it has 100% accurate handwriting recognition and can easily be used by multiple users-housetier (June 18, 2009, 01:39 PM)
it has 100% accurate handwriting recognition and can easily be used by multiple users-housetier (June 18, 2009, 01:39 PM)Strange, my version of pen&paper only has about 85% accurate handwriting recognitiion, and while I've tried it with multiple users, there seems to be some problems with their recognition engines -TucknDar (June 18, 2009, 01:51 PM)
I use "Pen & Paper" for various reasons: it works when the computer is turned off, you can add notes offline as well as online, it has 100% accurate handwriting recognition and can easily be used by multiple users. It even supports a limited history feature: you can still read old but x-ed out notes. Oh yeah, and pen & paper lets you add freeform graphics, but no moving or audible media. The storage format is open and well-known (for I dont know how many centuries). The backend is compatible with any input device, there cannot be a driver conflict.On the other hand, Pen & Paper is not free.-housetier (June 18, 2009, 01:39 PM)
Seriously, the one time I have needed a note-taking app, I found NoteCase to be more than adequate.I use Xubuntu and so I get a cringe-y feeling whenever I have to install anything that depends too much on Gnome or KDE libs-Edvard (June 18, 2009, 02:06 PM)
The two main causes of the death of PIMs are,1) Incompatibility with new operating systems and the failure of developers to update their PIMs to operate in the new OS, and2) Complete discontinuance of development of a PIM.My discussion here is limited to PIMs used for information, collection, storage and retrieval, as opposed to those, such as single-pane outliners, used for authoring.If one uses a PIM only for short-term projects, the obsoleting of a PIM may not be critical, although there will be the aggravation of finding and learning to use a replacement PIM.But for long term use, the possibility of PIM death can be devastating, unless the PIM has the capability to export its stored information into files using standard formats such as rtf, html and jpg. Even with this capability, such exporting can be an exceedingly long-term, tedious task, UNLESS the PIM has a batch export capability, or one can use a macro program to create the equivalent of batch export.Is there, or could there be, an alternative approach?What about saving information in standard file formats and using other tools to simulate PIM capabilities? (This would enable cross-platform compatibility.)
paste html is a good question: when you copy html on linux, does any URL information get put in the clip memory. I know it does on windows, but I dont think it does on linux. You will need a tool that has a "right click to..." function for that. But there is always a way to chain it, i.e. have a tool that does that, even if it does not have all your features, and have the organiser/searcher tool take the data afterwards (auto import)
Who here would be interested in bundling together a nice donation for some OSS author to either develop a good notetaker for linux or bring new features of the existing ones? We'd need to agree on which project to support, if we do the latter.-urlwolf (August 15, 2009, 11:04 AM)
One possibility would also be to support a specific notetaker's Wine compatibility. Not only would it help Wine's development (maybe...), but it would would also make an already good notetaker multiplatform, so to speak.-Armando (August 16, 2009, 12:01 PM)
The problem with wine is that copy-pasting from a linux browser to a wine app will lose all formatting (and the url of course according to Iphi's findings).-urlwolf (August 16, 2009, 03:43 PM)
