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From: Michael Parson <mparson@bl.org>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Document management in Unix, back in the day?
Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 20:09:00 -0500 (CDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <454e6c44-d6cf-807a-41ef-f89773cde9ba@bl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD2gp_T2GSKvZhmjMGkz+KgZ+Fp+QgiKfEsXtie2hr2hqVRpcw@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, John Cowan wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 12:39 PM Seth J. Morabito <web@loomcom.com> wrote:
>
> Besides, it's fun to scribble notes all over printouts and Xeroxes :^)
>>
>
> I mark up a printout with scribbles ("hourglasses and arrows and a
> documentation resource for each one, sayin' what they was about, to be used
> in evidence against us"[*]) and then re-transcribe them into the original
> electronic doc.  I wish I had a better approach that wasn't so
> environmentally destructive, but I just don't notice errors as easily when
> they're just on the screen.

Have you looked into e-ink tablets?  The reMarkable series seems to be
pretty popular.  I recently got a Boox Nova Air e-ink tablet, works
great as an e-reader, but it also has a pretty decent PDF editor built
in that lets you scribble all over PDF docs like they're paper.

-- 
Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX

  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-13  1:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-04 17:01 Will Senn
2022-02-04 17:35 ` Seth J. Morabito
2022-02-04 17:43   ` Adam Thornton
2022-02-04 20:51   ` John Cowan
2022-05-13  1:09     ` Michael Parson [this message]
2022-05-13  1:52       ` George Michaelson
2022-05-13  2:04         ` Michael Parson
2022-05-13  2:41     ` Bakul Shah
2022-05-13  4:01 ` Kevin Bowling
2022-05-13  4:08   ` Adam Thornton

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