use of semantic technologies, has anyone got any good experience with any applications from the discussion topic that are empowered with those? Those are the technologies (RDF, schemas, ontologies, query languages, etc.) that have their main strength in operations with data (to describe/annotate, link, query, etc.), thus, have to be very valuable for the applications we discuss.

Here are few examples:
•   NEPOMUK Semantic Desktop:
http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/
It is available in two forms, as Java application (cross-platform) and as an integrated part of KDE.
•   Zotero:
http://www.zotero.org/
It is the Firefox extension but not only
•   Hypertext Knowledge Workbench:
http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Hypertext_Knowledge_Workbench
A very young yet project

rjbull:
Mark Wieczorek has a fairly short but interesting Comparison of Outliners that includes several I don't remember as having been mentioned in this thread so far.

cyberdiva:
Here is a nice list of the research tools:
http://www.researchresources.info/
-sciagent (February 17, 2009, 07:40 PM)
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I took a quick look at this listing.  Though it has a 2009 date, some of the information is not current.  For example, it doesn't list WebResearch, software I have used with pleasure for years.  It does list ContentSaver, which was the former name of WebResearch, but the name was changed several years ago.  Moreover, the website the listing provides for ContentSaver is not connected to the research software.

I don't know how accurate the rest of the information is on this listing, but its handling of WebResearch/ContentSaver doesn't inspire confidence.

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