Focus for this week: Systems (past focus)

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I was pondering why I didn't use the extension I installed for drawing/sketching - here an example what I did, instead using it:

I wanted to illustrate something to someone. Wanted to create a cld (causal loop diagram), but not with mediawikiwiki:Extension:AnyWikiDraw
my thought was: "No, just not that!" Couldn't use skype extensions or desktop sharing, but even so, this also would have taken more time.

So, what did I do exactly?

1. I took a paper, drew what I had in mind

2. corrected and striked out things

3. used scanner to get the paper into KolourPaint

4. there I deleted the striked out "mess"

5. edited some things with digital text, because my writing in hurry is not so readable

6. and then send the sketch by email (here normally I would have to use the wiki upload funtion)

There surely is a device that can do this faster and more elegant, e.g.

• a small pda with WLAN, where I just can easily draw and upload by wlan (without using the scanner), preferrably all set up in the program - so after I draw, I press a button and automatically this click uploads it to the wiki.
• 350 $: Pattie Maes & Pranav Mistry: Unveiling the "Sixth Sense," game-changing wearable tech

I don't like that I have to adapt myself to the blocky devices (e.g. scanner) + services (e.g. have to click scan, save, add in email, ...). Ideas flow fast, if I lose time with things on the way, I have lesser ideas

todo: look for something which is small enough to carry around and where I can use some kind of pencil to draw and write text or even better: just think and it gets drawn automatically

wishlist:

• long running time
• small, but big enough that I don't have to scroll when drawing bigger sketches

— Erkan Yilmaz (talk) • 21:01, 1 April 2009 • one comment