<!-- Automatically generated by emacsconf-publish-before-page --> In this talk, Bala Ramadurai shares how he takes handwritten notes and includes them in his Org Mode files. Afterwards, he will handle questions over BigBlueButton. The following image shows where the talk is in the schedule for Sat 2022-12-03. Solid lines show talks with Q&A via BigBlueButton. 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y2="120"></line> <text fill="black" x="0" y="133" font-size="10" text-anchor="left"> 5 PM</text></g></svg> </div> [[!toc ]] Format: 8-min talk followed by live Q&A (done) Etherpad: <https://pad.emacsconf.org/2022-handwritten> Discuss on IRC: [#emacsconf-gen](https://chat.emacsconf.org/?join=emacsconf,emacsconf-gen) Status: TO_CAPTION_QA <div>Times in different timezones:</div><div class="times" start="2022-12-03T15:05:00Z" end="2022-12-03T15:15:00Z"><div class="conf-time">Saturday, Dec 3 2022, ~10:05 AM - 10:15 AM EST (US/Eastern)</div><div class="others"><div>which is the same as:</div>Saturday, Dec 3 2022, ~9:05 AM - 9:15 AM CST (US/Central)<br />Saturday, Dec 3 2022, ~8:05 AM - 8:15 AM MST (US/Mountain)<br />Saturday, Dec 3 2022, ~7:05 AM - 7:15 AM PST (US/Pacific)<br />Saturday, Dec 3 2022, ~3:05 PM - 3:15 PM UTC <br />Saturday, Dec 3 2022, ~4:05 PM - 4:15 PM CET (Europe/Paris)<br />Saturday, Dec 3 2022, ~5:05 PM - 5:15 PM EET (Europe/Athens)<br />Saturday, Dec 3 2022, ~8:35 PM - 8:45 PM IST (Asia/Kolkata)<br />Saturday, Dec 3 2022, ~11:05 PM - 11:15 PM +08 (Asia/Singapore)<br />Sunday, Dec 4 2022, ~12:05 AM - 12:15 AM JST (Asia/Tokyo)</div></div><div><a href="/2022/watch/gen/">Find out how to watch and participate</a></div> # Talk <div class="vid"><video controls preload="none" id="handwritten-mainVideo"><source src="https://media.emacsconf.org/2022/emacsconf-2022-handwritten--how-to-incorporate-handwritten-notes-into-emacs-orgmode--bala-ramadurai--main.webm" />captions="""<track label="English" kind="captions" srclang="en" src="/2022/captions/emacsconf-2022-handwritten--how-to-incorporate-handwritten-notes-into-emacs-orgmode--bala-ramadurai--main.vtt" default />"""<track kind="chapters" label="Chapters" src="/2022/captions/emacsconf-2022-handwritten--how-to-incorporate-handwritten-notes-into-emacs-orgmode--bala-ramadurai--main--chapters.vtt" /><p><em>Your browser does not support the video tag. Please download the video instead.</em></p></video>[[!template id="chapters" vidid="handwritten-mainVideo" data=""" 00:02.200 Introduction 01:41.080 Org Mode 02:29.520 Handwriting 03:42.167 Combining Org Mode and handwriting 03:59.720 Step 1: Write the notes by hand 04:14.420 Step 2: Scan them 04:23.640 Step 3: Store the document 04:42.300 (Optional) Step 4: Convert the notes 05:02.280 Using touch devices 06:30.920 Options """]]<div></div><div class="files resources"><ul><li><a href="https://media.emacsconf.org/2022/emacsconf-2022-handwritten--how-to-incorporate-handwritten-notes-into-emacs-orgmode--bala-ramadurai--main.webm">Download --main.webm (80MB)</a></li><li><a href="https://media.emacsconf.org/2022/emacsconf-2022-handwritten--how-to-incorporate-handwritten-notes-into-emacs-orgmode--bala-ramadurai--main.vtt">Download --main.vtt</a></li><li><a href="https://media.emacsconf.org/2022/emacsconf-2022-handwritten--how-to-incorporate-handwritten-notes-into-emacs-orgmode--bala-ramadurai--main--chapters.vtt">Download --main--chapters.vtt</a></li><li><a href="https://media.emacsconf.org/2022/emacsconf-2022-handwritten--how-to-incorporate-handwritten-notes-into-emacs-orgmode--bala-ramadurai--script.fountain">Download --script.fountain</a></li><li><a href="https://toobnix.org/w/kr86uvn8KHey8cGULY71Aw">View on Toobnix</a></li></ul></div></div> # Q&A <div class="vid"><video controls preload="none" id="handwritten-qanda"><source src="https://media.emacsconf.org/2022/emacsconf-2022-handwritten--how-to-incorporate-handwritten-notes-into-emacs-orgmode--bala-ramadurai--answers.webm" />${captions}<track kind="chapters" label="Chapters" src="/2022/captions/emacsconf-2022-handwritten--how-to-incorporate-handwritten-notes-into-emacs-orgmode--bala-ramadurai--answers--chapters.vtt" /><p><em>Your browser does not support the video tag. Please download the video instead.</em></p></video>[[!template id="chapters" vidid="handwritten-qanda" data=""" 00:30.160 How do you link the notes together so that you could search through them in the future? 01:51.649 Is it necessary to OCR your handwriting? 03:59.351 What about searching notes? Notes to text while being offline? 06:00.080 Have you looked at taking handwritten notes on a tablet like Xournal++? 07:32.160 Have you tried out the reMarkable device and figured out how to link the files back into Org mode constructivley yet? 09:26.299 Handwritten and org transcribed notes de-duplication for searching: do you want one or the other, both? 12:01.280 How often do you instead type in and summarize your notes? 15:14.164 How fancy has your handwritten notes import been? 21:58.411 Do you actually have a device of your own that allows you to take notes like this? Or is it just written on paper? 24:36.320 Mindmaps """]]<div>Listen to just the audio:<br /><audio controls preload="none" id="handwritten-qanda-audio" src="https://media.emacsconf.org/2022/emacsconf-2022-handwritten--how-to-incorporate-handwritten-notes-into-emacs-orgmode--bala-ramadurai--answers.opus"></audio></div><div></div><div class="files resources"><ul><li><a href="https://media.emacsconf.org/2022/emacsconf-2022-handwritten--how-to-incorporate-handwritten-notes-into-emacs-orgmode--bala-ramadurai--answers.webm">Download --answers.webm (103MB)</a></li><li><a href="https://media.emacsconf.org/2022/emacsconf-2022-handwritten--how-to-incorporate-handwritten-notes-into-emacs-orgmode--bala-ramadurai--answers.vtt">Download --answers.vtt</a></li><li><a href="https://media.emacsconf.org/2022/emacsconf-2022-handwritten--how-to-incorporate-handwritten-notes-into-emacs-orgmode--bala-ramadurai--answers--chapters.vtt">Download --answers--chapters.vtt</a></li><li><a href="https://media.emacsconf.org/2022/emacsconf-2022-handwritten--how-to-incorporate-handwritten-notes-into-emacs-orgmode--bala-ramadurai--answers.opus">Download --answers.opus (11MB)</a></li></ul></div></div> # Description <!-- End of emacsconf-publish-before-page -->