However, for people who don’t feel they need that…free is good. The only issue with getting it that way is that your notes wouldn’t be backed up by Amazon, since you wouldn’t have gotten it through the Kindle store. Yes, that’s an improvement in the K3, I believe. I think my DX wouldn’t allow me to type while in symbol mode. That’s not so far out there: Amazon licenses Vocalizer from Nuance…the people who make Dragon. I’m hoping that the microphone’s “future functionality” will include making verbal notes, ideally converted by text. Yep, I understand…it’s awkward, but it works for short things. And if i leave the symbol box open it makes it more likely ill press menu by mistake for some reason. I’m afraid I’m lazy enough that I dont care that I’m not easily getting any of the millions of accents all my languages seem to need áéíóúàèìòùāēīōū, but welsh at least, and english to a certain degree, really needs apostrophes all over the place. Finding the symbols is also really annoying. You can save by pressing save, but as you saw, that ends up creating loads of useless entries in the my clippings file from various parts in the notes life cycle. It’s amazing for short notes, and continuous while reading notes, but when taking longer ones I invariably will press “menu” or “back” in a typing frenzy, losing all the note since I last “saved”. I intensely dislike writing lengthy notes on kindle. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.ġ6 Responses to “Using your Kindle as a notepad” You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. This entry was posted on Octoat 4:29 am and is filed under Tips. This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in the I Love My Kindle blog. You’ll still have to call up the note, either by selecting the superscript number or doing Menu-View My Notes & Marks. You won’t open the document and see your notes immediately…it will be like notes in the text file I use. For some people, it might be worth a dollar to get the file on your Kindle easily and to have that backup. These will have the advantage of backing up your notes to that site. There are some utilities you can buy from the Kindle store to serve as a notepad. However, I do think making these notes is improving my texting speed…a collateral benefit. I type quickly, but text embarrassingly slowly. If you send texts, you’ll probably find thumb-typing on the Kindle pretty easy. My notes are often longer than I can see easily, so I’ll hit enter, but just not actually edit it. You can edit it by hitting “enter”, delete it with delete key, and share it with Twitter or Facebook. If you Save & Share, your note can also go to Twitter or FaceBook, if you’ve set that up. You’ll see the option either to Save the note or Save & Share. However, to finish up, you’ll have to hit the Sym key again. When the Sym button is pressed, you can continue to use the keyboard. To put in symbols, like : / and so on, use the Sym key. To type numbers on a K3, you can either use the Sym key or use Alt and the top row of letters. You can hit “enter” without ending the note. Only one note showed on the Kindle, but M圜lippings.txt had a separate note for every time I edited it. One odd thing, though: I was making a note, and I edited it several times during a meeting. Most of the time, my notes are just for my use, so I don’t typically have to send them anywhere. The disadvantage is that I need to connect the Kindle to my computer if I need to actually copy the notes. That makes them easy to find, and I delete them when I’m done.
I called it Notepad, but you could call it whatever you want. However, I’ve created a text document using Windows, and put that in the Documents folder on my Kindle using my USB cable. That means you can copy and paste from that website right into an e-mail or a document, and that can be convenient. The biggest advantage is that the notes are stored for you automatically at There are some advantages to using a Kindle store book to make your notes. It’s just a little weird to remember which book it was. That’s how I started, and that works okay. You could just make a note in the book you are reading. You can’t create a document on your Kindle…you can add notes to existing documents.
#Can i use kindle on my pc how to#
I’ve mentioned that before, and I’ve had some people ask me how to do it, so I thought I’d do a post to explain it. I use it in a practical sense at work fairly often. Yes, I mostly read on it, and it’s not as easy as typing on a laptop, but it does work. I don’t even make notes with pen and paper. I was pretty amused to see the obsolescence of the pen as a plot point in a recent Fringe episode. It’s not like I write checks…I have a debit card. Why would I carry a pen? I almost never use them. When people on the street ask me if I have a pen, I always want to say, “No, do you need a keyboard? I have three of those.” 😉
0 kommentar(er)
