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== Web Notebooks ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' I do, but let's cover our second sponsor. Now I'll drop a little bit, one more quick item after that, if you want to do that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Awesome. Last week we spoke a little bit about the features of PairNote by Useful Fruit. This is the app that remembers what you type and when you typed it. By recording video or audio of whatever you're taking notes of, you get the ability to add context to your notes, which allows you to jump straight to the part of your media just by clicking on any word written. There is an awesome demo of PairNote, which you can find at usefulfruit.com. This demo shows off all of the awesome features of PairNote, including the ability to go into any part of the media that's recorded.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So you get to see all of that. So you're watching, basically, the demo is recorded by Chad, who's the developer. And it's a little video of Chad. And as he's talking, there are things happening. So he starts saying, oh, and now the text will start to highlight. And you start to see the text highlighting. There's a slide deck in the bottom right-hand corner, which is flipping through the slides. And it's an interactive demo. It's really cool. And you can see that by going to usefulfruit.com. And it shows off all the great features that are in PairNote. But what's really cool about this is in PairNote 3, which has recently been released, you can create these web versions of your own notes so you can share them with other people. So if me and Brad had just, if I'd been in a meeting, I need Brad to see my notes. And I've been recording the audio of that meeting. I can create a web version of that note and share it with Brad so he can see it too. PairNote for Mac has recently been upgraded to version 3, as I mentioned. This includes the ability to sync to Dropbox so you can share your notes with the iPad version of PairNote, which is a very cool application. You can do most of the things you can do in the Mac version. You can record audio, video, and take your notes. And it does all the highlighting and everything as you would have come to expect from PairNote. You can get PairNote from the Mac App Store, the iOS App Store, or directly from UsefulFruit.com, which is where you can go to see the demo I mentioned, to get a 30-day free trial, and for any more information you may need. Thank you very much to UsefulFruit and PairNote for sponsoring this episode of the PairNote and 70 Dispels Network.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Excellent. So what else did you want to talk about today?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so we kind of had a buildup of a theme which kind of started with the digital versus analog episode, and we talked about our friend Stephen Hackett, how he would scan in his field notes right into Evernote and had the OCR recognition, and so we'd have all his notes available. So then I got an email after that, and I'm pretty sure I copied you on it, about the gentleman, I forget his name, right off the top of my head, from Spain. It might have been Antonio, about his moleskin. He does the same thing, but the inks and the paper he was using, it didn't lend well to scanning because there was so much bleed through on the back. And I think we talked about this last episode or two episodes ago. I can't remember. It might have been a couple episodes ago. We've kind of given him recommendations for pens and other paper, and we talked about getting a Rodeo web notebook.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, he emailed me a couple of days ago. His Rodeo web notebook came in, and that knocked it out of the park for him. He did an ink test with about 12 different lines of different inks and colors, and I think only one super strong ink you could even see on the back of the Rodeo web notebook. So he was real happy for that recommendation. So Rodeo web notebooks, people, they're the real deal.

'''Myke Hurley:''' There you go.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. So his scans were, I was like, is this a blank page or what? You couldn't see the ink going through at all. So if anyone's into scanning for long-term storage of your notebooks, that's one to look at. It'll look a lot cleaner when you're scanning them in. So anyway, it was a success story, if you will.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Cool. So that's a big thumbs up from you then.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes, very much. And I have got a web notebook here at the house that I have not even cracked the paper, excuse me, the plastic on the cover yet. So I've never used it. It looks cool. I just got to get time to use it. Maybe I'll take it to work or something like that and use it around the office. Because I'm dying to crack the plastic on that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I've not had one. I've not been able to find one. But I want to.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. It's good stuff. It's good stuff. I like the smoothest of the paper.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' If you use, the only kind of catch, and we've talked about it plenty of times, is the paper's not designed to soak up the ink, right? So if you're using a heavy ink like a fountain pen ink, liquid ink, there's a little bit of a dry time that you have to be aware of.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So if you're using heavy inks and turning the pages, or in your case, if you're a lefty, if you're dragging your hand across the page, there might be. It's something you need to consider.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Interesting.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But almost, and for me, almost everything else positive about that trumps any of the dryness, drying time issues that there are. It's not extreme. It's just noticeable. And especially if you use, like I said, you know, if you're one of those guys that uses medium nib fountain pens.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like me.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's something to think about.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay. So anyway, that's about it. Excellent stuff.