[65] in bcs-newton
Re: Newton Transcription Rate
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miles R Fidelman)
Wed Mar 24 19:06:21 1993
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 19:00:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Miles R Fidelman <fidelman@world.std.com>
To: bcs-newton@world.std.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.05.9303241817.A13772-9100000@world.std.com>
> > how fast it will be able to recognize handwriting
>
> I'd like to know too. I've always pictured myself as being able to act
> like a reporter using a reporter's notebook -- but with a Newton. It would
> be nice to know this picture had some bearing on reality.
>
I'd be happy if it recognizes only designated words and keeps everything
else as "electronic ink." I figure that if I had to write every word
neatly, I'd never be able to take notes in a meeting. My primary need is
to be able to get back to some notes, and usually only a fraction of the
text needs to be indexed (full text search is nice, but I can live without
it).
Consider an electronic day-runner: For a given meeting or phone call, it
will already know the date and time. The people involved need only be
entered once. After that the major things that need to be recognized and
indexed are topics and action items.
I know that there's a pen-based note-taking package that works this way.
Anything written in the margin goes to the recognizer, everything else
stays as ink.
