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Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine

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Re: Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine

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Post by TheOnlyRew »

reaganing wrote: post #34

Not really a fan of Moleskine's notebooks, but this is interesting. But, Evernote's Page Camera feature that was added to the iOS app does seem to work just fine with other paper (I tested Field Notes w/ graph paper). It's just 'optimized' for the paper in these notebooks, whatever that means.

I love Moleskine, but that just made me all the more sceptical about the "optimized" dotted paper pattern. That just screams gimmick to me, especially looking at the picture provided.

If it does make a significant usability difference, that would be pretty cool and I'd love to get some insight into why dotted lines would be simpler for image processing software to work with than straight lines, but... For now, I'm gonna keep on trying to bury myself with post-it notes...

Re: Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine

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Post by naner »

king_magic wrote: post #4

I think this is really quite neat. I used to be a heavy user of Evernote, but I found it difficult to reconcile my handwritten notes (90% of my notes at work) with what I'd have in Evernote. As a result, I stopped using Evernote. I always hoped I'd be able to find a good way to record my notes digitally (e.g., iPad + stylus), but at the end of the day, taking notes with pen & paper always wins for me. This could very…

What's your opinion of Livescribe?

I'm also a paper note taker but I don't see myself moving to Livescribe (though I haven't tried it) or taking photos of pages in Evernote. I'm pretty organized, though, so I'm not dying to have everything digitized.

Re: Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine

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Post by zem »

reaganing wrote: post #34

Not really a fan of Moleskine's notebooks, but this is interesting. But, Evernote's Page Camera feature that was added to the iOS app does seem to work just fine with other paper (I tested Field Notes w/ graph paper). It's just 'optimized' for the paper in these notebooks, whatever that means.

for one, the paper has alignment dots that evernote uses to square the image perfectly even if the camera is held askew.

Re: Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine

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Post by alecdibble »

reaganing wrote: post #34

Not really a fan of Moleskine's notebooks, but this is interesting. But, Evernote's Page Camera feature that was added to the iOS app does seem to work just fine with other paper (I tested Field Notes w/ graph paper). It's just 'optimized' for the paper in these notebooks, whatever that means.

The grids or lines on the notebook are dotted. Their algorithm knows the geometry of those dots ahead of time, so it can exploit that fact to figure what the orientation is suppose to be.

Re: Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine

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Post by dddrh »

iamben wrote: post #40

Gutted this isn't on Android. Why are so many people still launching apps/competitions/products for iOS only? I could understand it a few years back, but doing it today just cuts your market in half.

This [1] is from their user guide for the notebook.

Device Support

Page Camera is currently available only on iOS (iPhone / iPad), but will be added to Android and other mobile platforms in the future. iPhone 3Gs, iPad 2, and earlier models are not optimal for Page Camera due to absence of flash and low camera resolution.

EDIT: Formatting.

[1]: http://evernote.com/getting_started/moleskine/#5

Re: Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine

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Post by fsniper »

How is this different from taking notes on any physical paper and take a photo of it? My Galaxy SII camera takes real good pictures of papers. They are readable, good focused and sharp.

I just see a marketing partnering stunt here?? Am I missing something?

Re: Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine

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Post by andrewcamel »

The feature I would really like to see would be a printed title Box in the moleskin notebook, which would allow me to title my written work and then pass that title into Evernote when it's scanned. You could obviously also extrapolate this feature out to tags or other pieces of metadata to be stored in the digital Evernote document.

Just to clarify: this would really be made for those who have awful handwriting (like me), so only a small part of your page would need to be written carefully and eventually digitized to be searchable.

Re: Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine

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Post by shpoonj »

bradgessler wrote: post #21

So far, my experience with Evernote has been watching them make Skitch almost unusable. The app always forgets my Skitch credentials, keeps displaying the startup screen even when I check "Do not show this to me again", and tries to force me into an Evernote account. At one point they changed Skitch to display 10 different things I could do after an upload. They made it a real mess. I assume Evernote's products are o…

They're a tech company trying to sell you a notebook with stickers for $30 in an age where paper offers no advantage and, quite frankly, unacceptable due to the environmental ramifications.

Their products aren't overly complicated; they're utterly senseless.

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