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Inking on Web Pages - Discussion
For me, Inking is hugely useful. I'm a student so I spend a lot of time researching journal articles, websites and ebooks. A lot of my lecture and university-provided material is online too. The ability to ink all over these webpages, highlighting key points, scribbling notes and printing/sending to OneNote has been really useful for cutting down how much paper I have to use and for interacting with what I read and summarising it. I do this both during lectures and when studying at home.
Aside from just academic stuff, I've been using it a fair bit when I've planned holidays/travelling
With regards to tools, I think the ability to use a stylus such as a Surface Pen to draw in a variety of colours and thicknesses, and the ability to highlight, are the two big ones I'd personally like from this feature. Saving-wise, the ablility to print, to paper and/or PDF for sharing would be great, and the ability for any web annotations to be sent to OneDrive like in the old Edge.
Thanks!
Thank you DRelliot90, for your feedback. As you think back on your usage are there any other changes that you would make to the feature? Have you ever wanted to get your notes on your mobile device? Have you wanted to type up notes rather than just writing with a stylus or finger? Thanks - Elliot
Hi Elliot, sorry for the long delay in getting back to you with this!
In terms of new additions, yes - typing as well as drawing onto documents and webpages would also be useful, and maybe would allow me to copy key bits of text from elsewhere and overlay it on what I'm annotating so that I can see the bigger picture of what I'm working on.
Another thing I've thought about before, which is particularly relevant as I mark up the journal articles I read whilst studying, is that it would great to be able to have layers of inking, where different layers of annotation can be turned on or off. This would be really quite useful when annotating media where there isn't much space around the content for the ink, and would also allow for better division/categorisation of my notes.
Being able to access my notes on my mobile, either through the Edge browser there or via OneNote, would also be really quite useful; I normally save my annotations to OneNote so I can access them on any device.
- Layered Inking sounds quite useful to me as well!
Elliot Kirk
Elliot, I use this a lot & it is unique to Edge & it's 1 of the things that makes Edge special & appealing. I just want to add that with Add notes (or Inking) can grab a portion or piece of a page... it's not necessarily the entire page. Can be just the specific item of momentary interest... image, some text, etc. This is what makes it SO nice then, one can add notes or whatever to go with the segment. Plus, when it's coupled with Share, it becomes even more 'powerful'... to people & places, to print, to OneNote. It's great when you want to show something to someone, but, not the whole page or a URL. AND, able to do it all in real time & right within the browser; HOW NICE! As for its tools, personally, don't know what I'd change , add or have working differently... what's there, now, seems to do the job quite nicely, really. You know the old saying, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it".
Cheers,
DrewElliot_Kirk
Here, just on a sudden whim, I took a minute & threw this wee something together. Used all tools available (think I did, anyway). Can you see where I used the eraser? <-- a little joke I couldn't resist. This can now be saved & or shared via which, of course, is, logically, sitting right beside . (Not buried in the ellipsis! Geeesh
) The cool thing is could take JUST the bit wanted from the page AND never had to leave the page to do ANY of the process, never had to go outside the browser, never had to grab an outside tool AND never had to enter the ellipsis! It doesn't get any easier, quicker, smoother or simple... not to mention, handy & convenient.
The article from which, I pulled this is https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/technology/an-alarming-discovery-in-an-astronauts-bloodstream/ar-BBX8Ek2?li=AAggNb9.
Cheers,
Drew
