Got a sad email from Rob today. Actually, the email was pretty straightforward and stoic, but the news was said (and I could tell he was crying when he pasted the link). Anyway, at the end of the year, Agilix is discontinuing their all-encompassing note and scheduling application for Tablet PCs, GoBinder. Per their website: [...]
One of the biggest requests folks have had when making the changeover from GoBinder to OneNote was how to port all those notes. Prior to today, the only way was to “print” them, one by one, using the OneNote 2007 printer driver. I know of this pain quite well, because I was a huge GoBinder [...]
LifeHacker.com has a great roundup of notetaking articles, many of which can be directly applied to using a tablet pc. So, whether you use OneNote, Journal, EverNote, or GoBinder to take notes on your Tablet PC / Ultra-Mobile PC, take a look at these tips. They are quite good. Tips For Handwritten Shorthand Geek to [...]
If you have been following Tablet PCs for any length of time, you have surely heard of Agilix. Agilix was an early stand-out in the Tablet PC space with their GoBinder application, development on FranklinCovey’s Plan Plus for Windows XP, and their Infinotes SDK. If you know what you are looking for, you will see [...]
Last week, I posted a link to BlackBoards blog where Melissa wrote about Tablet PCs and education. In her article, Melissa made reference to a Tablet PC / Education research project that Agilix, BlackBoard, Intel, and CUNY participated in with the Center for Digital Education. Melissa emailed a pdf of the report to me if you are interested in reading [...]
Melissa Chotiner contributes to a Blackboard blog and wrote a really good article on Tablet PCs and education. In the article, she points to a research project they participated in, interviews Brad Baldwin, of Agilix , and also points to StudentTabletPC.com . She pulls some really good quotes from one of Tracy’s articles about how she integrates a tablet [...]
On Friday, I wrote about some troubling issues regarding the performance and bug issues that many users have been experiencing since upgrading to GoBinder 2006. Agilix has been steadily at work at trying to address these issues and have released a new build (2117). If you use GoBinder 2006, go to Help, Check For Updates and you [...]
I received the following email from a friend of mine who uses Franklin Covey’s Plan Plus for Windows and recently ““upgraded†from version 4.0 to 5.0. Plan Plus uses the same foundation system as GoBinder 2006. What I’ve been reading on www.TabletPCBuzz.com , Agilix’s support forum, and this email really has me concerned. Have you played [...]
If you remember my post from last week regarding the Ultra Mobile PC being demoed at the Blackboard Conference, I said that several of the apps mentioned to be built to run on the UMPC included Blackboard Backpack and GoBinder 2006. Now that there is a list of ISVs who have stated that they will support the UMPC platform [...]
I just received this notice from Agilix regarding potential data corruption issues for folks who had done beta testing for GoBinder 2006. If you used a beta version of GoBinder 2006, please read the following: There were numerous defects fixed during the beta period, some of these bugs probably wrote bad or incorrect data into [...]
I’ve been told from a very reliable source that Microsoft unoffically showed the origami pc yesterday at BlackBoard World to a select 50 customers of Blackboard – among the software to be included from day one: GoBinder and Backpack. He also confirmed that they will announce it on March 9 with Intel. Considering GoBinder and [...]
Well, this comes as a surprise. According to Agilix’s press release, GoBinder 2006 has been officially released. I’ve checked their beta support page and there is no announcement there, although it does appear on their homepage. Checkout our InkShow for a good overview of GoBinder 2006. Download the new version (build 2029) here . If you are a [...]
Watch our InkShow of Agilix GoBinder 2006 We cover new UI improvements, categories, tabs, folders, the improved ink interface, and much more in the beta version of GoBinder 2006. Watch the InkShow Download GoBinder 2006 beta Visit the Beta support site
I’ve officially switched over from GoBinder to OneNote 12 beta for my free form notetaking and storage of printed documents. In addition, when I need to do free form notetaking within MindManager, I create a hyperlink from a topic to the OneNote section where I am storing that note. I’ve printed all of my GoBinder [...]
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