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This is just too cool! - A pen sized color scanner!
http://www.planonstore.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=21
So it looks like I can scan just about anything and then use Paperport to view it and do touch up work on my Shift.
This is a mobile professionals dream!
I just got my first shift and now that I am extra mobile, it's time to start looking at all those nice toys to go with it!
I'll probably purchase this in the near future and let you know how it goes.
Here is a video of it too! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zQHt1AVavM&feature=related
And it looks like they make a small bluetooth thermal printer too!
If anyone has these already, can you please post your experience with it?
I've very interested (and tempted) to get one! (but only after I upgrade my Hard Drive and SD card)
This is cool, you can scan and save imags to an SD Card; so no need for a PC next to you.
I just watched the youtube clip, wow... Definitely a useful product.
I read lots of reviews on this thing and most are bad
From my own experience of an old hand scanner I had, it is very difficult to run the scanner at an even speed and not get a wobbly scanned image. Unless there is some sort of mechanism in this new one that will even out the speed variation you get when you move the scanner down the page, I cannot see any use for it. But there is always hope for new technologies. *__*
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wovens said:
From my own experience of an old hand scanner I had, it is very difficult to run the scanner at an even speed and not get a wobbly scanned image. Unless there is some sort of mechanism in this new one that will even out the speed variation you get when you move the scanner down the page, I cannot see any use for it. But there is always hope for new technologies. *__*
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couldnt agree more...using planon docupen 800rc for 2yrs now, and never, i could get usable results, on the side of the poor scaning technology, bad battery and lousy sync software...if this scanner was to be used in real life
situations and you are to depend on it...better stick to good old flatbeds
I've read some bad reviews on this.
Meanwhile, you can use the digital camera to input your documents. Even for Abby Fine Reader for example. If you need higher resolution, you can use software to combine multple pictures to one.
Hi!
I read that Archos 101 have some issues with Google Marketplace.
I'm between buy Archos 101 or iPad (I'm inclined to Archos)
I want to use it for read large-sized pdfs, comics (CBR and CBZ), web browsing, office productivity and read news.
My questions is:
- Is it possible to install apps like NyTimes through the apk, since it is protected market and can't be installed through the Market? I searched but nothing found (it's a bit difficult to understant since I dont have the tablet yet )
- Is it posible to install RepliGo or other fast pdf readers through the appmonster or the Market and use it with good quality (I mean, full res and full size pages?)
- Is it posible to use BT keyboard?
- Is it multitasking?
Thanks in advance!
Best Buy
There is a Tablet at Best Buy for 300 and it is made by Huawei. It includes the market and hard button home. It looks like a really good device. I would have bought that if I had know it was out before getting this.
The plus side to Best Buy is get you better support then you do from Archos. I am not sure the quality since I did not buy that one. It is something to keep in mind.
I am not saying I don't like my device but I am saying they left much to be desired that could have been better for the same price.
As far as questions go, since market is not default you have to use another app to get to the apk. I am not sure if NYtimes is working. Also there has been reported issues with BT and KB while using Wifi. I am not sure if this was fixed in the last patch. All Androids are Multitasking. I dont think they ever released on that was not. I hope this helps. You make want to go to a store and look at a 10" and 7". You may find the 10 is to cumbersome. Also Apples device is much heaver then Archos.
Faldiin
P.S. MOD can we move this to the correct forum please. They will get better Answers.
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There is a Tablet at Best Buy for 300 and it is made by Huawei. It includes the market and hard button home. It looks like a really good device. I would have bought that if I had know it was out before getting this.
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While it has built in GPS it doesn't have quite a few things that the Archos 70 and 101 have.
The 70 and 101 have capacitive screens while the Huawei is the less versatile resistive screen.
The Archos Gen8's have hdmi out while the Huawei does not.
The Archos have internal storage (8g and 16g) and supports SD cards up to 32gb, but the Huawei lacks internal storage and is limited to 16gb sd cards.
