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+say everyone can say hi to Sasha. Oh, we are recording now. Okay, great. But do say thanks
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+to Sasha for being everywhere at once trying to make sure that the stream is working properly.
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+She has the magic touch, yes, definitely.
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+All right, Vala, sorry to do that. But now the floor is yours. You can take as many questions
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+as you want. And I'll be making humorous comments when I'm not busy putting out fires in the
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+background. Okay. All right. Thanks, folks. So thank you for the questions. I'll take one by one.
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+How do you link the notes together so you could search through them in the future? Okay, this
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+video I made before, or rather the experience that I shared with you was before I got into
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+linking of notes and how to make sense of it. I'm still I mean, I'm thankful for guys like Leo for
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+putting our room together. However, yes, you can take a bow. However, I'm still in the infancy of
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+trying to link these topics. So the suggestion I have is once you convert your handwritten text
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+into text, so handwritten stuff from your notebook into text, or if you write it, if you have a
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+writing device, and you can convert it into text, input it into org rom and link it the way you
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+would do it. So I have not yet gone into it. But having said that, I've started doing it like a
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+week ago, I started linking these handwritten notes, which are converted into text, and then
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+can be linked to any other note that you want. So that's that would be my response to the linking
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+part. So which actually leads to the next question, is it necessary to OCR your handwriting?
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+This is a necessary step, you have to do optical character recognition, as in convert all the
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+handwritten stuff into text, because otherwise, indexing and linking becomes a problem later on.
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+If it's only you going through the handwritten notes, so that you browse it and read it when
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+you want it, that's okay. So you don't have to worry about OCR, just input the JPEG, the PNG,
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+or whatever file you use, format you use, input it into under the org mode headline, or the org
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+rom file, and you should be good to go. However, if you want the other stuff, then OCR becomes a
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+necessity. So I'm unfamiliar with any package that does the OCR conversion inside of the Emacs
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+ecosystem. So I use tools like OneNote, or I think Google Keep does that. I don't know of any other
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+free slash open source tools which do that. I'm not familiar, but I use an external tool to convert
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+handwritten text into notes, if you want the link again, read rating, if you want the linking and
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+the indexing. If not, for me, sometimes screenshots and handwritten notes have to go together,
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+so that I can find out, okay, this team or this student was talking about his project,
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+or her project, and this is the screenshot of their presentation, and I write down my notes,
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+and it goes along with that. That was for me a key to have that together, and not just hand
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+typewritten notes, because I have no recollection later on, but handwritten notes I seem to recall
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+better, and that's the whole idea of how to integrate. I was breaking my head over it.
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+So those are the two responses to those two questions. What about searching notes? Notes
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+to text while being offline? Oh my god, this is a related one as well. So yes, it is going to be
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+searching has to be linked. If you want the searching facility, it has to be converted text.
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+There are no two ways to that right now. Proprietary software like Google Keep seems to
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+manage it. I think others, OneNote also, Dropbox also says that they can do it. I haven't tried it
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+there, searching it inside these systems to look for handwritten text, because I don't use that for
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+managing my projects or making sense of what I've written down. So when it comes to
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+doing all those tasks, I use Org Mode. So I would say you absolutely mandatory for us to convert
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+this, unless I've made that appeal at the end of my talk, saying if Org Mode, Emacs, Org Mode
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+community can put their brains together. I don't know if I can help, but if you want me for
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+testing your package, I certainly put my hands up for this for sure. I can do that. I'm keen on
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+trying that out. I hope that answered the third question. These articles on, those articles are
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+not taking seems interesting. Could you get a link for them? I'll definitely drop it in the Etherpad
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+after this recording is done for sure. I will leave it there. It is my good friend in France
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+who shared that with me saying when he saw the title of my talk, he sent me a whole bunch of
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+articles saying, hey, this seems to support what you told me. And I have sort of shown you the
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+screenshots in the video, but I'll definitely leave some of these links in the Etherpad after this.
