Nokia N810: Trying Xournal
Xournal was one of many unofficial ports to Maemo made by volunteers. That’s, by the way, what Nokia intended by choosing Linux and Open Source for their Internet Tablets; they placed their bet on enthusiast developers porting a wide range of applications to their devices. A noble effort and a winning idea that, sadly, didn’t take off.
Xournal is a note-taking application designed for tablet PCs and touch-enabled computers. It’s pretty nifty. I did a lot of searching to find the .deb package with no success until I read it was never released for Diablo but for Chinook. I had to look for its dependencies and the dependencies of its dependencies. My prize was a running, working version of Xournal!
It works quite well, a bit slow, but very usable. I’m still tweaking and using it, with more seriousness than I did back in the day. The Nokia N810’s screen, while resistive, is very responsive. And, unlike a smartphone doing smart guesses for fat fingers, the N810 can handle more precise input from its thin built-in stylus.
Will this be the «killer app» for my N810? A quick, handy, note taking tool. As someone who prefers writing on paper, this is a nice alternative.
No need for an N810, you can try Xournal++, its successor, on Linux, Windows and MacOS!