I'm rather surprised and unhappy that there is no open-source project for taking notes on a pen-enabled tablet. At least I couldn't find any. Does anyone know of anything? If not, I'm actually thinking of starting one myself.
What I had in mind:
- have a concept of individual "notebooks" consisting of "pages", each page is a potentially infinite 2D plane of paper onto which one can scribble notes using the tablet's pen (or a mouse)
- (optional feature) temporarily lock the pen drawing to straight lines on request (so that it's easy to draw diagrams)
- (optional feature) have a way to insert geometric primitives (rects, circles, diamonds, ...) anywhere in the page; label them free-hand
- (super bonus feature) character recognition turns freehand text into proper text; pages are searchable by any such text recognized
The closest app that I've seen a demo of having these features is MyScript's Nebo ( http://myscript.com/nebo/ ) but that's closed source, paid (although currently free for limited time on Windows Store) and doesn't work on tablets not having at least Core M (most cheap tablets, including mine, have an Atom).
What I had in mind:
- have a concept of individual "notebooks" consisting of "pages", each page is a potentially infinite 2D plane of paper onto which one can scribble notes using the tablet's pen (or a mouse)
- (optional feature) temporarily lock the pen drawing to straight lines on request (so that it's easy to draw diagrams)
- (optional feature) have a way to insert geometric primitives (rects, circles, diamonds, ...) anywhere in the page; label them free-hand
- (super bonus feature) character recognition turns freehand text into proper text; pages are searchable by any such text recognized
The closest app that I've seen a demo of having these features is MyScript's Nebo ( http://myscript.com/nebo/ ) but that's closed source, paid (although currently free for limited time on Windows Store) and doesn't work on tablets not having at least Core M (most cheap tablets, including mine, have an Atom).