Asus Eee Note EA-800 - Notebooks Application

Notebooks

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There's a lot I could write on this one... but I'll use images to write less. :-)  You might have difficulties watching the video... unless you download it and view it at it's full 1080p quality.  Click the images below to view full size pictures.

The Index Page

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This is how it looks like when you have several notebooks made

 Sort by Tags

Once you click on the Tags button you can view tags and the number of notebooks within those tags.
This is one neat feature because it will make it easier to find things by "category".

Create New Notebook Button

 The icons display a small thumbnail of the first page.  You can see the "2" there and that means there are two Pages inside that Notebook.  Tags are also shown right next to the Notebook (ie, "Personal", "To Do", etc).

Date (year, month, day) and Time that the Notebook was last edited.  Icon to the right gives you some options.

Notebook options include:
Lock (It doesn't seem to work)
Move To - I assume it's SD Card (I have not tried it)
Rename Notebook
Move to Trash Bin
Sent To Evernote (it only goes one way...)

Soft Buttons at Index Page

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These are the Mandarin ones and the perform:

Back, Apps Index, Recent, Snapshot, Sort

Notebook Pages

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Page buttons

Notebook Name Button

After you click the Name Button you can write the Name of your Notebook.

 The virtual keyboard

Numbers and symbols

 Don't know what this is... but looks like the the Mandarin stuff

This version doesn't recognize English characters... It looks like it gives you suggestions based on what you write.

Page Index Button

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This is how you can scroll through pages or view thumbnails of each page.

 Scroll allows you to go through pages easily (it's the same with books)

Using the Thumbnail feature allows you to view each page as a thumbnail (up to 6 at a time)

Send To Button ??

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I haven't tried this... and I bet you need one of those micro sd cards to get it working.

Tags Button

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 This is how you add Tags to your Notebooks.  (It does not tag individual pages)

Add as many Tags as you want

Insert image Button

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You can insert an existing image from your Album/Gallery or Take an new Image with the camera

 After you select your image from the Album you are given some options

Crop your Image

 Rotate Image Buttons

Zoom "-" makes the image smaller within the canvas

 Zoom "+" makes the image bigger within the canvas

If you mess things up you can "reset"

 This is the OK or Add button.  The last button takes you back to the Album/Gallery so you can pick a different image or cancel.

Once the image is added you can move it around. 

The Left button adds the image to your Page, can you guess what the right one does?

Undo and Redo Buttons

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To activate the "redo button" you must first Undo!  It comes in handy when you mess up.

Ink Shade Button

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Your color pallet includes different shades of gray which are light, medium and strong.

Erase Button

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Small, medium, and big eraser.  If you have the two button stylus or stylus with eraser then you don't have to tap this button all the time.  If you love making notes... and are not perfect like I am (right...) you will be using the Eraser button.

Pen Button

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These are your note taking tools:
Pencil, Pen, Marker, Pressure Sensitive, Highlighter

Delete Page Button

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Did you make a mess and you want to delete an entire Page?  yes you can.

Page Layout Button

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If you don't like the default ruled layout... change it!

 There's 42 Page Layouts included with the Eee Note

All kinds of layouts...

 There's blank ones too so you can sketch without using lines.
If you use a layout with lines (as an aid) you can change the layout once you are done (it won't remove your notes/sketches)

If they have text... it won't be in English.  I hope the English firmware fixes this.  I wish you could create your own layouts and then add them.

New Page Button

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You can add as many Pages to your Notebook as you want.  If you add a New Page it will add the Layout automatically.  Kind of neat.

Soft Buttons Inside Notebooks

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A - Previous Page
B - Goes back to Notebooks Index
C - Goes back to Applications Index (home)
D - "Saves" - I don't use it...
E - Takes a Snapshot of your current drawing
F - Empy
G - Next Page

Some Notes

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This is one of the longest posts... mainly because it's one of the main applications of the Eee Note. The next one will be the Reader Application.  Jeez... my Sunday flew by really fast.

All your notes will be saved .GIF format.  You can view the quality on the samples.  If you want your hand written notes converted to text you will need some kind of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software.  Notes are saved at 768x888 pixels.

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I'm not sure when I will make the post about the Reader Application... creating content takes time.  But I hope this helps some of you looking for information about the Asus Eee Note.  ;-)

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Sample Notes

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Different writing using pens and shades

Again.. there's tons of layouts you can choose from.

My Fitness Notebook (Improvements thanks to The 4-Hour Body)

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This is just an example of how I use the Eee Note to track a task.

Some goals,  rules (short description), Logs to be updated daily on first page

Creating details.  You could be far more elaborate an artistic, but this works just fine.

The Title of the Page written with the Marker.  This makes it way easier to view the page title when using Thumbnail view.

Trying to achieve perfect scores for a Marine Corps PFT (Personal Fitness Test) and a CFT (Combat Fitness Test).