dvjames wrote:
> I don't want to speak too soon about this, but I think that ON
> could be what I think of as a killer ap. Some software comes out
> and it just changes the way people use computers. Think about
> Visicalc. Think about Microsoft Word (I started on a Mac and I
> think I still have a .5 BETA around here somewhere). People will be
> buying computers just to use this. If I was Microsoft I would just
> give this away.
LOL
But I think that so far there really has not been enough to promote ON.
It's a "killer app", for sure, but who knows it?
In our whole faculty so far no one is using ON - only because the
colleagues don't know it and have no imagination on how productive one
can be when using this fine piece of software.
> I know what I'm talking about on this point. I bought a Motion
> Tablet (about 3 pounds) to use in meetings just to take notes and
> to test how I felt about ON and computing WITHOUT a keyboard.
Yes, ON is an ideal instrument for a TabletPC.
And the good thing is that it's not just a TabletPC app but most useful
on any desktop too.
>Final
> answer: It is definitely worth it. Tapping (noise) on keys in a
> meeting is sometimes verboten and at the least somewhat distracting
> (I type between 80-100 WPM so if I chose to type, I could).
It's not only the noise of the keys. The major thing is the atmosphere
in a meeting room where a third of the participants are fumbling around
with their notebooks. By the time using laptops during our faculty
conferences has become a NoNo - not officially "verboten" but everyone
feels that he is doing something wrong when opening his laptop.
Totally different with a TabletPC. It's not disturbing at all, just like
traditionally taking notes on paper.
> Penning definately captures what is being said faster (for me)
> because it works with a different part of my brain. I also do my
> brainstorming with the pen. Plus, the looks I get when I whip out a
> computer without a keyboard in meetings is pretty cool too (OK I'm
> a geek - ).
LOL
Yes, at first colleagues are really curious when they first see me
opening the portfolio bag of my good old HP/COMPAQ tc1100 ( I always
leave the keyboard in the office when going to a meeting. And sometimes
the really fascinating when I quote from an old papers or the minutes of
a previous meeting. ;-) ;-).
Still I wonder why so far no one followed my "exotic" way.
Rainald
