At Sun, 2 Jun 2002 15:38:11 -0700, Freeman Pascal wrote: > I'm playing with ideas for increasing the utility > of my wearable for taking notes while in class. Something I'm into as well. =) I'll be moving to a wearable soon (I just ordered a 5822!), but here are some notes from when I was using a notebook. Sketching is really a tough part, but I got by with a yellow pad and [Figure 1], [Figure 2], [Figure 3]. I only use those for the occasional math equation or diagram, though. =) If the diagrams are not too complicated, you can redraw them in your spare time. Or you can even use a webcam to capture the images and bookmark them right there. For lecture-type classes, I found that downloading reference material and simply noting additions cuts down on the amount of data I have to enter. Naturally this won't work for quick debates, but it's useful when your teachers read off slides. Advantages: Remembrance Agent makes you look smarter. ;) And you can pull in data from other websites. I did that when we were taking up Sartre's "Existentialism is a Humanism", and was pleasantly surprised by the commentary I found on other people's websites. Incidentally, you tend to have a flat surface in class. Bring a PS/2 keyboard - even a regular-sized one, although maybe you want something a little more portable. Put it on your desk and type away. Try not to type everything your teacher says - summarization is nice and helps you keep up - but you can actually transcribe pretty decently. Helps to be a touch-typist. Last semester, I used Emacs in outline mode. Since we have a copy of the syllabi, I simply laid out the topics in advance. I'm not sure if RA helps when all of the data is in a single file, but incremental search sure did. I'm learning Emacs LISP, and I've already written a small tool that'll help me keep track of possible conflicts in my class schedule (registration's tomorrow for me!). I plan to eventually write a random information manager, or at least try to - something that timestamps and cross-references random things I come across all the time. Like EmacsWiki, perhaps, but lending itself well to random muttering. Don't have a CrossPad. Wish I had! Someone wrote some apps for a notebook+webcam as a major qualifying project. Called the WearBook, I think? Hmmm.. Google says it's at http://users.wpi.edu/~bradford/MQP/cs/wearbooks_report.pdf . Worth a read for the kind of application written. Hope you find a solution that works for you! =) Sacha 8) -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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