[blindlaw] Notetakers

ray wayne rwayne1 at nyc.rr.com
Wed Jul 20 01:32:46 UTC 2011


FYI: GW Micro no longer services the Braille Sense. HIMS has an office in Austin, Texas. I don't yet know whether this is a good thing or a bad thing. 
Ray Wayne


----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Gilmore <m_b_gilmore at yahoo.com>
To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Date: Tuesday, Jul 19, 2011 7:59:30
Subject: Re: [bllaw] Notetakers

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> I've used the Braillenote and Pac Mate. In law school, I used the Braillenote and continue to for my own personal use. I find it very easy to use and it gets the job done for taking notes. I've never surfed the net with it, however. It's easy to type on, too. (I use the version that is set up like a Perkins rather than a laptop style. I find I can type faster in braille taking notes and can do a lot of shorthand-comespecailly since we don't spell out words.)
> Working for the Federal government, I use the Pac Mate. Again, I use the Perkins style rather than the laptop style. It's a little difficult to type on it because the keys are a little flatter than the BrailleNote and you can't type as fast on it. A lot of typos tend to be made. I would recommend the BrailleNote for personal use (home, school, etc.) As far as work, it depends on what your place of employment will purchase. Some places have a cap and won't buy the more expensive notetakers. That's why I have the Pac Mate at work. It was either that or the Braillesense (and I'm not a big fan of GW Micro. Used to be but switched to JAWS and became a Freedom Scientific guy as far as screen readers go. For notetakers and other stuff, I'm a Humanware guy.)
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> Hope this helps.
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> --- On Mon, 7/18/11, John Gardner <j_gardner09 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> From: John Gardner <j_gardner09 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [bllaw] Notetakers
> To: "blindlaw at nfbnet.org" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> Date: Monday, July 18, 2011, 7:49 PM
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> I am a criminal justice student planning on going into law. I was wondering what type of notetakers do you guys use for law school and work? What type did you guys use in law school? Is it better to have a notetaker like the apex or is it better to have like an iPhone or iPad with a Braille display via Bluetooth? Thanks for reading this. I hope to get many good ideas. Thanks for your time. I look forward to hearing from many of you.
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