Stationary is Bad. Once you’re through the Flash animation, click on the Videos tabs for some clever shorts. Looks like Microsoft is, at least, reasonably savvy to the fact that people forward silly videos to each other in the office: I got this one from my sister.
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I think my favorite is the rubber band one, probably because it has the best performances, but you can totally see the moment where she cuts it to make “snap.”
Quick – name something in your office that annoys you, sometimes just doesn’t work, and occasionally doesn’t do what it’s supposed to.
If you’re like the majority of the people in my office, Odds are pretty good that you said your windows based computer.
Is Microsoft seriously trying to suggest that their new product “One Note” that requires typing and/or a tablet pc, and runs on windows in either scenario, is better and/or more reliable than a pen and paper?
That video isn’t even funny. It’s a sad attempt by an obsolete company to create a need where there isn’t one.
Ryan–I would agree with you, especially lately. I’ve been using a Dell laptop that could only have been designed by firey demon monkeys. The keyboard (you know–the part of a machine you interact with /most/) is horrifyingly bad with its missed keypresses and poor tactile feel. This, of course, forces me to type even harder, which produces double keypresses and its fair share of carpal tunnel stress.
The software has its own issues, too. Hibernate is a joke: when the machine starts up, all of the cooling fans start spinning. Now, we live a stone’s throw away from Newark Liberty International, but the noise coming out of the laptop is far worse than any final approach I’ve heard here. And, to add insult to injury, the machine is all sluggish and needs to be restarted anyway. No, Windows machines are definitely not any more reliable than pen and paper.
But, the idea of going “straight to digital” with note-taking and idea capture is definitely intruiging. I’m totally hooked on my Palm keyboard. Being able to capture thoughts in digital form, manipulate them any way I want and take them online is fantastic. I would love to see a tool like a Mac pen tablet come to market. I think OneNote is clever, but isn’t quite as thought out as, say, The Brain. Notes are always part of an ongoing thought proceess, and I don’t think OneNote really interconnects related notes very well at all.
Ken,
I’ll grant you that taking notes digitally is helpful in some cases. That said, I’ve tried it, and it isn’t what it’s cracked up to be.
- Typing in a meeting SUCKS. You focus more on the computer and less on the presentation/meeting. You have a large wall in front of you because of the laptop screen, which gets clunky. It’s good for workgroups where needed, but why even meet in a room then? just use SubEthaEdit.
- Capturing charts SUCKS. This is true even with a tablet pc. If Microsoft has made one note do this easily, kudos to them. I think I still use the $2 piece of paper, and scan what i need as an attachment.
I dont think you can beat a whiteboard, paper and pen for having a productive meeting. And if you absolutely have to capture notes at a presentation type meeting into your computer, just load a text editor. Anything that distracts you from the actual presentation (such as linking interconnected thoughts) is bad.
I like my $0.04 piece of scratch paper (I don’t know where Ryan gets $2 from; do you work for the government?). But I do agree with you that when the means get intrusive it detracts from any profit they may provide. When thoughts start flowing or the dialogue is good but jumping about, you need to be able to capture as fast as possible and in a free space where you can doodle in the margins, add extra lines between already penned text, and so on. Computer input will always be a hindrance to this.
Tom:
$1 for a couple pads of paper
$79 cents for some pens
$21 cents sales tax
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$2
I suppose I couldve tried to factor it out to the individual piece of paper to be more accurate, but I have no idea how I would figure out Ink costs.
Based on the formatting on that last comment, I guess ken has Markdown going on.
Wasnt going for the boldness. Was just going for a textual line