Ken Hinckley from Microsoft Research has unofficially put together a prototype Tablet PC note-taking application designed and built from ground up around the pen. InkSeine (rhymes with "insane") gives you the ability to easily search the web or your local computer directly from your ink. Although it's scheduled for a public release on February 15, 2008, Microsoft insists that it is not intended for public consumption: "InkSeine is a research demonstration only, and is not a Microsoft product, nor is it intended to become a product. It is just something we built as a pure research project to explore novel pen and ink functionality."
The program has a fairly extensive feature list, full of very innovative and intuitive ideas. InkSeine's main focus is search. Searching is built-in to the application, meaning there is never a need to switch to a separate "search application." Searches that are made straight from the user's notes can be saved there for later viewing. According to Microsoft Research, it all comes down keeping everything in one place when you are working on a project
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