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I do mostly writing, and also diagramming (I'm a software developer) with the odd doodle and 3-d house.
I'm very picky about pens, very picky about paper.
I also definitely want to keep my notebooks.
I do not want all this stuff digitized. At all.
What I do digitize, I convert carefully, taking care to craft it as well for pixels as I did for paper.
Get all of the hype and exposure that a Kickstarter campaign gives without having to pay them their cut. Makes sense.
Do you really think the cancellation was premeditated? That's what your comment seems to imply.
I'm sure the PR company wasn't too thrilled at losing their 7% cut of the proceeds either.
But on the whole, it seems they have a really cool product and will do well. Good luck guys!
Do these people ever heard of screenshots? Taking photos of your screen in oblique orientations introduces horrible artifacts. Just don't do it!
I use notebooks, notepads, blanks sheets of paper, Japanese A5 and A5 notepads, and Pilot Frixion erasable pens. I do mostly writing, and also diagramming (I'm a software developer) with the odd doodle and 3-d house. I'm very picky about pens, very picky about paper. I also definitely want to keep my notebooks. I do not want all this stuff digitized. At all. What I do digitize, I convert carefully, taking care to cra…
Is there a HN thread where we can discuss this service and ask questions/debate the merits? I'd do it here but it feels inappropriate as the thread is more about Kickstarter and not the core product/service.
I was watched the video waiting for some big reveal, but was sort of let down by the offering. The site says more about the notebook's quality than the OCR/digitization, which is what I was more interested in.
What about confidentiality and privacy? Love it, but some of my notes are highly confidential. Obviously, I could use a separate notebook, but is there any thought towards privacy or assurance from these guys that no one is reading these notebooks when they're digitized? The video makes it look like a fairly manual process. Ordered one anyway to try it out.
But even worse; mail can and a few times gets lost, be it of the electronic or physical nature. And you don't have a copy in your sent folder in this case, and you can't reorder nor have someone resend another item.
I really, really like the idea of a digitizing/digized notebook, and I do agree that something that beats paper and pen has yet to be invented (can it even?). I would however preferred a device or solution that I could set up or use at home.
This brings up some ideas.
You are in a room that resembles an office.
In front of you, there is a screen displaying some orange toned website with a lot of text.
To your right, there is a shiny apple product. It might be a computer mouse.
To your left, there is a scanner, a notebook and a pen.
>_Is there a HN thread where we can discuss this service and ask questions/debate the merits? I'd do it here but it feels inappropriate as the thread is more about Kickstarter and not the core product/service.
Ditto. How about in this thread? I was watched the video waiting for some big reveal, but was sort of let down by the offering. The site says more about the notebook's quality than the OCR/digitization, which is what I was more interested in.
There are a LOT of different notebooks to choose from out there, and for anyone who cares enough to use this service in the first place, it's probably a pretty personal decision what notebook to use.
I checked out their webapp. "Try it out. No registration required." Then you click and it brings you to a login page. It took me a second to realize that login and password were actually pre-filled, but for a second I was pissed off that they lied to me :-)
The webapp is very pretty but slow. The thumbnails are nice, but scrolling through full-screen images is painfully slow. There doesn't appear to be any OCR going on, so no way to search, and no way to do post-scan annotations.... Isn't that the whole product?
Maybe they really just wanted to make notebook :-)
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Do you really think the cancellation was premeditated? That's what your comment seems to imply.
I don't think it was premeditated either, but after reading the article it seems it worked out great for them being able to get Mashable and Verge articles, collect 2,000 emails from Kickstarter backers, and then not have to pay Kickstarter a dime. I'm sure the PR company wasn't too thrilled at losing their 7% cut of the proceeds either. But on the whole, it seems they have a really cool product and will do well. Goo…
As an aside, has anyone else worked with Fundzinger? Sounds like an interesting business model.
Get all of the hype and exposure that a Kickstarter campaign gives without having to pay them their cut. Makes sense.
also, people that want things digitized and backed up for fear of losing them aren't going to be keen on taking months of work that MUST be digitized and MUST be backed up, and just dumping it in a mailbox and praying for everything to work while they go for 5 days without any access whatsoever to their supposed important material.
this project is retarded.