You are at an important meeting or lecture.
And you’re jotting down notes to remind you of what is being said.
Now imagine that three months later, what was said at that meeting become of vital importance to you.
So you just go back to the notes you made, touch your pen onto the notes you made, and you immediately hear the actual words that were being spoken while you were making the notes.
Magic? – Pretty much!. but that’s just one example of what you can do with the Livescribe “Pulse” Smartpen.
you can also:
- Upload your notes to your computer.
- Use livescribe’s text recognition feature to turn your notes into a text document
- Upload your notes online, so that others can see what you wrote, and hear what was going on as you wrote it.
It’s great for little tutorials like this one.
Managing Multiple Email accounts – LIVESCRIBE version.
You can maximise it, and you’ll see many options for viewing it.
You can even print out the page in PDF format as a reference.
Let me know what you think of this Livescribe format.
It’s pretty close to what I do with Individual clients with pen and paper as I explain things to them.
I then give them the page to keep as a reference.
They tell me that even after many months, they can just look at the page, and they remember our discussion and everything we discussed comes to life for them again.
(sometimes I also give them a printed sheet of notes, or a chart, but they say that the hand drawn notes that THEY have been involved with creating is much better)
cheers,
Eric G.
The Livescribe Pulse pen is available at Officeworks. there’s 1 gigabyte and 2 gigabyte versions. (I recommend the 2 gigabyte version. It will hold enough audio for about 200 pages of notes.)
(EDIT Feb 2010: 4 gig version available now. )
The number of pages you can put on your computer is only limited by its capacity.
The Livescribe pen uses special paper to track the position of the pen and sync it with the audio. 4 x 200 page books come with the pen, and additional books are available for $40 for a pack of 4.
(Or you can print out the special paper yourself if you have a postscript printer)
This is one of the most useful gadgets I’ve ever seen, with countless uses. Just make sure you are aware of any privacy implications, and that you get people’s permission to record if applicable.
Regards,
EricG.
