Dan Bricklin's Note Taker for the Apple iPhone

http://danbricklin.com/log/2009_12_05.htm

by jamesjyu • 17 years ago

44 9 17 years ago

gojomo• 17 years ago

Neat, but he already had me at "Dan Bricklin..."

Wish the writing scale were adjustable with standard multitouch 'zoom' gestures (rather than a 3-way toggle).

The auto-advance-region could include some mirroring of the rightmost connecting ink, to get the spacing/connections right. (Or perhaps, every pen lift could cause a recentering on the lift-point?)

Would love thicker pens (and maybe even fills or other colors).

vinodlive• 17 years ago

Wish it does OCR!

param• 17 years ago

Won't install on OS < 3.1.

I wish there was a release for 3.0 firmware. I am in no hurry to upgrade to 3.1

icey• 17 years ago

This sort of attitude is why we're still forced to support IE 6

CrazedGeek• 17 years ago

There's at least somewhat of a good reason for still supporting some version of FW 2.0 - the iPod touch, which has a fee for upgrading to a major version.

kqr2• 17 years ago

Previous discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=997264

nixy2• 17 years ago

I can't say I found Dan's app all that useful. After trying it out for a while I "benchmarked" writing a text using the iPhone keyboard vs. writing with Dan's app. I found that I wrote slower using the Note Taker app than with the keyboard, and the text I produced with Note Taker was much more unreadable than the one I entered using the keyboard -- even though the keyboard text had some typing errors in it.

The biggest problem with Dan's app for me is that I can only produce a couple of consecutive characters before I have to break my flow. I constantly max out the jotting space and reach the rightmost end of the screen. Continuing to write to the left of the characters I just produced is so very, very unintuitive. I'd rather the characters I've finished writing automatically shift to the left so that my typing area is always in the middle of the screen. This way I wouldn't have to actively look for an empty space to jot my next character.

quizbiz• 17 years ago

Just write in the gray box instead of scrolling (per the help doc).

nixy2• 17 years ago

That's what I was doing, and that's what I don't like. Continuing to write the word to the left of the part of the word I've already written -- that's not my cup of tea.

Dan Bricklin's Note Taker for the Apple iPhone

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