There is a new kid on the Tablet PC blog scene called Pimp my Tablet: Looking for Ink in all the wrong places… Love the title! The author is a fellow Canadian, Mitch Tulluch, from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is the author of books like The Microsoft Encyclopedia of Networking and The Microsoft Encyclopedia of Security. He received a Motion LE1600 in October and is sharing some thoughtful posts.
 
Tabletology.com had the opportunity to visit Winnipeg this Summer and we showed off our Tablet PCs at Portage and Main, one of those wild intersections to be seen anywhere (though confusion corner in Winnipeg is also impressively confusing)! Lynette was born in Winnipeg and then did her undergraduate at the University of Winnipeg. I have a soft spot for the prairies.

After our podcast with James Kendrick and March Orchant, Michael Scherotter (Business Solutions Architect) from Mindjet dropped by and wrote a couple of words on Tabletology.com. During our podcast we were explaining how we wished we could pen all over our mindmaps. Currently, penning all over the map is impossible and, from our vantage point, something that really needs to be integrated into MindManager. We hope this is possible in future versions. When the new version of Mindmanager was recently released (along with Mindjet’s nice new logo) we were surprised that the entire Mindmapping canvas was not inking sensitive.

This reminded us a bit of how few robust inking capabilities are integrated into Adobe Acrobat. This had always baffled us because PDFs are perfect for inking! This gaping hole by Adobe has left the door open for software like PDF Annotator. I have used PDF Annotator on and off and have wrestled between the shortcomings in both PDF Annotator and Adobe Acrobat. We wrote a little review of it here.

Back to MindManager. Michael Scherotter from Mindjet dropped by to let Tabletology know about a plugin for MindManager where you can export a mindmap into Microsoft OneNote. This is a good start,  though for now this is obviously a workaround for having the entire MindMapping canvas inking sensitive. 

I tried to export 2 mindmaps I have been working on to OneNote and have mixed results. The first map (see below) worked fine. The map was successully exported into OneNote. I can now draw all over it. Of course if I want to make changes to my original mindmap I will have to switch back and forth between MindManager and OneNote.

Then I tried to export another map I have been working on. It is a large map and while I tried to adjust the zoom function, as you can see from the photo it produced a fuzzy non-workable OneNote page. This is too bad. Does anyone know whether there is a workaround for this? Do let us know.

Download the OneNote MindManger plug-in here and let us know your experiences. 

We have some other wishes for MindManager which we’ll write about in future posts.

More TC1100 and Cape Split beauty. Go here for Part I of our Cape Split adventure.

And, in case you thought all went smoothly with our TC1100 shoots, this is Lyn’s reaction at Cape Split to Tim dangling her Tablet PC TC1100 (once again) above the highest Tides in the world.

It has been made clear that on the next challenging hiking trip it will be my TC1100 that will act as the stunt-machine!