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Title: notes w/ drawings?
Post by: shadowkwarrior on January 28, 2004, 01:55:49 am

is there a program that will allow me to take notes with the thumb board for text and the stylus for diagrams? because hancomword wont let me create them on the fly and drawpad wont let me type blocks of text, and it gets really annoying in physics when i have notes that include diagrams  

Title: notes w/ drawings?
Post by: Anonymous on January 28, 2004, 06:22:22 am

Hi shadowkwarrior,

I\'ve had a think about your problem and looked at various applications you could use.

For \'rich\' text input you could use:
Hancom Word, Darkstar, Htmlatzaurus, ZAntiword.

For creating diagrams you could use:
Petit Peinture, Pocket Design 3, QPaint, qpPhoto.

There are a few commercial applications that might interest you, including Hancom Paint, tkcEditor, and IQnotes.

If I was in a lecture theatre or classroom taking notes, I would run a drawing application (e.g. Petit Peinture) and a text editor (e.g. Hancom Word) at the same time. Multi-tasking is the beauty of running Linux on a PDA. Then, as I finish each diagram in Petit Peinture, it is named fig1.png, fig2.png, fig3.png, and so on. Then one puts a reference to the figure number in the document being written in Hancom Word.

Example:
Blah blah blah
fig1
More boring lecture
Blah blah blah

Please note that Hancom Word has an image import feature, so you can place the images you\'ve created via a drawing program into the text you\'re writing. Another thing that you could do, is to write your notes in HTML (via one of the HTML editors mentioned). Still using the same drawing program to create the pictures, you could insert the picture locations into the HTML code. This HTML code could be viewed as local files with Opera, or you could run a slim web server like Boa, and then view http://localhost/lectures/1/index.htm (http://localhost/lectures/1/index.htm)  for each lecture you\'re working on.

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Edo.

Title: notes w/ drawings?
Post by: Anonymous on January 29, 2004, 06:30:11 pm

ah, ya i guess i\'ll stick with hancom word and paint app running in background then, thanks, reason i asked was mobile word supported sketches and i was a tad jealous when my friend w/ a ppc started drawing a diagram w/o switching apps :-p

Title: notes w/ drawings?
Post by: shadowkwarrior on January 29, 2004, 06:30:47 pm

oops, wasnt logged in

Title: notes w/ drawings?
Post by: shadowkwarrior on February 02, 2004, 04:01:16 pm

is there a program for drawing that will let me scroll down indefinately? cause one page length usually isnt enough.

Title: notes w/ drawings?
Post by: bluedevils on February 02, 2004, 04:39:06 pm

I would recommend iqnotes as you can attach your drawing to the text notes easily.  Switching between text and drawing isn\'t as easy though.

I take that back.  Edo\'s answer seems good