Thanks a lot for taking the time, you are rising very interesting points here. Do you actively use that Wacom tablet or a similar one for taking notes while in class? if so, could you elaborate a little more on your workflow? do you also annotate lecture notes on pdfs?
I'm considering getting myself one smartpen for note taking because that looks a little less geeky, and of course it is less bulky (I'm afraid about what others may think when I pull out my Mac and the Wacom tablet while they use pen and paper).
Writting on paper and scanning them when I get home does not seem to work for me. I currently have a ScanSnap scanner, but it is a bit of a hassle to go thorugh my notes... either a smartpen or a tablet looks more attractive... at the risk of overgeeking it all together... 😕
I wonder why on earth Evernote has not added ink note to the Mac version while Evernote for windows features it since 2008 at least... this and the lack of one other feature that I loved back when I used the windows version of Evernote -folder import-, is giving me a hard time when migrating from Windows to Mac.
I have not heard of Curio before. I may take a look at it... I don't think it can be as good as MindManager, but I don't mind giving it a shot once I figure out which way to go (tablet, smartpen, etc)...
Thanks again,
I use the Wacom Bamboo tablet to write notes and solve problems while at home, or studying alone. However I haven´t brought it with me to class and write notes with it yet, since as you said it would feel a bit weird. Although if it becomes to much of a hassle to scan my papers, I might as well just ignore it and write notes with it at class as well.
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Thinking about it, I think I will just use it either way. I only got 1 class that would require it next semester, and it doesn´t take more space if I use it in front of me, instead at the side of my MBA.
It works quite fine to write with it. At the start it didn´t go so well, since I couldn´t directly look at what I was writing. I couldn´t look at the screen and tablet at the same time. After a little while, it became quite easy and natural to write with it.
I haven´t annotated alot of pdf files, the times that I needed to do that I used skitch. Although if you want to annotate a multi paged pdf file, then perhaps another program would be better, I know Curio supports it, although perhaps there are better programs for that.
I was also thinking about smartpen, and if you want to be a little bit more discreet that might be the way to go
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I am curious how well using a smartpen works, since I haven´t found any place to test one.
Wondering why Evernote haven´t added ink-notes for Mac after all this time as well =/
I am still trying Curio out, so I am still not familiar with it. You can get a 15 day trial, and extend it by 60 days. Although if you do decide to buy it, I believe it might be better to take advantage of the 60 days extended trial and hope a upgrade comes out for it by that time. Since the upgrading license seems to be a bit expensive, and the new version seems to come out sometime in 2012.
Another thing is that the basic version doesn´t support ink-notes.
