1. Van Phan Matthew Branthwaite Cheyne Mathey-Owens Nolan O’Brien
InkLight by Nova Match
Van Phan
Matthew Branthwaite
Cheyne Mathey-Owens
Nolan O’Brien

2. Note-taking Many people take notes, but never look at them again
Opening a note takes more effort than flipping to a page
No method to search through your notes for a word
It might be easier to get the same information you took notes about by googling it

3. Note Searching We’ve attempted to solve these problems
By creating a one-touch and write application that searches your notes and lets you access them easily
It can be thought of as an incredibly easy to use note googlizer

4. Stan the Law Student Stan is about to take the Bar
Stan has thousands of Law notes on his Tablet PC
He wants to review terms that scattered throughout his notes
How does Stan find these terms in his notes?

5. Stan the Law Student
So Stan downloads InkLight, installs it (easily), and gets to work.
Right on, Stan!

6. Dan the Business Man
Dan meets Richard, a powerful executive, while at a meeting
Richard gives Dan his contact information, which Dan writes in his meeting notes
Later that year, Dan has a great idea that he wants to share with Richard
How does Dan find Richard’s contact info?

7. Dan the Business Man
Dan uses InkLight to search for Richard’s contact info.

8. Current Limitations Many limitations based on Ink Analyzer
Cannot search for “SIGCSE” for example
Our contacts search is rather limited
Contact name must be in our name dictionary
A phone number must be a single word with dashes

9. Future Vision Better performance
Definitely use a database rather than load everything into memory
Automatic indexing when a new note is made
Better information extraction
Not just over contacts
Integrated into Tablet PCs
Like spotlight in Mac OS X