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+Oh yeah, I've used, the next question is, have you looked at taking handwritten notes on a tablet
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+like, I don't know how to say that, journal with an X plus plus? So yes, I have started using it
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+again. The only tools I used were OneNote and Google Keep because those were the only ones
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+which would allow for writing using my stylus. I'm sure there are other apps which can do it,
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+but do they convert it into text and how easy is it to input it into org mode is something that,
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+so for now, the Dropbox method for me was I write notes, I take a mobile camera, take a picture,
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+upload it to Dropbox. Why Dropbox? Because it allows JPEG to be uploaded. Whereas PDF,
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+I find it very cumbersome from handwriting to get it in here. So JPEG, I can input it into
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+org mode, I'm sorry, OneNote and that converts it into text and then I take it and put it into,
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+the inbox has the image as well as the converted text. So I put it into my system,
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+the org mode system. So that's how my workflow really is. I don't know if I answered that
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+question very well. I've used X journal, but not a whole lot to give you intelligent advice.
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+Have you tried out remarkable device to take handwritten notes as well? I haven't figured out
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+how to link the files back into org mode in a constructive way yet. Okay, so yes, I've heard
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+of remarkable devices. There's another one called Books, if I'm not wrong, and Amazon has also come
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+up with a writing, I call it the writing Kindle. I don't know what it's called, a smarter name for
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+that. So these devices do exist, but I'm not sure if they convert it into text and if they can put
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+it in a repository, which is accessible on your computer, where you can import it into org mode.
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+I'm not so sure about those things. So linking that would be nice if you can have access to
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+where your Emacs org mode ecosystem is. For me, Dropbox works very well because it's on my mobile
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+phone, smartphone, as well as on my computer. So the linking happens and I can just push it all
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+into my org mode inbox and process them and refile the notes or do all the good stuff linking. If I
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+have the text, I can link them, do all that I can. I can certainly do that. So that's my answer to
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+the... where did it go? Remarkable stuff. That question is gone. I don't know. Okay, anyway,
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+so that was... Yeah, I don't see it either anymore. It's disappeared, but thank you for
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+taking the time to answer it. Okay. So next one. How are we on time, Leo? I can talk all day.
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+You are completely good on time. Don't worry. We have until 45 at the current hour
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+until we need to move on to the next box. It's very roomy. Take your time answering as many
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+questions as you want. Okay. All right. So I won't have either. All right. Something to think about
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+is handwritten and org transcribed notes, deduplication for searching. Do you want one or
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+the other? Oh, okay. So this is wishlist. Oh, thank you so much for asking this question. Transcription
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+for me has become important, not only handwritten, but also voice notes. So this is another thing
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+that I've been... I have a couple of podcasts where I want a summary of my important points
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+and I can grab the voice clips, but transcribing it, in spite of so many tools out there,
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+I find it very difficult to transcribe them automatically. I can make the error corrections
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+later on, but I find it extremely cumbersome to transcribe voice notes. So it would be nice
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+if we can have voice transcription, one. Handwritten transcription also helps for sure.
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+If it can be done, then it makes it... Actually, that's a great idea. Transcription. I wasn't
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+thinking of inside. I was thinking of basically taking the notes and somehow linking it within
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+the handwritten stuff itself. Maybe my limitation imagination, but transcription is definitely
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+something that I would be very interested in. Voice as well as handwriting. I've seen it in
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+some other software. I think it was OneNote where I saw that you can record yourself vocally and
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+also there is a transcribe for paid packages. They have transcription as well. And then you
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+could link text from there on. So if we can do it in our R mode system, nothing like that. I keep
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+seeing it and notes keep coming up there. I keep writing it on my Wacom device or my remarkable
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+device and it goes into my R mode as I write and as I speak. Unbelievable. This is important. This
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+is really important. Thanks for the great idea. I hope this... Again, I volunteer myself to test
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+this out as well. I have tons of... At least this year, I have produced 300 minutes of podcast
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+content and I find it extremely cumbersome to transcribe it easily. So if this can do it for us,
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+at least even a minute or two of the text, nothing like it. That's amazing. The last question I see
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+is how often do you instead type in and summarize your notes? Would you consider that a suitable
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+approach for yourself at the end of the day? That's a good idea of typing notes. When I'm in
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+a hurry, I type. So when I'm in a tearing hurry or my notes is just lying somewhere and there's
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+a meeting going on, I don't want to get up and go get my notes, I immediately go to my R mode and
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+start typing there. So that's what I do. At the end of the day, I don't have that habit at all.
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+I promised myself that I should do daily journaling and all that because it's... Everybody
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+says it's a good habit. I've done it a few times and I found it to be good, but it's not a habit
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+I'm yet on. So I mean, I also have a shortcut, a keyboard shortcut for the org-grown dailies.
