Lesson 4 - Ink with Digital Pen Stylus

In this video, I'm gonna show you how you can do ink on NoteDex cards. NoteDex features cross-platform ink. So you can ink on any computer that you have. Let's take an example where I want to create a flashcard using my pen. So I'm gonna create a new card I have a Microsoft surface, , laptop studio with the ink pen. And as I move my pen to the surface of the device. It detects that I'm going to be in ink mode. And as soon as I click on the surface on the card, it switches to ink mode. this card is going to be a flashcard, , on physics, , and this topic's gonna be the Feynman diagram. Great. You'll see that we have a number of different pen icons, eraser icons, and the last one, which is to erase all the ink on the card. Now I will paste an image that I that I found earlier. And I wanna take this image from this webpage that talks about what this is. And I am going to add that image into the NoteDex stack, like, so, and I'm gonna resize that. Move it over here. Great. Now I'm gonna go back into ink mode, which you can do just by clicking the icon as well. And I'm gonna select the black pen and I'm gonna say this Feynman diagram shows interactions in quantum physics. One of the nice features about NoteDex. You can also annotate the actual image. You can draw over an image, unlike many other apps. So in this case, I can annotate and edit this image and focus on what this is. And I'll say, you know what, I dunno what that is, and I'm gonna figure it out later. Okay. So as you can see, you can draw ink on a card. You can annotate a card with images. You could also have text on the image on the card, if you wanted. And you have a number of icons that can erase. And let me just go into some of those in more detail. First of all, we have the first erase icon, which is sort of more, a standard sort of just erase anything that it touches. So if I use this erase first on the first word up here. You'll see that I'm erasing part of the strokes at a go. The next icon is what we call erase a stroke. So that means like a line or a circle or the sort of that part of the ink. So sometimes it's more helpful for precision. And so maybe I will erase this circle by just touching it there. As I mentioned, we have the clear, all. Ink. I don't wanna do that just for this example. And then we also have a selector icon where you can select some ink. If you wanted to. A final point on the pens is you can click on them and change both the color and the size. So let's say we wanted to make this purple and larger, then we can do that. And you can see here, it's a much thicker stroke than before. And let me just remove that again with the stroke icon, change that back to black. And move that back to say, size two, you can change the color on all of the pens so they could be all different, whatever you choose. And again, the highlight is just a slightly different type of pen. As you'll notice. If I do a highlight, it's sort of more like a highlight pen in real life. to exit out of ink mode, you click on the pen icon that then puts the app in the mode that you're going to be doing text. Then you could be clicking in an area and adding text as well. So a card can have text ink and images all at the same time and that's a pretty cool feature of NoteDex. Okay. We're gonna clear that away and save this card. And then as we go back to the main view, You'll see, we have a nice thumbnail image that you can see in your thumbnail overview. That was a quick view and tour around the ink mode. Again please give it a go and let us know if you have any questions. Thanks very much.