I took some time today to try and collect up the articles, musings, reactions, and discussions about InkSeine that have hit the web. My goodness, when I saw them all together I couldn't believe how much stuff there was! A lot of people have been pretty excited. Even in posts where people have put together critiques, those comments have been very constructive and helpful in our further thinking about how to improve the application.

The most helpful thread of InkSeine feedback has come from the GottaBeMobile forums. I've gotten a lot more stuff in my email, but the breadth of comments, occasional bug reports, and feature requests there are quite impressive! I've also been participating in that thread to help troubleshoot issues and to post answers to common questions we've been getting. So, thanks to all of you who have contributed. There were too many great comments on the GottaBeMobile thread to single them out individually in this post, but we really listen to all of them and will be doing our best to improve the application, even though some things, I'm sure, will prove to be infeasible, or take a while to get to.

By the way, I gathered all these snippets together in OneNote - its great for aggregating text from a lot of different web sites and keeping track of the links to the original source, and as we have said before, InkSeine doesn't do anything with text at this time. I love the software we've created, but I'm also not a complete idiot, and I'm happy to use other tools that are better suited to a task, such as putting together this post

General Information from Microsoft

• Research.microsoft.com feature article on InkSeine
  
  
• Soapbox video added:1 month ago views:8349
  
  
• Ken Hinckley's AlpineInker blog, featuring the Twelve Days of InkSeine
  
  
• Install InkSeine Here!
  
  

Reactions from the Blogosphere

• Microsoft Invents a Reason to Buy a Tablet: InkSeine is interesting because of the audaciousness of its pen and paper centricity, and the invention of an entire new language of gestures and menu conventions.
  
  
• All I can say is that using this program has been some of best times I have had on my Tablet PC in a long time...
  
  
• It is such a joy to use an application where the box was built around the pen rather than making the pen fit the box. As such, InkSeine is quickly becoming my go-to application for ink note-taking.
  
  
• The program has a fairly extensive feature list, full of very innovative and intuitive ideas (Ars Technica)
  
  
• InkSeine is an innovate note-taking, organizing, annotation application that was designed and build with the idea that you'll be commanding, entering data, and manipulating content with a tablet pen and ink.
  
  
• What do I think? In a word: brilliant! ... An insanely fun -- yeah fun -- way to brainstorm, with an interface that gets out of the way so you can get things done.
  
  
• Ink Blot Award, "Best Tablet PC Software That Microsoft Is Holding Hostage and Needs To Be Released Today"
  
  
• This ink notes saving programs is something between Journal and OneNote with one very useful new feature: the possibility to link files and web pages to your note. [with video]
  
  
• check out what all the growing excitement is about this new program [jkOnTheRun]
  
  
• I've also done a 10 minute demo of InkSeine, a brilliant application for tablet PCs [with video]
  
  
• The Personal Search is really impressive and it seems very fast! This is the first feature that I really like about InkSeine... sadly?
  
  
• You can search the Web, your e-mail or your Tablet PC right from the "pad of paper" using pen gestures.
  
  
• InkSeine's Floating Tool Ring rocks! ... I've been really interested in InkSeine's tools and interfaces, so I could not resist downloading it to get the Floating Tool Ring.
  
  
• If you're like me (and a number of InkSeine users) one of my favorite features of this great pen enabled application is the Floating Tool Ring
  
  
• I rather like the radial menu concept - I suspect it's one that will translate well into touch interfaces as well as working with pens.
  
  
• All the GottaBeMobile.com blog posts tagged with "InkSeine"
  
  
  

Podcasts discussing InkSeine

• Watching the buzz of people talking about inkseine ... its just amazing the amount of excitement and enthusiasm... honestly I haven't seen this much excitement over a software app in quite a while... [Excerpt, at approx 17:00]
  
  
• We talk about InkSeine, and practically beg Microsoft to release this amazing looking Ink Search tool
  
  
• random musings and insight on ... user experience, and InkSeine
  
  
• In Podcast #43, Sierra and I chat about InkSeine
  
  
  

Online Forums - Discussions, Feedback, Comments

• InkSeine - Comments Suggestions Thoughts Feedback (largest number of posts/feedback here)
  
  
• OQO Talk -Topic: InkSeine (Read 806 times)
  
  
• Try Microsoft's InkSeine beta ... It's pretty useful, if a bit different!
  
  
• [this is good] I have also been waiting on Inkseine and I am thrilled to find that it is all I expected it to be.
  
  
• I'll be adding touchscreen & start using inkseine for note taking as soon as prices are within my reach, as I had alot of fun using my fren's fujitsu hsdpa U1010 vista with said features..
  
  
• Microsoft Research has released Inkseine, an amazing new tablet PC application.
  
  
• This is a great app! I started using it on my tablet and the search features and creative user interface really showcase the tablet.
  
