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Twelve Days of InkSeine

I thought it would be fun to provide an illustrated tour of some of the ways that I use InkSeine on my Tablet PC. So, without further ado, here is the first installment of "Twelve Days of InkSeine."

Day #1: Use InkSeine to Make a Project Binder

I've become quite dependent on InkSeine in my daily work. I use it to keep track of all my different projects that I am working on. I keep everything that I need related to a project on a page of my notebook. Sometimes one page suffices. For bigger projects, I might have a note with several pages of links, searches, and clippings as I work through different tasks and ideas.

On the page shown below, I've collected links to all the documents that a student named Gonzalo and I used when we were writing a journal article. You can see a search for his name at the top of the page. Whenever I return to this project, I open that search to see all of our recent email correspondence back and forth with one quick flick of my pen. I don't even have to switch to Outlook. You can also see links to various drafts of our article, which I crossed off as we revised it.

Gonzalo and I wrote about the trend for mobile devices to include sensors such as accelerometers (tilt sensors). The iPhone craze was just starting at that point, and I did a Web Search to dig up some information about the iPhone's sensors. I captured a few snippets of the device that I came across in my searches.

So that's how I use InkSeine to gather together and annotate all of the stuff that I need to refer to while I'm working on a project.

Next Post: Day #2: Web Surfing

Day #3: Sketching Designs

Day #4: Track Progress

Day #5: Review Documents

Day #6: Hunt and Gather (and Doodle!)

Day #7: Give an Informal Presentation

Day #8: Collaborate on my Big Honkin' Wacom Cintiq Tablet

Day #9: Messy Desk - with Search!

Day #10: Scrapbook Fun!

Day #11: Dish out a Little UMPC Love

Day #12: Tabula Rasa

...and on Day #13? I use OneNote!

 


Posted 01-22-2008 5:06 AM by Ken Hinckley
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GottaBeMobile wrote GBM InkShow: InkSeine
on 01-22-2008 9:09 AM
Twelve Days of InkSeine, Day #2: Web Surfing - The AlpineInker wrote Twelve Days of InkSeine, Day #2: Web Surfing - The AlpineInker
on 01-24-2008 3:00 AM

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feralboy wrote re: Twelve Days of InkSeine
on 01-25-2008 3:21 AM

Good stuff! Love the 12-days series, because it makes it clear how flexible the tool is. I'm currently using mindmapper for my brainstorming, but despite how good it is, I still feel kind of boxed in. I love the creative freedom of Inkseine and look forward (uh, like you didn't already know this) to giving it a whirl.

The AlpineInker wrote Twelve Days of InkSeine, Day #9: Messy Desk - with Search!
on 01-30-2008 9:14 PM

If you're like me, you probably have a messy desk. My desk piles up with papers that I expect to

Random Tangent wrote Random Tangent
on 02-03-2008 2:30 AM

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The AlpineInker wrote ...and on Day #13? I use OneNote!
on 02-06-2008 1:18 AM

It would be criminal of me to do this 12-day series without out also confessing that, like many Tablet

The AlpineInker wrote InkSeine-ity throughout the Blogosphere
on 02-29-2008 3:09 PM

I took some time today to try and collect up the articles, musings, reactions, and discussions about

http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/alpineinker/archive/2008/01/22/twelve-days-of-inkseine.aspx wrote http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/alpineinker/archive/2008/01/22/twelve-days-of-inkseine.aspx
on 03-20-2008 1:53 AM
The AlpineInker wrote InkSeine Update, InkSeine Featured on OfficeLabs.com!
on 04-28-2008 1:27 PM

InkSeine is one of the projects featured on the new Microsoft Office Labs web site . There are some cool

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