The joy of a blank page ready to hold my thoughts is tough to beat.

A blank page is also a great way to start your own list of ideas and projects. Many of the things I've shown in this series can be done with other Tablet PC software as well; I've simply been illustrating some of the ways that InkSeine has fallen into my patterns of daily use. However, I also strongly believe that what is easy with a tool strongly shapes how one uses it. I am certain that I do many more searches (both desktop and web searches) and include many more hyperlinks to web pages and documents in my notes than I ever did while using OneNote or Windows Journal in the past.

What would you like to do on your Tablet PC that is just too clumsy or difficult now? What are the biggest stumbling blocks that prevent you from doing more with it?

For example, the AlpineInker's virtual Tablet PC friend, and one and only official heckler, feralboy, left a very insightful comment on Day #10 of this series:

Just wrote a post on GottabeMobile lamenting the quirkiness of Ink Desktop, and it got me thinking...wouldn't it be cool if you could like institute a "transparent" mode for Ink Seine, so that you could use it on the destop too. Okay, that probably makes no sense, and stinks of desperation, but i really do want to be able to ink right on my desktop and have that ink behave (:

Perhaps this does stink of desperation, but so did "InkSeine" when I first started sketching out ideas for it in my notes, some 2 years ago now. Desperation, not necessity, is the mother of invention.

I happen to think the transparent layer idea is a really nice one, and perhaps something can be done along those lines. I'm not sure yet. That might make a great summer intern project, though. I'm currently trying to identify a PhD student who is both smart and crazy enough to attempt a truly  "inkseine" research project like this - perhaps something along these lines, or something else completely? - for a research internship this summer.

So there's one idea. What else could be done? Maybe the dual-display inkable ebook? Something else?

What is it that really gets you excited about the Tablet PC or UMPC devices, and working with pen and ink?

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