Staffpad: a new class of notation app
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Staffpad: a new class of notation app
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Re: Staffpad: a new class of notation app
#2When I saw this my first thought was: We need something like that for Math / technical drawing.
I can understand that music is a good first application of this technology, but entering mathematical and engineering-related content through such an interface could be a huge deal as well.
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#3Context: This was a prominent part of Microsoft's "Windows 10 devices" event yesterday. MS used it to show off the capabilities of the new Surfaces.
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#4The idea of writing via a stylus and having it transformed not into a massive PNG, but perhaps a simple Unicode file is really growing on me.
I love pen and paper for jotting down ideas or using it to solve problems, but it seems this medium is slowly going to take over due to the benefits of having a software tool analyzing your writing, and thus providing tools/suggestions/etc. along the way.
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#5As far as I'm concerned, this is world-changing technology - a (seemingly?) easy to use, natural-looking, efficient data-entry mechanism that looks like something from the future.
That is an absolutely fantastic demo - I was hooked on the background-video within 3 seconds, and found myself wishing the MP3 would play when he was exporting it at the end.
Bravo.
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#6When I saw this my first thought was: We need something like that for Math / technical drawing. I can understand that music is a good first application of this technology, but entering mathematical and engineering-related content through such an interface could be a huge deal as well.
Flow charts and geometric shapes too.
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#7When I saw this my first thought was: We need something like that for Math / technical drawing. I can understand that music is a good first application of this technology, but entering mathematical and engineering-related content through such an interface could be a huge deal as well.
Man absolutely, right now I'm filling up a blocknote really fast working through problem sets, trying to minimise paper by writing small, fitting many problems on one page etc. Would be lovely to use a digital pad and save each problem set on its own page and have an easy eraser tool.
Anyone used the Khan Academy app to brush up on some math? They've got a very nice handwriting to text feature to allow easy entry of answers on a mobile device, a pen would work great in combination.
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#8Context: This was a prominent part of Microsoft's "Windows 10 devices" event yesterday. MS used it to show off the capabilities of the new Surfaces.
This amuses me, because they used the video at the top of the linked site in the presentation... which shows a Surface Pro 3 and pen (and was filmed ages ago).
SP3 is great, obviously, but it was in the middle of boasting about the _new_ pen and how great it was.
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#9Context: This was a prominent part of Microsoft's "Windows 10 devices" event yesterday. MS used it to show off the capabilities of the new Surfaces.
The software is actually a bit older, built for Windows 8 and previous Surface Pro.
Here's a blog post about the design of the app:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/developers/articles/week04ma...
Re: Staffpad: a new class of notation app
#10When I saw this my first thought was: We need something like that for Math / technical drawing. I can understand that music is a good first application of this technology, but entering mathematical and engineering-related content through such an interface could be a huge deal as well.
I think math would require more error correction than music. Musical notation is pretty easy to get right, whereas math has a much larger symbol lexicon.
Edit: Why the hell was this downmodded?