The Gen 8's are running Android 2.2 (which has JIT and flash support) while the Huawei is stuck running 2.1
The Gen 8's support many video formats that the Huawei does not.
There are additional advantages to the Archo's Gen8's over the Huawei, but for most people the list above is enough to see that the Huawei is lacking in quite a few areas.
I bought the Archos 101 mostly for the things you want them for. Reading comics and PDFs with some web browsing and simple document work. Repligo works fine for PDF, though I prefer EZPDF Reader. Has a better interface. Quality is good, full size and res. ACV works really great for comics and is free. Reading in landscape or portrait is a snap. Scrolling is smooth as is page transitions.
I had an iPad before and reading comics and PDFs was definitely not as convenient as it was with the 101. The widescreen is more conducive to reading I found and the device is actually a bit lighter as well.
And if you care, the video capabilities of the Archos blow the iPad out of the water. I'm not sorry about returning my iPad at all.
Thank you for the quick reply, guys.
(and sorry for the wrong forum )
Well, I can't test an Archos on the store, since I live in Brazil, and they don't sell it on the stores yet. My brother will gonna bring me a tablet in January, so, that's why i'm asking some simple questions.
I believe that Archos will be my better - and cheaper - choice. I'm little afraid about the comic resizing (since here, in Brazil, comic formats are different from the USA. They're most like 4:3 aspect ratio).
Last two questions:
About magazines (like MAD Magazine ), mostly then are readable at full screen?
And, most important... Does Repligo or EZPDF (or any pdf reader) have the "lock scrolling" feature, like GoodReader for iPhone? Let me clarify: if I use lock scrolling, It's not posible to make horizontal scroll, only vertical. It's useful for pdfs that have big and uniform margins.
Tks again!
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Thank you for the quick reply, guys.
(and sorry for the wrong forum )
Well, I can't test an Archos on the store, since I live in Brazil, and they don't sell it on the stores yet. My brother will gonna bring me a tablet in January, so, that's why i'm asking some simple questions.
Tks again!
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Sorry about the P.S. Part. It was not meant as a flame. I was saying that so we could get more comments for you. There is always a different opinion depending on what each uses the device for.
Like for me, I find no use in the HDMI out. I don't use it and you need a special cable. 16GB of storage, Well I never use the 8 I have in mine. Since all my stuff is compressed and on my 16gb stick. I am happy. So each has the plus and minus for what you use it for. I read the Newspaper on mine with the App. I have not tried Magazines. I would love to thou. I need to look in that. I like reading books on mine but the software buttons get int eh way of my reader. This is the down fall of the way the device was made. I still like mine thou.
Faldiin
P.S. Have your brother check it for errors before coming down. I got mine with dead pixels out of the box. Waiting to get mine back from the shop. Shipping from Brazil is probably not cheap.
Hi there.
I read through the forums here looking for answers to my specific questions, but found them only partly answered, so I thought a new thread might be justified. Truth be told, the noob video kinda scared me out of posting, so I guess it suits its purpose.
So, here's my story:
I've been looking for a device to view, read and annotate digital texts and ebooks with for quite some time. I read a lot of papers (mostly PDF, some DOC and ePUB), and until now I've always gone back to printing and adding handwritten notes on the side.
So my question now is: How well can the flyer handle that sort of job.
Here's a list of jobs/things it would need to do:
-reasonably view all kinds of formats (text-PDF, image-PDF, epub, doc etc.)
-highlight, mark and annotate texts
-ability to hide/display on and export those annotations to other devices (at least windows-based systems)
-note syncing with evernote/dropbox or similar would be a plus, but storing the notes within the actual files is sufficient
I've read up on the flyer around the web, but couldn't quite figure out how well it does fit my demands. From what I gathered so far, the scribe pen notations seem to be rather tightly bound to the device, which would be somewhat counter-productive.
So I would highly appreciate it, if someone who uses the flyer in a similar fashion could comment on this, or possibly recommend a better fitting device (I have been eyeballing quite a few over the years, but none seemed as promising as the flyer does).
