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  • #31
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    Frank: how does Writeroom differ from the notebook application that's included with the iPhone?

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    • #32
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      So when you transfer notes from your iPhone to your computer you transfer it into what program? And how is it transferred?

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      • #33
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        I guess it's just me, but writing an entire screenplay on an iPhone or blackberry or any of those seems like trouble to me. Seems like it would be easier to hack or to lose it completely. But I could be wrong.
        "The two hardest words to write are FADE IN. The two most gratifying are FADE OUT."

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        • #34
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          Originally posted by Frank Black
          I copy the notes into whichever program I'm using - DevonNote usually. And it's copied out of WR's browser-based interface.
          Thanks for the clarification, Frank.

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          • #35
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            I'm a gadget freak and enjoy all that stuff, but I'm still astounded by how much creativity can be released using just a favorite pen and favorite notebook.
            "Friends make the worst enemies." Frank Underwood

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            • #36
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              Originally posted by DavidK View Post
              ...but I'm still astounded by how much creativity can be released using just a favorite pen and favorite notebook.
              I'd use those items 'cause it doesn't take a big pocket to keep them in, but I've found that my handwriting really really sucks. I spend more time trying to decipher what I've written than actual writing.

              In a generation, our fingers will evolve so that we won't be able to hold a pen or pencil anymore. Just really thin, tapered fingers to better use smaller and smaller keyboards.

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              • #37
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                Originally posted by haroldhecuba View Post
                In a generation, our fingers will evolve so that we won't be able to hold a pen or pencil anymore. Just really thin, tapered fingers to better use smaller and smaller keyboards.
                Yeah, but only if screenwriters only ever marry other writers or typists. They'll evolve into a seperate subspecies of specialised human beings unable to do anything much other than sit at a desk and type with their tiny tapered fingers. And they'll all die out when voice-recognition is finally made to work. No way am I gonna marry another writer...

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                • #38
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                  I looked into this app;

                  You can't export your work.
                  Typing seems... sluggish.
                  Crashes alot, which loses your work.
                  Unable to copy/paste.

                  Save $3 and don't buy this. If you really need to type on the go without a laptop, buy a pocket size notebook and pen. There ya go.
                  Originally posted by Great White Mark
                  Film is art? Just a tip, it's called show business, not show art.

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                  • #39
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                    I've been doing a lot of research on speech to text software and instruments. Mainly because I have a few crushed discs in my lower back and sitting for lengths of time is very painful. - Eureka!! I found it...

                    Nuance's Dragon will turn your speech to text on your screen. $200 includes the wired headset - there is an option for wireless (a few $ more).

                    You need 1 GB RAM, 1 MG Cache, Dual Processor.

                    I have to upgrade my Presario 3000 - or buy another puter.

                    One feature I really like is; you can record your ideas on the pocket recorder, sit down and play it back, and it becomes text in your word document.

                    The height of lazyness, but for some - pure necessity
                    BJ

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                    • #40
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                      Originally posted by Butch Jarvinen View Post
                      Nuance's Dragon will turn your speech to text on your screen. $200 includes the wired headset - there is an option for wireless (a few $ more).

                      You need 1 GB RAM, 1 MG Cache, Dual Processor.

                      I have to upgrade my Presario 3000 - or buy another puter.

                      One feature I really like is; you can record your ideas on the pocket recorder, sit down and play it back, and it becomes text in your word document.
                      I use Nuance's 'Dragon - Naturally Speaking' and find it very accurate.
                      (What's 1 MG Cache? Do you mean 1MB?)

                      I'm not sure you can record stuff on a pocket recorder and have that converted to text because it sounds so different to natural speech, unless things have changed in the latest version of the software (#10, which I haven't yet installed). I have tried to do that, unsuccessfully. Dragon needs to be trained for each user, and it involves having the microphone positioned correctly and it's sensitive to changes.

                      The only way to achieve this is to listen to the recording you made on the pocket recorder and re-speak that into Dragon. It can be done and I use the same method for making transcripts - I listen to the transcript, pause it, and repeat the lines into Dragon, a fantastically quick method of transcribing something if you want to do it without hiring a transcriber.

                      Dragon can also follow voice commands to operate various types of software and is a useful tool for the disabled.

                      It should be possible to use Dragon for Movie Magic (or Final Draft) because it also understands keyboard commands, for example "New paragraph" for the return key, "Tab" for the tab key etc. Dragon also lets you use drop-down menus with voice commands.

                      It's worth the few sessions it takes to train it to your voice.
                      "Friends make the worst enemies." Frank Underwood

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