InkSeine - Comments Suggestions Thoughts Feedback

[Matt Faulkner]

Sobefore there is a mass of threadsabout InkSeine get started and now that it's available for downloadI thought I would start this thread.

Post all your comments, positive or negative, suggestions, questions and everything else in this thread so it's centralized and people can keep track of issues and questions - all in one place!!

I am glad you all are able to see what we have been playing with for the past few weeks!!!!

I am sure Ken would love to hear anything you have to say!Edited by: Matt Faulkner

[CSL]

First thing after my last class, I headed home and download Inkseine. Ohh.... I'm going to try it now!!!

[MarkLewis]

Couple of quick impressions without having spent any time looking at the tutorial....

1. It seems to me that having the personal or web search icon and then another icon with the actual search results is one icon too many. Can't you tell by the file type in the icon if it was a personal or websearch (Excel icon or IE icon)? I guess you could link to an online spreadsheet, and would want to know it was online?
2. It would be nice to have "move" as an option on the search result icon to easily make it drag-able somewhere else.

Mark.

[FeralBoy]

Only had a couple minutes to play so far...looking forward to working with it tonight! Definitely the most exciting tablet program in years!!!

[KenHinckley]

FYI, there's no "Move", but there is a "Select" option on the search / hyperlink icons. Pick that and then you can drag it. Not as direct as just dragging it though, I fully admit. We couldn't figure out a good way to make it immediately draggable but also still allow quick access to the different options on it... (Open, Cut / Copy, whatever).

As to the "one icon too many" I assume you are referring to the "search" icon that is inside of the search panel itself? The reason that is there is that depending on where you create the search, and the dimensions of your screen, in many cases the search panel may cover up the original search that you create in your notes. So there needed to be a way to access those optionsto quickly switch to Web search, etc. That is something people asked for in our very early realeases.

Ken

Firstly I would like so express the feeling that I very much appreciate the way you, Ken, go about this project. Respect! And it is fun for me to take part.

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<LI lang=en-US style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle">The nice: lnstallations works, Acer C204, Vista Ultimate, German language</LI>
<LI lang=en-US style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle">Searches German language</LI>
<LI lang=en-US style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle">flicks work on search results but not to the end (lets say on a column from A to Z, they go to T and miss the Z)</LI>
<LI lang=en-US style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle">There is very little real estate on an ACER C204 12 inches, 1024 x 768 pixels</LI>
<LI lang=en-US style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle">for that, larger, at best user customizable writing space were nice (legal a minimum for Germany, easy to print on standard paper)</LI>
<LI lang=en-US style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle">Scrolling for the same reason</LI>
<LI lang=en-US style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle">I had not indexed all files and have my data on a d:\partition.</LI>[/list]Is it necessary to reinstall Inkseine to find those files or do I just have to wait for the indexing to complete.
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<LI lang=en-US style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle">Is there a function attached to the little dotted field on the left side of the tool ring, next to the camera?</LI>
<LI lang=en-US style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle">l'd like to start with the same pen every time, would appreciate</LI>[/list]if the pen I used last staid for the next time I opened Inkseine.
Mine returns to light blue always. Customization could fit in the options menu nicely
Yours sincerely,
Carsten

[DaveTN]

eww. There is a big block cursor in the way on my GW CX2620. Gonna try it on My trusty M200 and see what happens.

David

[Hari]

Hi Ken,

Congratulations to you and your team for the outstanding job!

As an info, I can open the tutorial from within the program with no crash -maybe because it's the umpc version?
My son (10) took 30 seconds to grasp the logic of Inkseine, and had immediate fun with it. He is left-handed, and told me to thank you for having included the possibility to drag the tool arc to the left side of the screen -very handy for him.
Now I go back to have fun again.

Hari

[DaveTN]

Must be the CX because it works fine on my M200. I'll have to figure out what the cursor thing is though on the CX as it is pretty annoying.

David

[CSL]

Guys, please go through his tutorial. Wow, everything is in there and it is fun to learn!!

These are my impressions so far...
1. Virtually all tablets are made in 12" screen and even though it has enough space to write but I can't expand space between lines or even if I do the space of the page has little to space on. Printing for example can be wasteful because my tablet real estate is 12 inches and inkseine cannot efficiently manage the page well...

2. The Scroll bar is sooo coooollll!!!!! This is a welcome addition to tablet's bag of tricks.

3. Without a doubt, the search function is simply extremely convenient and what a joy to use.

4. However, it is not journal killer yet and Inkseine prototype have functions that should incorporate in all inking softwares which MUST be in Onenote and Journal for next release.

5. Writing is not as smooth and moving images are slower than Onenote....

6. Thank you Mr. Hinckley doing Tablet PC community a great service. For this weekend I will use it together with Journal to take notes and do homeworks and see what role this program will fit my lifestyle : )