Thanks!
I am a scientist, and I purchased the Flyer primarily to annotate PDF files. Here is my opinion.
The native pdf viewer is adequate. It is not good, and not bad. Annotating is very easy, and overall a very positive experience. Except for one GLARING problem. The pen size in the pdf annotation cannot get small enough. Zoomed in, the pen size is so large you can only fit 1-2 words of annotation in the side margins, and you can BARELY underline txt (let alone try and fix txt in between lines). HTC "knows" about this issue, but that is all they have stated. I contacted another PDF program (eezpdf or something like that) they said they are planning on supporting pen devices in the future, but would not commit to the Flyer specifically.
It is usable in it's current form, just not as I imagined.
The ebook reader is an absolute delight. They (I guess it would be Borders who made it) should be commended. If you can/want, I would convert all your pdf's to ebooks to annotate.
The note application has some issues (in landscape mode the pen side is still too big for my taste), but it is also overall good. Some additional work could be done here with the palm recognition.
Hope this helps.
I think Flyer is not perfect for academic use because right now there are so many limitation in software implementation for the first kind of android tablet which uses active digitizer. So the problem resides not on the hardware but on the low maturity of the software.
I think we can compromise the limitations, and with some tweakings, we can become very productive with Flyer. Not just because of the magic pen, but also form factor and the speed of multitasking work with this tablet.
If you plan to do full scribble activity, the easiest way to do that is by making some empty pdf pages which can be write with magic pen without automatic saving trouble and activation of soft keyboard.
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I agree with the above posts. If you're willing to work with the limited software, the Flyer is viable for accomplishing your listed task.
The pen enabled Kobo reader does a good job of highlighting, markup and handwritten annotations of epub. It does not natively recognize pdf, but there are programs which can convert the PDFs to epub for imported into Kobo. I use Caliber on my Windows machine. The conversion is fairly straightforward, but it is an extra step (saving the converted epub to dropbox is a quick way of getting the disc onto the Flyer).
The pen enabled PDF reader, I believe from Foxit, can highlight text, but the line weight is too thick. But usable in a bind. I can sign docs, flatten and return to the sender.
I'm not sure about creating a blank PDF for scribble... The auto-saving can get in the way sometimes, but it hasn't bothered me, I don't take notes non-stop though. Learning to touch the pen tip down before andor touching the edge of the note with your other hand reduces the keyboard from popping up.
As with anything you would be the best judge of the functionality. Find a Flyer from a local retailer with a generous return policy.
Hope that helps.
I bought the Flyer with many of the same motivations that you have, as I work extensively with documents. For the most part, it has fulfilled my needs very well, though I do agree with some of the shortcomings raised by other posters here regarding the PDF application.
The Polaris Office app lets you use the pen to mark up Word and Excel documents and the comments you make with the pen are then visible on your PC. If you have access to Word versions of a document rather than PDF this may be a better option as the pen width is much better. Marking up documents in the Reader app is a delight, but I can't seem to find a way to view what you've done in the book on other devices.
The only other device I've had that allowed me the same kind of flexibility was a fully fledged Windows tablet. That allowed me to do a lot more, but couldn't compare to the ease of portability of the Flyer. I think it's a winner of you have to work with documents a lot.
Thank you all for your replies so far.
I have a follow-up question though: Since the flyer has been around for a bit now and you probably all have some perspective on how the developer community is coming along, I'm wondering: Do you think there will be enough community support to keep the device somewhat viable (particularly in this specific field of usage), even if HTC is lackluster in supporting it?
There are more tablets coming this winter with pen support. So, I would say there will be plenty of roms and apps to come. Sammy, eeepad memo from Asus and a few others have them coming. Pen support is a must have for a tablet and I bet the new HTC Puccini will even have some type of support. It will be refined within this tablets lifetime in my opinion. If you are not afraid to wait and not afraid of maybe quality problems then the memo is due in December. I wouldn't though. Asus has fallen off over the years. HTC makes a good product and they support it. This pad will get better along with its pen apps. I've used the other tablets and owned two Sammy 10.1 tablets. I still came back to this one for college use.
