Current ink technology only allows the capture and display of digital ink on device surfaces much like ink on paper,” said Paddy Padmanabhan, CEO, MyScript. “Digital ink innovations have remained stagnant over the last decade providing only limited capabilities. It then lets you instantly convert and transport them as digital documents. Their Nebo app lets you take handwritten notes, draw, edit and then format your notes quickly and easily. MyScript is a pioneering market leader in accurate, high-performance handwriting recognition and digital ink management technology. If you agree but can’t wait for Microsoft to get itself in gear you may love Nebo by MyScript, who’s spectacular note-taking app will make you ask “What Courier”. I tried looking for a PWA URL to access it directly, but it’s being shipped preinstalled on the X2 11 Chromebook, so Google seems to have found a way to hide it for now.I wrote two week ago that I felt Microsoft needed a pen-focussed operating system. I can’t wait to get my hands on it and to try it. Cursive even uses the same tool icons as Keep, so maybe one day they will combine their efforts, but this PWA is clearly aiming to provide a fresh and focused notetaking experience for Chromebook users. Keep is already capable of so much, but it certainly has its limitations. The only missed opportunity, as pointed out by our friend John Sowash, who I’m inclined to agree with on this, is that Google didn’t integrate Cursive into Keep, or use this as an opportunity to completely revamp the older notetaking service to include notebooks and improved handwriting tools. My only hope is that the many Chrome OS developer flags built around palm suppression and handwriting will help the operating system come to resemble something as clean and usable as an iPad and an Apple Pencil. It seems to believe that HP has a compelling enough product with the new X2 11 to warrant debuting Cursive on it, and that’s exciting to me as a productivity nut. It’s rare to see Google create a whole new application just for one use-case, but it’s clear that the company has built this for the future of devices that use modern USI stylus input. Couple all of this with automatic cloud backup, and it’s easy to see why Cursive is compelling and is truly the missing link when it comes to data entry for personal and enterprise usage. Scribbling through a batch of text will erase it, circling things allows you to reposition them, and drawing a line creates a sort of page break and gives you more space to write without manually scrolling. The real selling point for Cursive, though, is its ability to utilize Google’s own handwriting recognition superpowers that already exist in Chrome OS and Android. Keep can do this too, with varying success. That in and of itself is incredibly cool. Most importantly, a search function exists on the home screen so you can quickly locate notes – yep, it allows you to search for handwritten notes. There’s also an image insertion tool, redo and undo buttons, and a selection tool. A pen, a highlighter, a marker, color selection, an eraser, and more – all at your finger pen tips. Just tapping on a note will launch it so you can begin making modifications using the app’s slew of annotation tools that occupy the top row. Just below that, all of your notes will appear, sorted, of course, by those that are most recent.
As with Google Keep, one can choose between lined, blank, or dot graph paper (for all of my bullet journal enthusiasts!). When launching Cursive, users will be presented with what you see below – give or take an illustrated hand holding a fake pen – a ‘New note’ button at the top of the app followed by a row of user-created ‘notebooks’ which feature a hand-picked cover, title, and paper type. It’s not the first app of its kind, but it is the first web app of its kind to utilize low-latency pen input for high productivity.
At first blush, it looks very much like a competitor to Microsoft’s OneNote, and it lets you write and organize notes into “notebooks”. It’s launching first on this new device and then later this year as a progressive web application (PWA) on other Chromebooks. Cursive is an interesting surprise from Google – a handwriting and notes app developed directly by the tech giant that’s meant to complement HP’s new X2 11 Chromebook.
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