Microsoft InkSeine

The goal of the InkSeine project is to completely rethink the user interface for tablet computers. Some people have described InkSeine as "Windows Journal on steroids." But InkSeine goes well beyond Windows Journal, particularly in its features to search from ink and to easily drag hyperlinks for documents and web pages into your notes.

Many people ask us how InkSeine relates to Microsoft OneNote. InkSeine is complementary to OneNote. OneNote is a great tool with many useful features that you will not find in InkSeine. But InkSeine's user interface is like nothing you have ever used with your pen before. It takes inking on your Tablet PC to a new level.

We've jettisoned pull-down menus and other trappings of the traditional mouse-and-keyboard interface in favor of mechanisms that are tailored to be fast and predictable when you are using a pen. This enables the tool to fade into the background so that your can really focus on your primary task: capturing your ideas, sketches, and creative thoughts.

To make it easier to access all of the information on your device, InkSeine has a great search experience integrated with inking. This offers you a really slick way to get at all your stuff without having to deal with the file system or switch to a separate "search application."

When your searches turn up stuff you need, you can just drag any image, document, email, or web page into your notes. It becomes a small round icon that lets you get at the document in a fraction of a second whenever you need it again. If you drag an image out of search results from your local hard disk, the image is imported directly into your notes so that you can start marking it up. It's a great way to bring together all the stuff that you need for your projects, and sure beats the heck out of trying to tap through folders with a pen.

InkSeine was designed to offer a complete rethinking of what user interfaces should be for the digital pen and ink experience.

Requirements:

￭ .NET Framework ￭ InkSeine requires Office 2003 or Office 2007 to use all its cool features. Outlook (not Outlook Express) is required to search emails or link to them from InkSeine. ￭ Windows Vista Search / Windows Desktop Search (on XP) is also a requirement for the install.

Limitations:

￭ No text support ￭ No keyboard shortcuts ￭ No scrolling, zooming, or "Insert Space" command. ￭ No equivalent of a "Print to OneNote" driver for InkSeine ￭ Undo within a page only. ￭ InkSeine has not been tested on non-English systems ￭ Slow performance in some cases ￭ Limited OneNote integration ￭ Limited interoperation with non-Microsoft products ￭ No custom search filters