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Thank you all for your replies so far.
I have a follow-up question though: Since the flyer has been around for a bit now and you probably all have some perspective on how the developer community is coming along, I'm wondering: Do you think there will be enough community support to keep the device somewhat viable (particularly in this specific field of usage), even if HTC is lackluster in supporting it?
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The devs have just achieved S-off (they will be releasing it to us soonish). After, that I know we have 2 devs that own flyers and will probably be cooking roms for it.
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The pen enabled PDF reader, I believe from Foxit, can highlight text, but the line weight is too thick. But usable in a bind. I can sign docs, flatten and return to the sender.
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I bought the device for the same reason as the threadstarter.
I just started my pdh and want to read a lot of PDFs when I travel or just sit in the tube, so I looked for the stylus and the annotation function. Until now (got the Flyer 4 weeks ago) Im very glad that I took the HTC Flyer, because of the size and the performance. But I have one problem with the Foxit PDF reader. I open the data and write something on it, then I save it two or three times. Until now everything is fine. Then when I want to save it again there is some kind of message, that "there is not enough space to save the data" and I cant save the new annotations. It was very frustrating, when I read a 10 pages with a lot of annotations and the save function didnt work... Has anyonehad the same experience or is there another programm (not the ebookreader trick) to annotate pdfs?
The ezPDF reader does not work with the stylus. you cant annotate the PDFs, instead you can just make a screenshot and write on it, but its not the same.
Yes, I'm pretty sure the "not enough space" thing is a bug. I sent HTC a support ticket about it. Don't know the update cycle -- maybe you can add to the complaints
Essentially, it happens whenever I annotate a pdf and save it, and continue reading the same pdf. If I annotate any more and try to save it, it will give "not enough space".
My workaround has been to actually exit to the menu with the list of pdfs after saving, then reopening the same pdf.
Ah okay, I will check this trick. This will spare me a lot of nerves, just save the annotations end the app and restart it
I used Samsung note stuff for a while but I was never happy with how the pages were handled, and also the speed of drawing on the page was not impressive. The worst issue was that I was not able to sync between my devices because I do not use samsung account etc So I looked around and I tried bunch of apps and I settled with LectureNotes mostly because its indepth settings and it is no bull**** database approach which makes it syncable. A notebookis basically a folder with bunch of files in it in LectureNotes then I use Sycnthing to sync to other devices.
I highly recommend it to YB owners because I feel like it is a great fit and also the speed of drawing in it is much faster than my Samsun 10.1 it feels good. I also use it with real pen tip/notebook to make sketches that works great as well.
LectureNotes offer shortcuts to documents so you can just click an icon and open any document from the desktop.
Anyway I am not affiliated with the dev at all, but he has xda pages and he seems to be super responsive guy. And it is under active development. Check it out, give it a try. My biggest complaint about it is that it does not offer hand writing recognition like the Samsung app does. also no windows app. However it offers PDF exports.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.acadoid.lecturenotes
https://www.acadoid.com/
Fow the windows version there is an app called Write which has Android/Win/Mac support as far as I can tell not as feature rich as LectureNotes but seems good as a cross platform note taker. This one uses folders as well so you cna sync between devices.
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I used Samsung note stuff for a while but I was never happy with how the pages were handled, and also the speed of drawing on the page was not impressive. The worst issue was that I was not able to sync between my devices because I do not use samsung account etc So I looked around and I tried bunch of apps and I settled with LectureNotes mostly because its indepth settings and it is no bull**** database approach which makes it syncable. A notebookis basically a folder with bunch of files in it in LectureNotes then I use Sycnthing to sync to other devices.
I highly recommend it to YB owners because I feel like it is a great fit and also the speed of drawing in it is much faster than my Samsun 10.1 it feels good. I also use it with real pen tip/notebook to make sketches that works great as well.
