Texas Walker: December 2007

Friday, December 07, 2007

My Two Cents

I wholeheartedly agree that UMPC's need to be able to ink. Carrying a wireless internet tablet around is great, but being able to write on it is critical. The better the inking is the more productive I am. I take a note and I don't have to worry about what to "do" with it later. It's already done.

But by far the best stuff I can do with my tablet is annotate drawings, pictures, documents etc in seconds. It cuts down on the confusion, is fast, and I can deliver the results via email instantly. I used to describe an issue at work with "The roof drain on bldg X is clogged. It's the second drain from the edge on the southeast corner nearest bldg Y". I would then hope they figured out what I was talking about and would fix the right one. Now, with my tablet, I snip the picture from google maps, annotate it as below and email it to work control.

Quick, easy and clear. It's also much faster and easier for me to markup Powerpoint pitches in ink, rather than type comments etc etc etc. It feels so much more natural. I don't think I could go back to a "normal" laptop. I'm an inkeneer for life.