Hi, I often use my braille display to take notes in meetings at Work. It works quite well, as long as your not too worried about formatting. If you haven't typed anything in a while, just type a space and delete it, to prevent your display from going to sleep. Your braille display will go to sleep after 10 minutes of inactivity.
I use notes on the iPhone when taking notes in meetings, because if you sync your iPhone with itunes, your notes will appear in outlook. You can then copy the note to notepad or word and format it then save it to your computer. I have read braille books from BookShare and books from iBooks with my display, both work quite well. The only thing to keep in mind is that iOS8 has issues with bluetooth devices. I haven't yet used my display with iOS8, so hopefully someone who has will chime in here to let us know how braille displays perform under iOS8. Hope this helps, Brett. Sent with Siri from Brett's iPhone > On 10 Oct 2014, at 6:48 pm, Kerri Kosten <kerrik2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Everyone: > > I am considering purchasing a braille display and pairing it with my > Iphone and using this as a notetaker. > Currently, I have a very old, very outdated Pacmate from 2007 that I > haven't used in like two years. > Because the cost of a traditional blindness notetaker (such as say the > Braille Sense u2) is like $5,000 I was considering purchasing a > braille display and just paring it with my Iphone. > Does anyone do this and if so how does it work for you? > Is it a viable option? > How does it do when you have to take notes in an hour-long class or meeting? > Do most of the braille displays have a way for you to take notes on > them internally or do you have to use an app on the Iphone for taking > notes? > Besides being able to take notes and read them in braille, another > thing I really miss doing is reading books from say Bookshare, BARD, > or I-Books with a braille display. > Does reading novels/books from these sites work well using a braille > display and an Iphone? > Thanks, > Kerri > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