LectureNotes offer shortcuts to documents so you can just click an icon and open any document from the desktop.
Anyway I am not affiliated with the dev at all, but he has xda pages and he seems to be super responsive guy. And it is under active development. Check it out, give it a try. My biggest complaint about it is that it does not offer hand writing recognition like the Samsung app does. also no windows app. However it offers PDF exports.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.acadoid.lecturenotes
https://www.acadoid.com/
Fow the windows version there is an app called Write which has Android/Win/Mac support as far as I can tell not as feature rich as LectureNotes but seems good as a cross platform note taker. This one uses folders as well so you cna sync between devices.
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For android I would recommend fiinote. Works pretty well.
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For android I would recommend fiinote. Works pretty well.
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Sorry man, fiinote is slow as hell when it comes to drawing. I still recommend LectureNotes.
hajkan said:
Sorry man, fiinote is slow as hell when it comes to drawing. I still recommend LectureNotes.
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For drawings = artrage
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For drawings = artrage
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Artrage is like 5 times slower than any other Android art app really. I recomend Ravioli, LayerPaint, Sketchbook, Infinite Painter if you want more natural drawing experience. I have no idea what the hell Lenovo was thinking when they thought that Artrage would be a good choice to put as a default art app on this tablet.
is there any chance to replace the hot button note taking app? I identified the default app to export wrongly and would like to replace it
I have a Win10 Yoga Book - great tool, I just wish I could take simple handwritten notes on screen, even if it means picking up a compatible Bluetooth pen, such as the recently released Wacom Bamboo Tip. Has anyone had any luck with taking notes directly on the screen?
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I have a Win10 Yoga Book - great tool, I just wish I could take simple handwritten notes on screen, even if it means picking up a compatible Bluetooth pen, such as the recently released Wacom Bamboo Tip. Has anyone had any luck with taking notes directly on the screen?
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The Bamboo Tip is not pressure sensitive (neither does it use Bluetooth - I might be wrong). If you don't need pressure sensitivity you can actually use your normal Lenovo Pen with WriteIt straight on the screen... No palm rejection though, but I use it frequently and it works quite smooth once you get used to it...
https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/es/en/...t-series/thinkpad-tablet-2/downloads/ds106113
jamespmi, what is your setup? I have worked with it for several days on my Win10 Yoga Book using the Real Pen stylus and the results have been a bit less than satisfactory. Perhaps I need to tweak the memory. What works best for you?
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jamespmi, what is your setup? I have worked with it for several days on my Win10 Yoga Book using the Real Pen stylus and the results have been a bit less than satisfactory. Perhaps I need to tweak the memory. What works best for you?
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What I use to do on all PC's first: Flushing the preinstalled OS and setting it up by hand. Debloating it to the max. The difference is more than surprising.
If you don't want to go through the Driver-Headache maybe "Sandman45654"'s Guide would be helpful for you:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/yoga-book/how-to/windows-guide-creating-windows-10-t3718823
Trying to find a good app for lecture note taking with my Galaxy Tab S6 (which is on its way). I seen literally hundreds of reviews, videos etc. I've made a short list of (possibly) the best available apps for android, but I'd like to have the opinion of experts on this matter. Why am I being proactive with this? Well my tablet was received damaged and a replacement on its way, but I'm really running late with my notes and workload piling up.
I don't mind paying for a good app, as long as it does the job it was intended for. I take engineering notes with lots of math formulas. Handwriting OCR is a must. My humble shortlist after doing my research is:
- Nebo
- Squid
- OneNote
- MS Word
Most of these apps were exhaustively reviewed with an iPad, so I'm not sure which one of these, or any other I missed can do the job on the Tab S6.
Any opinions or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I can only speak to Nebo. I bought it for it's excellent 'written text to .txt' function; aslo does Word (.docx), PDF or HTML. It is in continual development, and they've added some new features just in the last few weeks. Works very well at deciphering even my scribbles that I can hardly make out.
