Registered: Sep 1999
Location:
Posts: 18

Has anyone used Jot? I have read in many of the posts that Graffiti is easy to use and learn, but there is a product called Jot that more closely resembles actual handwriting. I want to buy it, but I am not sure if it is good or even worth it at all. I know that I can learn Graffiti, but Jot just seems so much easier.

Any input would be great.

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Modesto, CA USA
Posts: 599

Jot is quicker to use than Graffiti primarily because you don't have to "shift" to capitilize letters. They are accomplished by writing in the middle area of the input screen. You can also chose to write/input on the entire Palm screen. I've used it for several years and never turn it off. I'd also recommend another product from CIC caller Word Complete. This is a pick list that pops up on screen enabling you to chose the word that needs to be completed rather than having to write out the entire word. You can also edit a personal dictionary but the more words you add to this- the system starts to slow down.

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Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Tucson, AZ, USA
Posts: 13

In the previous post:
"Jot is quicker to use than Graffiti primarily because you don't have to "shift" to capitilize letters. "

Try middle caps hack. It's a hackmaster extension that gives Caps when you cross the alpha/numeric dividing line in the grafitti area. It improved my input speed significantly.


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Dan

Registered: Sep 1999
Location:
Posts: 43

I have to agree with the previous poster. Middle caps hack really speeds up the use of Grafitti. It works well.

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Posts: 74

JOT was the ONLY thing I missed moving from a WinCE to a palm. I tried it on the palm, but it was too slow (visor is supposed to be faster). It is nice because it is a lot closer to my own hand writing.

You can get even closer to your own handwriting with TealScript.

Today I am very happy with Graffiti and MiddleCapsHack.

Registered: Sep 1999
Location:
Posts: 18

Can someone tell me more about TealScript? I believe that is what it is called. Also, I see there are things called Hacks that give you control over the OS. The one I especially am interested in is MiddleHack. Apparently, this allows you to write characters in Uppercase. Can anyone offer some handwriting info??? Thanks.

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Posts: 74

TealScript is another handwriting recognition package. It does use a hack (more on that in a second). TealScript is nice because it allows you to assign any stroke to a character. It comes with a prebuild profile that is similar to Graffiti, but you can create your own profile with your own symbols. This sounds great, but the place that it fell down for me was my handwriting. My lowercase "a"s tend to look a lot like my lowercase "g"s and "q"s when I am in a rush. At first I was upset by TealScript then I looked at my writing on paper and realized that I couldn't automatically convert my handwriting to characters unless I took the word context into account. I personally don't want my Palm thinking that hard (Calligrapher on WinCE [and Newton?] does something like that).

Another nice thing about TealScript is its cost, it is like $20 which is less than JOT.

Hacks - I love hacks. Hacks are little pieces of code that are installed into HackMaster. HackMaster catches certain operating system calls, check to see if there is a hack to execute instead, if so it runs it. (I have not yet written a hack so if I am a little off on the implementation, sorry). The only hack TealScript uses is "rescript" it loads TealScript after a reboot.

For me it was easier to learn Graffiti than to constantly check to see if I was writing too fast.

Hope this helps

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Posts: 74

(sorry double posted last one -- please remove)

[This message has been edited by rsperko (edited 09-29-1999).]