Fishing for Information

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

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

5. A few pengestures give quick access to rich search functionality.

6. A few pengestures give quick access to rich search functionality.

7. A few pengestures give quick access to rich search functionality.

8. A few pengestures give quick access to rich search functionality.

9. Ink • Ink: Capture freeform thoughts & ideas

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

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

12. 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

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

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

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

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

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

18. ??? Tabula Rasa What is your vision?

19. Demo

20. 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

21. In situ search • 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

22. In situ search • 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

23. In situ search • 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.

24. In situ search • 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