Something to check out is FiiNote; I'm just now starting to evaluate it, (as a replacement for Joplin, not a note-taking app, but good for information consolidation).
FYI, my work-flow using Nebo and Joplin us to scribble notes in Nebo—>convert to plain text—>paste in to Joplin.
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I can only speak to Nebo. I bought it for it's excellent 'written text to .txt' function; aslo does Word (.docx), PDF or HTML. It is in continual development, and they've added some new features just in the last few weeks. Works very well at deciphering even my scribbles that I can hardly make out.
Something to check out is FiiNote; I'm just now starting to evaluate it, (as a replacement for Joplin, not a note-taking app, but good for information consolidation).
FYI, my work-flow using Nebo and Joplin us to scribble notes in Nebo—>convert to plain text—>paste in to Joplin.
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Thanks TiTiB for your input. I've purchased and tested Nebo with the Tab S6. Handwriting is indeed faster than OneNote. Math formula writing is again much better. The downside, you cannot import something from pdf, like a graph or a photo from your notes into Nebo. Export to Word works well. I try to do some formatting and inserting graphs using Word on Windows, which takes some time. Dark theme is also not available, which should save some battery. Have you noticed that any of these features can work somehow?
Other than that, Nebo is a very good app.
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Thanks TiTiB for your input. I've purchased and tested Nebo with the Tab S6. Handwriting is indeed faster than OneNote. Math formula writing is again much better. The downside, you cannot import something from pdf, like a graph or a photo from your notes into Nebo. Export to Word works well. I try to do some formatting and inserting graphs using Word on Windows, which takes some time. Dark theme is also not available, which should save some battery. Have you noticed that any of these features can work somehow?
Other than that, Nebo is a very good app.
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I have not used any Word functions (nor even Word, for that matter). I don't use Nebo fo anything other than 'scribbles-to-text' ability. I use Joplin for 'consolidation' of text and image/pdf files; tho, like I said, I have FiiNotes installed and am evaluating that app.
Noteledge maybe?
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Noteledge maybe?
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So far I've tried more than a dozen apps and none of them seem to be able to do what I'm trying to achieve!
Currently trying to test Joblin. I'll try Noteledge then and see how it goes.
I'm afraid that buying the Tab S6 for becoming more productive in note taking was a waste of money and time!
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So far I've tried more than a dozen apps and none of them seem to be able to do what I'm trying to achieve!
Currently trying to test Joblin. I'll try Noteledge then and see how it goes.
I'm afraid that buying the Tab S6 for becoming more productive in note taking was a waste of money and time!
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Can you please elaborate on why it's a waste of money and time? I'm considering buying a Tab S6 (or iPad 10.2 + Pencil), also for lecture note taking and would really appreciate your opinion.
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Can you please elaborate on why it's a waste of money and time? I'm considering buying a Tab S6 (or iPad 10.2 + Pencil), also for lecture note taking and would really appreciate your opinion.
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I extensively tested the Tab S6 for note taking only, nothing else, since I have a lot of homework piling up. I spent more than 2 weeks with that. I could name over 20 note taking apps that I have tried in the process.
The ones I worked with the most since I found more suitable than the others were OneNote, Nebo, Notion, Evernote, Joplin. Every single one of them has something missing which is covered by the other. It is not my purpose to mention pros and cons of each of those. Bottom line, I straggled trying to figure out a way to work more efficiently than taking notes either on paper or using MS Word on the laptop. In the end I realized I was much faster with the laptop!
Tab S6 appears to be an excellent machine, very fast and handy if you are on the go. It's probably the best android tablet out there at this point. However, the android apps are not as good. I've purchased paid versions of some of them above, but still I wasn't efficient enough.
Most of professional apps out there for tablets are demonstrated using either iPad Pro or Surface (YouTube videos). So I was misguided to buy the Tab S6 since I thought that it could cover all these. Big mistake! If you want to make a shopping list or a to-do list on the tablet fine, but that's about it. Besides I don't know why should anyone bother with that anyway, just use the phone.