  
• Some handy softwares that I use: ... InkSeine v1.2b - insane inking!
  
  
• I really like their swipe-menu which makes it easy to select something
  
  
• It works pretty good. The scroll function is pretty cool. It's like the wheel on the ipod
  
  
  

Task Scenarios 

• Microsoft's Inkseine. It ranks way up there on the cool scale. Maybe it's just me,but I'm having trouble seeing a clinical application. I do admire its intuitive feel, speed, and ease of use.
  
  
• I can see this coming in to play with Healthcare very quickly with taking notes and organizing information!
  
  
• InkSeine; an investigational upgrade to the digital inking experience that builds upon and improves navigational and data input functionality. [for clinicians]
  
  
• Very Cool Tablet PC Application From Microsoft Research [eNurse]
  
  
• Software for the mobile mapping lab tablets: InkSeine - described as Windows Journal on crack - great for inking.
  
  
• Students and teachers will likely find InkSeine's many features save time with new results
  
  
• tablet recommendations for school : What software and tasks do you intend to run? Onenote, office, WOW, Inkseine
  
  

Drooling with Anticipation

• It takes what I love of OneNote and adds another dimension to it!
  
  
• ">this needs to get out of research and onto Tablet PCs everywhere
  
  
• Inkseine - a wonderful tool
  
  
• if you're a happy tabletter, be ready for a superb new experience :)
  
  
• Here is a collection of links* relating to InkSeine, for anyone like me who's dying to get their hands on it
  
  
• It's one of the only products around that has been designed for inking and not just a keyboard-and-mouse based product that has inking support
  
  
• Here's an interesting project that leverages ink right to search in a web service kind of way. It's this kind of stuff that really makes you wonder about the future of search
  
  
• Microsoft InkSeine - the future of tablet computing
  
  
• Search on a Tablet Made Easy [MIT Technology Review Editor's Blog]
  
  
  

I wish I had a Tablet PC.

• Microsoft isn't innovative, they just copy Apple and others... Except. youknow, they're basically the only ones working with this ink/tablet PC stuff... So perhapsthey do innovate? This is way cool! I need a tablet PC!
  
  
• Now up pops InkSeine, what looks like the basis of the killer app for the Tablet.
  
  
• This is just too cool. Seriously. This is the first ever time in my life where I thought, hey, a tablet PC can actually be useful!
  
  
• Its features like this that make me want to get a tablet pc
  
  
• Very cool stuff! Makes me want a tablet PC!
  
  
• Check out this cool new Microsoft research product called ‘InkSeine'.
  
  
  

InkSeine Heard ‘round the World!

• ce concept démontre ce que peut être un vrai logiciel optimisé ink et dépasse de très loin tout ce que vous pouviez imaginer en terme d'intéraction stylet ... utilisation spéciale et intuitive du stylet au sein d'un environnement de travail
  
  
• innovatieve notitieprogramma InkSeine.
  
  
• Ziemlich cool.
  
  
• Microsoft Inkseine est disponible en téléchargement chez Microsoft Research
  
  
• PopFly e InkSeine: Un filmato che parla di due prodotti Microsoft che reputo davvero innovativi.
  
  
• Das ganze ist zwar für einen Tablet gedacht, jedoch sieht es echt cool aus
  
  
• InkSeine permet - quasi simultanément - de prendre des notes électroniques, de lancer des recherches sur des mots et expressions, et d'attacher les informations retrouvées au document en cours de création.
  
  

What do I do with this Strange Application?

• Guys, as you all know, it is so fun to use inkseine!... But so far, even though it is only less than a day pass, I still couldn't find how it fits to my workflow or funflow.
  
  
• I like the interface, but I'm not exactly sure what I'd use it for. I'd still rather use Windows Journal for ink blog posts. It's fun to use so I suggest you try it out.
  
  
• Can someone walk me through what, exactly, InkSeine is, and how it's different from the other inking programs out there?
  
  
  

Things that need work, bugs, confusions

• Although InkSeine is a fantastic ink note-taking application, it's worth noting that InkSeine is not perfect and does have its limitations.
  
  
• It looks great, but the "notebook metaphor" isn't for me
  
  
• the first twenty minutes shows that it will be a very useful info search and aggregation tool locally and on the web but with a not insignificant learning curve. So far, so good.
  
  
• I don't like the fact that I cannot increase the length of my page if I needed more space to write when I reached the bottom of the page.
  
  
• The biggest gripe I have that it's very Microsoft centered, but coming from MS Research I can't blame them.
  
  

Additional coverage of creative tablet PC fun...

• Are You an Inveterate Doodler? ... Ken's even come up with a unique way of titling his doodles by letting the recognizer title it, something he calls a "Tablet PC-hallucinated title". What a great idea!
  
  
• Miss Those Buttons On Your Pen? Well, Ken Hinckley has come up with an interesting, and quite amusing, solution