![]() ![]() If you are someone who is used to pressing really hard with a pen or pencil, you need to lighten your touch, but a stylus makes for a smooth writing experience.īack in July I ordered four different stylus options to try out on my Nook Color. Handwriting on a tablet is more efficient if you have a stylus. Holding the Kindle Fire in one hand while using my finger or a stylus is considerably faster. The size of the Kindle Fire makes it too small for onscreen touch-typing like I’ve seen many iPad users attempt and too big to comfortably hold between two hands and rapidly tap letters. On the Kindle Fire, I can’t get anywhere close to that speed. I once timed myself at about 35 words per minute, which is slow on a computer keyboard, but it feels about as fast as I can go on a handheld device. I type fairly quickly on both Android phone and iPhone keyboards. The Problem with Keyboards on a 7-inch Tablet The net result after a bunch of experimenting is something I hope everyone will find useful in using handwriting for text input on a Kindle Fire tablet. The Kindle Fire works far better with a tablet stylus than the Nook Color ever did, which makes writing feel more natural. ![]() Some new handwriting apps are available now which improve on my original solution. While combining Handrite Note and Evernote was a great way to take my scribbles and make them searchable via the optical character recognition technology built into Evernote, it wasn’t an ideal solution. At that time, the Kindle Fire wasn’t out yet. The solution I arrived at was to use an app called Handrite Note, which is also available for the Kindle Fire. Back in July I was on a quest to find a workable handwriting solution for handwriting on my Nook Color tablet. Palm Graffiti was an awesome input solution years ago and more recently made a comeback on Android. ![]() More importantly, handwriting notes on a paper tablet keeps them trapped on paper unless I photograph or scan the page and import it into Evernote.īack in the days of Pocket PC and Palm devices, I used a pocket sized solution for this kind of note taking. Paper and pen aren’t a great solution for this because I have to turn on a light. Sometimes I wake up in the night and have an idea I want to jot down.
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