[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] ultranash:
Some great ideas here

Hi all. I've been lurking on these boards for months, but I created an account to reply on this thread...

For handwriting recognition, FlexT9 seems to work really well for me. The handwriting recognition that was included with the Note was horribly useless for me. I didn't listen in school when they tried to teach us to start at two o'clock for letters with circular shapes, and to start at the bottom of vertical strokes. I have my own strange way of forming letters when writing, so maybe that threw the bundled handwriting recognition for a loop - it seemed pretty unforgiving when my friends tried it too though. I guess FlexT9 is known for its swype, but the handwriting recognition seems to be very accurate and quite snappy. I can just cruise along like this - write a word, tap space, write a word, tap space, etc.. without even looking at the output and for the most part it is spot on...

But I found that I get the most text down the fastest just by typing because FlexT9 is so forgiving about missing letters and hitting nearby ones. For me it is faster than swype or handwriting. I just type fast and don't worry about mistakes and misses because it does such a good job about guessing what I was trying to type. I use the voice to text frequently too as it is also a huge time saver for me.

And just to be clear, no I don't work for FlexT9 - I installed Touchpal also in the hopes that it would have good handwriting recognition but I tried FlexT9 first and haven't actually gotten around to trying Touchpal yet. I am a little concerned with the potential for these apps to steal my passwords or something, should I be worried about that? Are FlexT9 and Touchpal trustworthy?

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I found this particular thread today because I was searching google for any way to use my Note for input with Photoshop on my desktop. I see several people here have already raised this idea. So I'll second that idea (or 3rd or 4th it as the case may be).

I would love to be able to use my Note as a sort of poor man's Wacom tablet. It would be even better if it would show the currently open/active doc in photoshop on the Note's display. Not the whole desktop, or even the full photoshop interface, just the currently active document. That would be brilliant and it would address the issue of the cursor not moving on screen when the pen is in close proximity to the screen (as a real Wacom tablet does). By mirroring the current doc on the Note display we could pinch to zoom and see exactly where we are going to draw.

Sure the Note's pressure sensitivity is not great but it could still offer some benefit in Photoshop. I think the range should be adjustable. So you could set it low and have smoother control but only be able to make the brush size a little larger/smaller with pressure, or set a wider range and be able to make the brush size much larger/smaller but with much more noticeable granularity. To compensate for limited pressure control, make the volume rocker also control base brush size (with an option to put a touch based brush size control on the side of the screen). Actually come to think of it, ideally we could have, foreground/background eyedropper, color pickers, and brush size controls in a very small strip along the short edge of the Note display..