Subject Sketch

[EDWARD BERRY]

JIM P.,

Go to GOOGLE, search for "Palm Boulevard"

If you do not find it on the links, search for "PDA SOFTWARE"

It will bring up 1,000's.

What you need is a low end graphics program that allows extra pages.

I can't remember what I got, but will try.

We have the PDA in conjunction with our SUPRA lockbox syatem so costs were not too bad.

full size keyboards are about $15 now.

It is a m505 color and cn be used in the sun.

good luck, ed

 

[John Wilson]

Originally posted by Keith@Aug 6 2003, 02:31 AM
I was wondering how everyone else does it.

I use the outside of the old file folder, flip it over for the second floor. When I put it to Apex, I'm not searcning around for sketch paper, it's right on the folder.


A few weeks ago I started using the Digital Pen for my notes and Sketches. When I'm done with the inspection, I e-mail the Digital Pen sketch back to my wife. She just opens the *.jpeg, and draws it with Apex. The sketch is already done when I get home. Plus my notes and sketch are saved as Word.Doc with no need for scanning.

Think of it like taking pictures. You take a picture of the house with your digital camera and transfer it to the PC when you get back to the office. The Digital Pen essentially takes a picture of everything you write, when I get back, I just stick the Pen in the cradle and all my notes and sketches go right to the digital worfile.

Cool toy....holds 40 pages of what every you write or draw.

It's kind of like sketching and note taking with a Tablet, but instead of sketching into the tablet, the sketch and notes go from the paper into the pen and are saved as *.jpegs.

Very neat stuff, and cheap too.

 

[xm39hnu]

Originally posted by EDWARD BERRY@Aug 7 2003, 10:03 AM
JIM P.,

Go to GOOGLE, search for "Palm Boulevard" <snipped the rest>

Thanks, Ed.
Mine's an m500. Looking for ways to digitize. Digital Pen looks promising.

 

[Stone]

Does the digital pen translate text into word?

 

[Farm Gal]

John:

being not impressed with my last three attempts at getting GOOD information from a website... could you describe a bit further how your 'digital pen' looks works operates in teh field? is this one of those "makes marks on paper as well as saves to a file" things?

thanks!

 

[Bill_FL]

Um, we are supposed to measure? Well, none of the RE agents I know do.

Just kidding.

JoAnn, please go back and read your post on the first page. Do you really measure to the tenth of an INCH?

 

[xm39hnu]

Originally posted by Michael Stone@Aug 7 2003, 10:45 AM
Does the digital pen translate text into word?

Don't know, never used one.
But I've been using devices claiming handwriting recognition for some time, and none of them are what you'd call "good". "Average for the neighborhood" is the best you're going to do, and it isn't adequate for consistent data entry.

You'd need handwriting recognition for such a device to be able to port your prose into Word.

 

[John Wilson]

Originally posted by Michael Stone@Aug 7 2003, 10:45 AM
Does the digital pen translate text into word?

Yes and No, you write on special paper. It looks like normal notebook paper but it has milions of microscopic dots that the pen reads "somehow"? I don't know how it works, but it works. You can then choose to have the file open as a"Note" in MS Word, or as an "E-Mail" or "To Do" in Outlook. The image of your writing, sketch, etc., is inserted on the page in Word as an image, or as an attachment to an e-mail.

Each note book page has "character" boxes at the bottom. What ever "Characters" you put in these boxes will be picked up as hand writing recognition. These are usfull for e-mails and appointments but do not need to be used.

For example: I can mark the page ( that I just drew my sketch on ) as an e-mail and "hand write" your e-mail address in the boxes provided at the bottom of the page. When I put the pen in the cradle, an Outlook message appears with your e-mail address already populated in the "to" line. I just hit send and off goes my sketch, or what ever I have on the page.

What ever you put on the paper, notes, sketches, doodles, scribbles, what ever, are saved as a *.jpeg just like it looks on the paper.

Franklin Covey also has a day planner which I bought, that works with the pen. I write my appointments in the day planner and they are populated automatically in Outlook.

This thing is way cool..........

 

[John Wilson]

Originally posted by Lee Ann@Aug 7 2003, 10:54 AM
John:

...is this one of those "makes marks on paper as well as saves to a file" things?

thanks!

It writes with ink just like a regular pen. If you want the image to be saved, you need to write on the special paper.

You can write on anything you want, but the image will only be saved when using the special paper. I've found the paper in an 80 sheet spiral binder for $4.95. It's awesome.

It's made by "Logitech" Do a Google on "Logitech Digital Pen" to read more.

Just did this sketch a minute ago....The image is reduced for the web page but the image saves as a 8.5 x 11.

Digital Pen Image Sample


[Got mine for $148.00

 

[Stone]

I may have to get one. Sounds great. It will probably be some time before any handwriting recognition technology can accurately translate my chicken scratches. It would be really cool, though, to go out and take notes and translate them into word for narrative appraisals. That would be an amazing time saver.

Still, it sounds really cool.