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Hey Ben – I just came up with an idea that I think would make NoteBook the coolest piece of software I know of… Fir notebook doesn't, is type. I find myself playing with the demo, and mostly doodling – and when I do want to enter some text, I draw it with the mouse instead of typing it on the keyboard, because it's more FUN. Of course, the problem with doing the text with the mouse is that you can't search, and it takes up so much space – and you just might not be able to read it when you go back to it. So, here's what I think would make NoteBook even more really cool: Let me doodle out my text with the mouse, hilite it, and then click on a button that will turn it into text, in the current font! Of course there are a few ways you could do this – asking the user to write out the alphabet a couple of times, and then analyzing it interactively with some help from the user, or actually learning from the user's written text, only asking when something isn't recognized (neural network style, I believe) would be great. Just a <cool> idea… 😎 …Steve