One of my favorite things about using the tablet PC was the ability to grab a screen shot of a web page and pull it into oneNote, allowing me to draw directly on top of the page. This made understanding the changes that needed to be bade greatly more simple in that you saw what was to be changed. I abhor the fact that basecamp made me write things like: on the third header down, left column on the home>menuItem>whatever page, change the color to black(#000000). With the tablet – I took a screenshot, imported onto the oneNote “paper” and drew a circle around the item adding a note to “change to black”. When I was all done – I exported as a pdf and sent to my developers. Amazingly this got through most language barriers, and since my snippet always included a URL – it was easy to click to see the actual page I was referring to. My idea is to create an app that would allow me to do the same process, but be sdB tied and based in AIR – this way, the files can be shared, responsibilities could be divvied up, and it would work on any internet connected computer anywhere. Theoretically – I could pull in the content of a page and use flash’s bitmap class to copy the screen. then the user would be presented with a the screenshot and a set of drawing tools. once a note was created on the page – the user could click”make task” and then there would be a reference to the task, who was to handle it, and a visual representation of what was to be done. Inviting others as collaborators to share the same projects, and possibly importing links to these markups within basecamp would make my life CTOing much easier. Would love thoughts, ideas, features, and critiques. Also would love to know if there is anything out there that already does the same – would save me a great deal of time.