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+I do have that and it shows up on the calendar, the blue color. I love those features,
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+but I'm not on it. I should make it a habit. As much as I look at my org agenda,
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+you should have dailies as well. I type out when I'm in a hurry. Perhaps even writing
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+your daily journal could be helpful. Particularly, I find that I'm comfortable typing English
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+letters. If non-English, for example, my mother tongue has a different script, which I can't
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+easily type using English. So perhaps writing is easier there for me rather than typing it out.
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+It feels very weird. So perhaps that could help for non-English, non-Roman script. Perhaps
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+writing is better for journaling as well. I guess that could help.
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+Okay, Bala, if I can interrupt you for a second because don't worry, I'm not stopping you with
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+the questions. I told you you have until 45 and I will honor what I said before. But I just wanted
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+to let people know that we have opened up the BBB chat room. So if people want to join the room now
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+and ask questions directly to Bala, who has already answered many of your questions on the
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+pad, but if you have more questions or if you'd just like to chat with Bala, well, do feel free to
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+join the room. The link has been pasted on the ISE channels. It's also available on the talk page at
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+the top. So you should be able to find the link pretty easily. And even if we move to the next
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+talk, if you're still there and still want to chat with Bala, provided Bala is available and does not
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+need to sleep, by the way, with respect to the fact that it's really late over there, do feel free to
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+hang around a little more and ask more questions and we'll be posting all of this on the website
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+afterwards. So Bala, I think, do you have one more question on the pad or was it the last one?
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+Let me check. I think that was the last one. Oh, there is a new question coming up just before that.
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+Do take it then. Sure. I was going to say something of an experience I wanted to share,
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+but anyway, I can answer this. How fancy has your handwritten notes import been?
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+Okay, I'm going to wait for this. I'm not sure if we're talking about importing the notes into,
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+like, is it merely importing the files or is it about importing it to your note-taking system,
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+like, or whatnot? Okay, okay, okay. I get it. I get it. So I have a simple system for, yes,
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+I absolutely agree with you. I mean, the birth of org-mode was that you wanted notes and you wanted
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+tasks inside it, right? So that was the origin of that. So I think the same philosophy applies for
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+handwritten notes as well because you're writing down notes and somebody says, hey Bala, can you
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+send me this document by next Wednesday? And I write that down in my notes and then I send it
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+and I write that down in my notes and that's a task. So I just put a star next to it. So I know
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+when I am scanning, I don't think that shows up as a, I don't think star shows up as anything in my
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+import, but I know when I'm scanning it that I need to keep track of that as a task. So in the
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+talk about it is in OneNote, control-1 is the shortcut for ToDo and if it is converted into
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+text, yes, of course, alt-enter in org-mode will work as well. So yes, so I think that is important
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+even, so that's the only thing that I do is an asterisk or a star just before the note so that
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+it tells me that it is a task that I have to keep track of. I even put a date so that the
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+numbers also get imported into org-mode. But my wish list, this has gotten me into me wishing is
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+if the handwriting notes, I mean the gadget, the device, the remarkable or the Amazon
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+writing pads of the world, if we can actually write down notes with a star, an asterisk,
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+and the headline and scheduled and all that and import it directly into org-mode, I think
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+that's doing away with a whole bunch of in-between scanning, uploading, processing, and all that. This
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+can go directly, you can start refiling into your system. So that would be nice. So somebody
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+is asking me for a wish list, here's one more too, if we can do that. So that makes basically
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+a writing org-mode rather than like as if it's a language, like a human language, rather than it
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+being something restricted to a computer. So that's interesting. That's an interesting thought.
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+Just to glorify handwriting, I don't know if it has anything to do with the questions. A few days
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+ago, a client of mine asked me for a talk and I was going to give them the plain vanilla talk,
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+but I decided to pause myself and write down what I was going to talk about. Actually that gave
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+rise to a completely different idea and the whole thing was far more effective compared to what was
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+my plain vanilla. According to me, that handwritten ideation that I did with a white space really
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+helped me think beyond what was my plain vanilla talk. Of course, the talk went well, I think,
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+and the audience did have fun because I even jotted down a few things that I wanted to crack
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+jokes on. All that went into my notes. So I think handwriting is sort of under-marketed,
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+underplayed so much with the advent of typing and these things becoming so efficient and easy
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+that I think that all your ideas, if they come together, I think handwritten notes will become
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+part and parcel of the org-mode system itself and an effective and efficient way of capturing our
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+thoughts. All right, Bala. So I think you don't have any more questions currently. I don't see
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+anyone with a microphone on. So by the way, if you're joining us on BBB and if you want to ask
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+your questions, you do have to join with a microphone. It is interesting for you to join
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+listening only, but if everyone does this and nobody turns on the microphone, it's going to be
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+very lonely for Bala and myself. I can ask questions for you. I have plenty of questions
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+that I'd love to ask. I did get my own tablet. Oh, actually, let me show the stream. Let me...
