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Boogie Board Sync 9.7 Review

I know I work in the digital industry, but I always carry a paper notebook around with me and absolutely love writing. Buying stationery and finding the perfect pen has the same happiness factor as jumping in crunching leaves. So when I saw the Boogie Board Sync 9.7 e-writer’s slogan “Say goodbye to paper”, I was sceptical.

  The first thing that you notice is that the Boogie Board Sync 9.7 is…

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Digital notetaking in the future will be useful for a wide variety of people, whether student, business professional, writer, designer or artist.

The advantages of a digital notetaker

Digital textbooks - infinitely lighter! Ability to put in a page where there was previously nothing Merging, organisation of notes Infinite paper Easy to insert pictures and other media into notes to aid understanding Collaboration and sharing Backup, security of files

Current devices though, are absolute crap. It'll be a few years before digital notetaking really takes off.

Ideas for the design of digital writers:

1)

Texture - It would be nice to replicate the feel of writing on paper, rather than a horrible slippery glass feeling. This affects handwriting.

2)

Pressure sensitivity - Need to get this perfect. Some tablets are already using these.

3)

Accuracy - Where the user places the pen should be where the "ink" comes out. The glass gap in current devices creates a parallax effect when viewing from a side angle - not acceptable.

4)

Speed - Should look like ink is actually flowing from the nib of the pen - not lagging behind it by a few millimetres

5)

Palm rejection - Current devices that state they feature palm rejection havn't got this quite right - users often end up pressing random buttons anyway. The Samsung Note actually has an options popup button exactly where your palm rests. Not good enough - needs to work the same way a piece of paper offers palm rejection!

6)

Interaction - Currently, there are loads of options menus and buttons. Surely there are more intuitive ways to interact when changing pen.

7)

In-document navigation - Better ways to quickly flip through a document - as if it were a physical notebook. 8)

Multiple documents - similarly, it should be incredibly easy to handle, open, find, and switch between multiple documents. 9)

Collaboration and sharing - there is huge potential for GoogleDocs style collaboration for annotating documents - could be especially useful for textbooks. Missed a lecture? Just check out what your classmates have written. 10)

I want this. Hopefully it will be easy to organize notes into folders, etc. I'll definitely be interested in playing with one when they're released in June.