InkLight

1. InkLight Matthew Branthwaite, Cheyne Mathey-Owens, Van Phan, & Nolan O'Brien

2. Tablet PC’s are cool, right? • Great for taking notes... But not great for reading notes. • There is no good note search application. • Therefore, users might take a lot of notes, but never look at most of them again, because no one wants to read through 50 pages of notes. • How often do people even refer back to their notes?

3. What if? • There was a good note search application? • Allowing you to: • Quickly and easily find specific information in your notes • Rank search results • Extract and group relevant information.

4. Who would use it? • Anybody who uses a Tablet PC for note taking could find this application useful: • Professionals • Students • Researchers • Notetakers!

5. One-click & write • Based loosely on the ease-of-use of Mac OS Spotlight. • One click, write, view results • Maybe return results dynamically, as the word is written? • Keep it simple: Avoid lists and checkboxes, which are hard to use in a pen environment

6. Information Extraction • Along with ranked relevant notes, a search will extract relevant information • You want to look up the definition for “dog food”, which you wrote in your CSE 481b notes. • A quick search for “dog food” extracts: dog food: to use your own software • You need Mike Jones’ contact info, which you wrote sometime last week. • A search for “Mike Jones” extracts: Mike Jones: Phone: 123-456-7890 E-mail: mikejones@who.com

13. Team Breakdown • PM and UI • Nolan O’Brien • Indexing and Search • Matthew Branthwaite & Van Phan • Information Extraction and Search • Cheyne Mathey-Owens

14. Risk • The biggest risks with this project are: • Personnel • Unanticipated injury, illness, vacation • Group Friction • Love Triangles • External • We rely heavily on the built in handwriting recognition software • Development • Creating relations between different pieces of text is not easy.