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+Oops. Can I un-full screen this? Yes. Okay. Let me try to make the screen a little bigger so that
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+you can see me. Okay. I was going to talk to you about, if we have a little more time, because I do
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+have a tablet like this, which allows me to do handwritten notes. This is... Don't worry too much.
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+This is a lead code exit slide that I was solving. And this is Yink, which allows me to type my
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+stuff. And I bought this about two years ago. And I've really been struggling to find ways to...
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+How do I work both in the Emacs and how do I work with my NVDA notes, which is why I was really
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+interested with your talk, because honestly, right now, those are two completely separate
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+collections of notes. What is in my machine, this device right there, is its own thing.
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+It has its own quality. Do I do my journaling in it? I do my journaling, maybe. I also do my lead
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+code exercise. But that's about it. And I wish it were easy for me to connect the dots between
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+what I've got on this device and what I've got on my computer right in front of me. So I can talk
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+some more about this, but people could also join and ask their own questions. I can talk to Bala
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+whenever I want. I've been in touch with Bala for quite a while. And I'll be able to do this
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+whenever. But this is your chance for you to do this, to have your question answered,
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+and for the question to leave on EmacsConf forever and ever. All the talks for EmacsConf,
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+all the questions since three years ago have been published. So it is your chance to,
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+if you're not making a talk of your own, at least you have the questions of your own leaving on
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+a website. So Bala, I believe you were a little interested with my little device. Do you actually
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+have a device of your own that allows you to take notes like this? Or is it just written on paper?
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+My computer is a touchscreen, so I can write. I have a stylus that I can use to write anywhere
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+on the screen. So I take the laptop and actually fold it, and I can use it like a notebook. So this
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+is my use case these days. So when I'm learning, I'm learning Japanese, by the way. And I tell you,
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+there's no way I could have retained so much if I had not written Japanese out, the characters. So
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+this is critical. Writing is critical. And their ideas, when they're externalized,
+
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+you see it while you're writing it, there's a physical action, you feel the proximity to your
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+ideas, what you're doing. So typing, yes, it is also physical. But for me, it's one step away from
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+writing down. For me, that's going to make you laugh. I was also studying Japanese and I do have
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+my own kanji that allows me to do my practice. So please don't look at it. If you're going to pause
+
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+this video and check what I've written, you will be sorely disappointed because those are just
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+collection of verbs. But this is how I practice my kanji as well. And it's been amazing. This is,
+
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+you know, it is such a wonderful usage, because if you try learning kanji,
+
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+just by seeing them and not putting them in your hand or embedding them in your hands,
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+it's so complicated to do so. Oh, we have more things in common than I imagined. Okay.
+
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+Yeah. So we happen to have someone in the room currently. Jack, I believe, is their nickname.
+
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+Do you have a question? And do you want to maybe unmute yourself to ask the question?
+
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+You are more than welcome to do so now. I might actually need to unmute you. Actually,
+
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+I can't. Can you unmute yourself and ask the question if you want to?
