[BUGA] Re: "Handwriting"

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Saturday, 10 December 2005 at 13:18:07 +1030, David Newall wrote:
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> I'm not sure that dictation is typical.  When did you last take
>> dictation?
>
> Most meetings, at least it's something a bit like dictation.  I was
> trying to think how one might use a PDA, and then I thought back to
> when I had a (nasty, nasty) Newton, and how embarrassing it was to
> use it in a meeting, asking everybody to slow down while I took
> notes on the damned thing.

To be fair, I think this would be the same with just about any input
method, including a good keyboard.  Years ago I tried an experiment:
most of our department went to lunch together at a local restaurant,
and those who didn't sometimes felt left out of the information
disseminated at the "lunch meetings".  I had just got my first laptop,
so I volunteered to keep minutes.  The results are at
http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-nov1989.html .  There may be prizes
for guessing the identity of the customers I have referred to by
letters.  In the context of this thread, though, the fact was that
taking notes significantly reduced the speed of conversation (and my
consumption of Ouzo and Retsina).

>> Ah, there's the rub.  Yes, it would make a lot of sense to do it with
>> an iPAQ; that way I could also decide whether the keyboard makes any
>> sense.  I was really thinking of the on-screen keyboard of a Palm or
>> some such.
>
> I don't quite follow you.  What do you mean, "on-screen keyboard of
> a Palm," as distinct from an iPaq?

Ah, you haven't seen the photo of the machine I'm talking about:
http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/product_detail.do?landing=handhelds&category=handhelds&catLevel=3&storeName=storefronts&subcat1=ipaq_phone&product_code=901502&jumpid=in_r329_personalization/browse1/category_PDP

Greg
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