Don't get me wrong, the Tab S6 was an excellent machine, but cannot compete with the power or multitasking of a laptop. I'm saying "was" because I gave up 2 days ago and I'm back to the old fashion way. Currently, I'm looking for a WACOM or using Notion on laptop to evaluate and see if any of those can to the job efficiently.
I almost mainly use OneNote for note-taking for work, works great for me... And I now noticed OneNote introduced dark mode which is great for oled screens. Every now and then I use Samsung NOtes for a quick random note.
But give some concrete examples of what would be missing because right now it just feels like your greatly exeggarating here. The very general 'every app was missing something' doesn't help either.
I use mainly written notes btw, bought the tabs6 as a replacement for my paper-note-taking primarily.
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I almost mainly use OneNote for note-taking for work, works great for me... And I now noticed OneNote introduced dark mode which is great for oled screens. Every now and then I use Samsung NOtes for a quick random note.
But give some concrete examples of what would be missing because right now it just feels like your greatly exeggarating here. The very general 'every app was missing something' doesn't help either.
I use mainly written notes btw, bought the tabs6 as a replacement for my paper-note-taking primarily.
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If you want details, I'll try to be brief:
-OneNote: probably the best of all I've tried, but, I had to use 3 different versions of OneNote to complete my notes, plus MS Word in the end. OneNote on android for taking handwrtitten notes, which by the way cannot recognize math formulas, and I have a lot. Fortunately auto sync on all devices, so used OneNote on W10 to insert graphs and tables. This one has a dark mode as well, but many features are missing. The fully loaded OneNote 2016, which unfortunately is being phased out, has everything, no dark mode, but that's not a problem. Then export to docx, which needs some further formatting and corrections. One problem there, math formulas are extracted as images, not formulas! But overall, OneNote was the best I used. Finally realized, I was faster typing everything on my laptop using Word!
-Nebo: very good with math formulas and all these are transferred as actual formulas when exporting to Word. Dark mode as well. Cannot import tables or graphs, so I had to do this in Word with laptop. Still faster with the laptop!
-Joplin: Excellent app, but still more complete on the Windows version rather than the android app. Didn't practice much with this, still much to learn.
-Notion: excellent app, many possibilities, like Joplin, more powerful on the Windows version rather than the android app. Still much to learn from this.
The handwriting recognition on the Tab S6 is excellent, but I have the impression that everything is done from the tablet itself, not by the different apps. So all the credit for the text recognition goes to the tablet not to the apps, which all use the same input method. I could go on and on, but I have homework to do. I'm stating my honest opinion here, nothing to do with manufacturers or anything else. Unlike many videos posted on YouTube and others, which present things in such an incredible way, giving wrong impressions at times, especially for apps.
euclid444 said:
If you want details, I'll try to be brief:
-OneNote: probably the best of all I've tried, but, I had to use 3 different versions of OneNote to complete my notes, plus MS Word in the end. OneNote on android for taking handwrtitten notes, which by the way cannot recognize math formulas, and I have a lot. Fortunately auto sync on all devices, so used OneNote on W10 to insert graphs and tables. This one has a dark mode as well, but many features are missing. The fully loaded OneNote 2016, which unfortunately is being phased out, has everything, no dark mode, but that's not a problem. Then export to docx, which needs some further formatting and corrections. One problem there, math formulas are extracted as images, not formulas! But overall, OneNote was the best I used. Finally realized, I was faster typing everything on my laptop using Word!
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OneNote 2016 for Windows is some kind of a Swiss army knife to me... especially with Addons
Because of the downgrades in the 2019 version, I bought OneNote 2016 (Office Home & Student 2016) several months ago.
And the Onetastic-Addon :good:
Good news regarding OneNote 2016?
@euclid444: for math formulas, did you try
- Microsoft Mathematics-Add-In for OneNote (for windows)
- MyScript Calculator 2 (android)
I want to add Lecture Notes to the list.