Fishing for Information InkSeine is a tool for thought that lets you fish for useful information directly from your ink notes. Fishermen catching salmon on the Columbia River using a seine.

Fishing for Information InkSeine is a tool for thought that lets you fish for useful information directly from your ink notes. Fishermen catching salmon on the Columbia River using a seine.

A few pen gestures give quick access to rich search functionality.

Ink Ink: Capture freeform thoughts & ideas

Ink + Search Ink: Capture freeform thoughts & ideas Search: Access supporting materials & documents

Ink + Search + Gather Ink: Capture freeform thoughts & ideas Search: Access supporting materials & documents Gather: Integrate what you find with your notes.

Ink + Search + Gather InkSeine is Ink + Search + Gather – A virtuous cycle that unifies these elements in a fluid user experience uniquely suited to pen interaction

Putting it all together A simple way to make complex notes and annotations.

Mark up a mash-up of snapshots A simple way to make complex notes and annotations. Mark Up

Amass & annotate all the docs you need for a project A simple way to make complex notes and annotations. Amass

Launch pad for favorites – collect new stuff & related links in margins A simple way to make complex notes and annotations. Launch

Scrapbook stuff that’s important to you A simple way to make complex notes and annotations. Cherish

??? What is your vision? Tabula Rasa

Demo

Cost structure of sensemaking Rich tradeoffs, bail at any point- – 2-3s: Capture thought to search – 5-10s: Trigger search & see results list – 20s: Open doc from results or drag into notes – 30s-2min: Inspect Details & Refine Scroll through results, Apply filters, Revise query Grab snapshot from a document Correct reco errors – but tablet’s reco is amazing! – Sufficient depth for common info needs; not mired by last 10% of complex queries that need full featured search tools

In situ search 1.Leverage preexisting ink to initiate search – No context switch to a “search app” – stay in the flow – No tedious transcription of text to a “search box” that divorces search from context that originates it – Reduced cognitive barrier - slippery slope between ink  query

In situ search 2.Queries as first class objects, commingled with ink notes – Quickly capture intent to search – Search now, or later, as time permits – Visible and salient search history as part of notes – persisted with notes. – Queries can be moved, copied, pasted & modified

In situ search 3.Tightly interleaves inking, searching, & gathering – no ink/search barrier – Compact search UI - bring up in-place, without leaving context of work Make it feel effortless to repeatedly transition from inking, searching, back to inking – jot notes in the margin while searching – drag + drop from search results to page – side-by-side searches – defer ongoing search – minimal cost to close, just pick up later where you left off.

In situ search 4.Tightly couple queries with app content – Queries naturally persist in originating context – Easy revisitation of previous queries – Results of queries become new content Drag results into notes Create ad-hoc arrangements of useful documents Capture part of document for notes – Workflow spans app boundaries