What input method for text do you use? and are you a guy or a gal?

[Cortex]

It occurred to me that women may have handwritting that is better recognized by transcriber. I personally use Letter Recognizer because I find transcriber (Calligrapher) too frustrating.

[Cortex]

It occurred to me that women may have handwritting that is better recognized by transcriber. I personally use Letter Recognizer because I find transcriber (Calligrapher) too frustrating.

[Ekkie Tepsupornchai]

Interesting thought.

Hardly a scientific experiment, but back in the day when both me and a close girlfriend of mine bought a Palm, I adapted fairly quickly to Graffiti. She, on the other hand, didn't have the patience to learn and always used the on-screen keyboard since there was ZERO learning curve involved.

While I definitely know one or two female geeks who'll go toe-to-toe with me, most of my female friends have very little tolerance for any learning curve associated with technology. I think most all the input methods available have a learning curve involved except for the on-screen keyboard itself.

As for myself, I'm in the "Fancy Schmancy" category with FITALY.

[dean_shan]

I use the onscreen keyboard because it is faster (for me) to do small messages and urls. I will use transcriber to show people that think I have bad hand writing that if a computer can reconize it then my writing is not that bad. :wink:

[pocketpcdude1024]

Just a question- what choice does an illiterate gal have if they can barely click the radio button? :lol:

BTW, I come from the Land of the Palms and I use Block Recognizer. I find I get better results if I look at the screen only after I have finished writing. :?

[Kati Compton]

I'm about 50/50 on transcriber and the onscreen keyboard.

[RickP in AZ]

I'm about 65% Calligrapher/Transcriber and about 35% Fitaly. But it depends on posture, mood, and the actual content of what I am writing. I also tend to use the Typango full screen keyboard when the mood strikes.

Actually I guess that I tend to use HWR (Calligrapher/Transcriber) more than just 65%. I am sufficiently skilled at Fitaly after 2 months of use but I still find that if I'm writing longer strings of text (more then 2 paragraphs) I can keep the creative flow going far better with HWR.

Of course I'm left handed/right-brained (or no brained if you ask the Missus) so the natural nature of handwrighting recognition works with the way I think. (Or at least what passes for thinking in this pulp of gray matter squashed into my coconut.)

[vincentsiaw]

i always use the on screen keyboard, as my writting is to bad, trancriber can't recognize most of my writting :cry:

[hiroProtagonist]

I'm probably using 70% fitaly and 30% CalliGrapher right now (actually I'm using a keyboard RIGHT NOW :roll: ) I really like calligrapher for editing, 'cause I can do so much with penCommander, I just write a "C" and circle it and viola (or as I saw it last week "walla") I just copied, now "V"_circle...paste...very cool 8).

Actually I've found that if I start at the today screen, activate calligrapher by tapping the icon in the lower right corner, launch whatever app I'm gonna use, and then switch to fitaly, I can type with fitaly but cgr is still running in the background. I can switch back and forth either writing or tapping the keyboard. It's not perfect 'cause you can "slide" for capitals and it's a little more time consuming to highlight and drag sliders, but I can use pencommander. :P

An interesting thing I noticed about cgr is that it recognizes cursive much better than print (bummer for me since I stopped writing cursive in about 6th grade) I suppose that this is bucause it is forced to recognize the entire word rather than interpret a bunch of individual cryptic (in my case) letters. So I'm kinda retraining myself to write cursive, but I soon loose patience and...up comes fitaly.

[edit] I just thought of something else cool about pencommander. It lets you copy and paste anywhere (well anywhere I've tried), so even if there
s no edit menu to access 'cut', or 'copy', if you have those commands in pc, they'll work..

[Rirath]

Almost always on-screen keyboard. Despite my best efforts, Trans/Call won't read my handwriting. :x
And Ekkie, you make a good point abuot the learning curve. Very true.

[aris-www.todopocketpc.com]

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I have used most of them and I think that is probably the best one, and is cheap.
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Regards,
aris
p.s. Sorry about my English :?