[thehooplehead]

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.

[zaroth]

Why would an scanning service even get into the notebook business?

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 :-)

[aestra]

> Why would an scanning service even get into the notebook business?

Because they are producing special notebooks that work with their business model, that have the proper bindings so they can easily get the pages out of them. For example, They probably even have a machine that does it for them, or special tools. Furthermore, it allows the cost to be consistent, otherwise they would have to charge per page and the user might not be aware of how many pages are in their notebook, so they might not know the cost ahead of time. I have a notebook at home and I can't even fathom a guess as to how many pages it is, I am sure that the sticker or whatever was on it when I bought it told me, but that is long gone. It also allows them to only process orders that are cost effective for them - minimum page requirements, consistent cost, pages that are optimal for their scanners, they know exactly what is going to come in, known cost of shipping so they can know exactly the amount of postage they have to pay, etc.

[tg3]

It's probably pretty difficult to do OCR/digitization for a bunch of different types of notebooks efficiently, but I totally agree. I personally use Field Notes because of their soft backs and small form factor, but I would love to get them digitized and put in my Dropbox.

Instead they're just sitting in a drawer. I don't want to have to use Mod Notebooks just to keep paper notes forever.

[meowface]

I was hoping for a pen that simultaneously puts ink on the page and also tracks exactly what you write/draw and uploads it every minute or so. It'd probably be too difficult to do that with a tactile sensor, so perhaps a tiny camera could be used instead?

I assume neither of those are very practical at the moment, otherwise a company would've tried it already.

[OverlordXenu]

They do exist ( http://www.livescribe.com/en-us/smartpen/ ) but I have no idea if they're any good. You have to use their pen and their paper… I like my Field Notes and Lamy.

[joosters]

Do they bother to inform us how many pages each notebook contains? 10? 100? Seems pretty fundamental to me.

[hiharryhere]

Had a dig around their twitter account, apparently 60 pages

I agree, pretty fundamental bit of info to omit

https://twitter.com/modnotebooks/status/445713003254513664