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  • microkorg0

    Looks really nice but the price IS steep and there's one major flaw .. a feature they don't have that their competitors do ...

    .. handwriting recognition.

    As far as I can tell the thing doesn't recognise your handwriting. This means that none of the text content is searchable.
    Yes I know this is meant to be like a paper book and to find shit in your old sketchbooks you'd have to rifle through them all, but come on, this is a DIGITAL technology.

    To me, one of the major benefits of having something like this is that your content is searchable.

    I backed the Equil Smartpen 2 on Kickstarter a few years ago and thought that it was going to change my life when it came.
    It came and I was impressed. I could write on any pad or piece of paper and it would digitise it, recognise handwriting and register it as searchable content then sync with my iphone, ipad or PC next time they were together. How good does that sound? Brilliant eh?
    It was for a few days, maybe a week. Then I forgot to keep taking both a pad, the pen and the attachment I had to put onto pads or paper. It just became a hassle.

    For something to replace pen and paper it truly has to be as good as pen and paper but also has to offer something more.
    To me, that is handwriting recognition and searchability.

    • Given I can only barely read my own writing sometimes, I'd forgive this lack of functionality (you are, of course, right :)detritus
    • You'd be surprised at how decent the Equil was at recognising scrawl handwriting.microkorg

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