I have been playing with something roughly along the same lines, but
I'm a more concrete example kind of person.  Recently, I bought an old
233 mhz tablet computer to see what kind of fun I could have being
wireless and mobile.  The tablet came with a separate keyboard, but for
the purpose of being very mobile, I decided that an on-screen keyboard
would work better.  To do the virtual paper thing in Squeak, a first
attempt led me to try a BookMorph.  This seems to do a fair job,
although there is no intelligence behind it, as there might be with
something like Jacaranda.  The next thing I need to do is add a Genie
gesture to bring up a new PaintInvokingMorph to fill the pages of the
BookMorph a bit quicker.

Even though I am using Genie for "control" gestures, I opted to not use
it for text recognition, preferring instead the on-screen keyboard, or
just straight painting.  So far, this is working pretty well.

Gary McGovern wrote:
>My personal preference would be a device that I don't think exists
>yet. At home when I do rough drafts and designs etc, I find it awkward
>to work with one screen.
>
>Instead I use a spiral A4 paper pad of 150 pages and ink pen and
>figure things out before I go to the computer. I like to leaf through
>pages and go back and forth and so on.
>
>HPs research into reusable paper gave me the idea that a computerised
>version couldn't be that far away. A computerised pen based version
>with its own OS that could make the 150 hard pages into into infinite
>pages.


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