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by lstamour 4617 days ago
Fully admitting I've only read the website's summary bullets: I disagree. The point to me is not as much dissemination of material but thinking through materials in a language other than left to right words or symbols. It harkens back to renaissance books in which words and scribbles mixed together in what was, for the times, a coherent mixture. We're talking note-taking for instruction, tools to think about and optimize problem solving ... tools for thinking rather than sharing, even if the source appears to be sharing or instruction right now. That may not be true in the future... I, for one, am sick of OneNote being "the best thing since lined paper" and living otherwise with notepad.exe alternatives. What, precisely, will bring the tablet from its consumption roots into a true work/thinking device? There's a lot of room for more visual note-taking apps, and eventually that will be the new low-hanging fruit of computer vision and natural language input. Someday, for some tasks, at least.