NotePals: Sharing and Synchronizing Handwritten Notes with Multimedia Documents

• Main Authors: LANDAY, James A., DAVIS, Richard C., CHEN, Victor, Huang, Jonathan, LEE, Rebecca B., LI, Francis, Lin, James, MORREY, Charles B., Schleimer, Ben
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1998
• Subjects: PDA; pen-based user interface; CSCW; informal user interfaces; gestures; digital ink; mobile computing; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/864; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/1863/viewcontent/NotePals_SharingSynchronizingHandwrittenNotes_1998.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

NotePals is an ink-based, collaborative note taking application that runs on personal digital assistants (PDAs). Meeting participants write notes in their own handwriting on a PDA. These notes are shared with other participants by synchronizing later with a shared note repository that can be viewed using a desktop-based web browser. NotePals is distinguished by its lightweight process, interface, and hardware. This demonstration illustrates the design of two different NotePals clients and our web-based note browser.