+
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+I'm just trying to get my headset set up. I'm having the similar struggle with this issue of
+
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+handwriting my notes because that's the easiest way for me to write them quickly. It's also very,
+
+24:12.880 --> 24:20.880
+it does help me retain the information better. But then getting them back into org mode. I'm
+
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+about to start experimenting with some of the iPad apps like Notability and GoodNotes to see
+
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+if that can work or if I can use Apple Notes for that as well. My interests are probably similar
+
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+to yours. I'm studying computer science, and I have two kinds of notes that are very difficult to
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+transcribe. Mind maps, which is often the way I take class notes because it's a good outlining
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+form. But the handwriting recognition blows if you're part of the expression. And equations,
+
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+particularly involving proof steps for formal semantics. And I'm wondering if you have any ideas
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+about mind mapping in particular and getting those incorporated from handwritten notes. I hate using
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+the mind mapping tools that are available. I find that that replaces the bad methods that
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+I use. It replaces the bad memory generation from typing with a bad memory generation for mind
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+mapping. But if you have any thoughts, I'd love to hear them. Actually, I have used mind mapping
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+tools. I use something called function maps, where you not only have interlinking relationships,
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+this also has what is the relationship, what is the nature of relationships. All that I've been
+
+26:13.360 --> 26:23.760
+drawing it on my laptop screen. So that helps me internalize that. So I do not convert it into
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+any other digital format. I leave it as a picture because every time I read it, but in the digital
+
+26:31.920 --> 26:40.160
+format itself, when you have new understanding, you can actually add another object and interlink
+
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+them and add the relationship. So it's a lot easier if it's on this. But on a piece of paper,
+
+26:46.960 --> 26:55.040
+drawing a mind map and or function map and editing it and moving things around becomes a problem.
+
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+So I find that doing it on a device and retaining it as such, not converting it into a free mind or
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+any of those kind of XML or anything like that, doesn't help me at all, or a plan TML even. But
+
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+I find that I leave it as such in the digital format. You can select it, like a lasso select,
+
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+move it around and add new objects or remove it or shade it. You can do all those good stuff,
+
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+if it is remaining in the same way. So I like it to be that way. Yeah, I've done that as well
+
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+on the iPad. I'll use Nebo or something like that to give me a good way of rearranging the mind map
+
+27:45.600 --> 27:53.840
+directly in the iPad, exporting it as a JPEG and linking it to other notes documents that I have.
+
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+But I do wish I had a better way of extracting the keywords that come out of it and having
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+those searchable. But I get it. Okay, the answer is no, I don't have any. I usually link the live
+
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+document itself into org mode. So for example, OneNote. OneNote colon and the entire... I just
+
+28:17.840 --> 28:22.640
+click on that and it goes, opens the exact document that I want and I can add more to it.
+
+28:22.640 --> 28:28.000
+I do something very simple.
+
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+All right, folks, I'm really sorry for interrupting you, but we are getting close to time.
+
+28:33.200 --> 28:38.560
+Thank you so much for joining. We have four people on the scene right now, which is amazing.
+
+28:38.560 --> 28:45.440
+You can continue talking about this and people can still tune in. The link to the BBB room
+
+28:45.440 --> 28:50.640
+is still available on Bala's talk. You go to EmacsConf 2022, you go to the talk of Bala and
+
+28:50.640 --> 28:55.200
+you'll find the link at the top of the page. You can come in the room and chat with Bala some more.
+
+28:55.200 --> 28:58.960
+But for us on the stream, we're going to move on to the next talk in about 40 seconds.
+
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+So Bala, thank you so much for taking all the time answering all the questions. And thank you,
+
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+Gag, also for coming and asking also lovely questions. I suppose it was really good.
+
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+Yeah, thank you. It was great seeing you. Sorry, I'm rushing because I'm being pressed for time.
+
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+And I will see you both whenever I see you. OK, bye bye everyone.
+
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+See you. Bye bye, Leo. Take care.
+
+29:28.000 --> 29:32.080
+Actually, I'm not sure. We are probably getting the next talk started currently,
+
+29:32.080 --> 29:36.000
+so you can probably still hear me on the stream, but it's going to take about
+
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+three seconds. I'll see you after.
+
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+OK, we are now off air. Thank you so much, Bala, for taking the time to answer all the questions.
+
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+Thank you. Ciao.
+
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+Yeah, I think no one is left in a BBB room, so I think people are probably not going to show up.
+
+29:54.800 --> 29:58.480
+So you've earned your well, your rest for tonight.
+
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+OK, thanks.
+
+30:01.840 --> 30:05.040
+Mine will not come before a long time. I still have about seven hours to stream.
+
+30:05.040 --> 30:07.120
+Oh, my God. OK.
+
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+All right. Well, thank you so much, Bala. See you next time.
+
+30:11.440 --> 30:14.400
+Thanks. Have a good day and I'll catch you soon. OK.
+
+30:14.960 --> 30:16.160
+Sure. Bye bye.
+
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+Bye bye.
+
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+Bye.
+
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+Bye.
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+Bye.
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+Bye.
+
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+Bye.
+
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+Bye.
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+Bye.
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