How fast is Graffiti?

[Collin Condray]

I was thinking about buying a PDA with the Graffiti software (the Pilot)
and was wondering how fast you can write with it? For example is Graffiti
fast enough to take detailed notes in a lecture class?

Thank for the help.

Collin Condray email: ccon...@prairienet.org
home page: http://www.aristotle.net/~condray

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Collin Condray email: ccon...@prairienet.org
home page: http://www.aristotle.net/~condray

[Ron Hopkins-Lutz]

In article <54alks$d...@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, ccon...@staff.uiuc.edu (Collin Condray) wrote:
>I was thinking about buying a PDA with the Graffiti software (the Pilot)
>and was wondering how fast you can write with it? For example is Graffiti
>fast enough to take detailed notes in a lecture class?
>
>Thank for the help.
>
>Collin Condray email: ccon...@prairienet.org
> home page: http://www.aristotle.net/~condray
>

before I retired I used a Newton with Graffitti installed in case conferences
and training sessions. I did about 20-25 words per minute. My son used his at
college until the screen broke and had no trouble note taking with it.

[Bill Clark]

Collin Condray <ccon...@staff.uiuc.edu> wrote in article
<54alks$d...@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>...

> I was thinking about buying a PDA with the Graffiti software (the Pilot)
> and was wondering how fast you can write with it? For example is
Graffiti
> fast enough to take detailed notes in a lecture class?

I have not found it to be so; taking notes is (for me) a matter of
scrawling, thinking, and continuing to listen simultaneously. Perhaps one
could get good enough at Graffiti to do this, but I doubt I ever will.

[elliot]

Collin Condray <ccon...@staff.uiuc.edu> wrote in article
<54alks$d...@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>...
> I was thinking about buying a PDA with the Graffiti software (the Pilot)
> and was wondering how fast you can write with it? For example is
Graffiti
> fast enough to take detailed notes in a lecture class?
>

It depends largely on how well you write graffiti. I've been told that the
Pilot can recognize graffiti as fast as you can write it, but in my case I
start loosing recognition if I write very fast. I'm pretty sure that this
is because my graffitti gets sloppy as I hurry, and is still a bit marginal
even when I write slow (especially those blasted K's!). A friend of mine
used his for notes, but I don't know how detailed his notes are, and he
uses the pilot keyboard. He says a girl that works with him takes notes
during meetings using graffiti, but once again, I've never seen her notes.

Keep in mind, there is a maximum size for a single memo on the pilot. I
don't recall what it is, but if you take copius notes that may be a
problem.

[Matthew Cravit]

In article <54alks$d...@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, ccon...@staff.uiuc.edu writes:
> I was thinking about buying a PDA with the Graffiti software (the Pilot)
> and was wondering how fast you can write with it? For example is Graffiti
> fast enough to take detailed notes in a lecture class?

I find that now that I am comfortable with Graffiti, I can write with
it about as fast as I can write normally. Your mileage may vary, of
course, but I would say it is certainly fast enough for that. Your
biggest problem taking notes in class may be that the Pilot's memos
are limited in length (for reasons which are not clear to me) to 4,000
characters (about 3 typed double-spaced pages). There is a program for
the Pilot called SuperPad which extends this limit to 28 KB or so, but
(last I checked) only the first 4,000 characters will be transferred to
the desktop when the Pilot is synched. I don't know if anyone is working
on or has a conduit written to transfer bigger memos, however.

/MC

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