In short, Sky is still aimed at folks who’d rather write with a ballpoint pen than type on a real or on-screen QWERTY keyboard, and who don’t find the need for special paper to be too much of a hassle. The Sky can also interact with printed or hand-written controls on its special paper, such as “Record,” “Play” and “Stop” buttons. It all gets synchronized, so if you’ve been taking notes during a class or meeting, you can tap on a word and listen to the recording for that precise moment. The pen is also a capable audio recorder, and you can capture sound as you write. (It comes with a 50-page notebook more paper is available from Livescribe, and you can print out pages on a color laser printer.) It doesn’t convert your handwritten jottings into editable text everything is saved to Evernote precisely as you wrote it, in your handwriting. You use the Sky with paper printed with a fine grid of dots, which lets the pen capture and digitize what you’ve written and/or drawn. I found the review unit Livescribe provided to be comfortable enough to hold despite its bulk, but its odd cap is surprisingly tough to put on and take off. As before, the pen is a cigar-like ballpoint with an OLED screen on the side and a Micro USB port for charging. The basic smartpen concept hasn’t changed. If you’ve got a device that Evernote supports - and it supports just about everything - your Livescribe notes, sketches and recordings will just be there once the pen has synced, which it does without your intervention. The Sky also introduces a software change which is just as significant: Instead of depending on its own proprietary software, it simply plunks everything into Evernote, the omnipresent note-taking app/service which Livescribe says a majority of its customers already use. It’s introducing a new flagship model, the Sky, and the major improvement to the hardware is that the pen now incorporates built-in wi-fi, eliminating the need to do transfers via USB. Now Livescribe has a smartpen in tune with the times. And we’ve come to expect that most gadgets can connect directly to the internet, without a computer as a mandatory middleman. These days, busy people of the sort whom Livescribe targets don’t always spend as much time at a PC as they once did they might want to get their notes and audio onto a phone or tablet instead. That’s how you tended to get data off a gizmo in those days.īut an awful lot has happened in five years. And the fact that you did the syncing with a USB cable and special software (available at first only for Windows, and then the Mac) seemed only natural. When preview strokes are disabled, there will be no grayed out text.Follow Livescribe introduced its first unique smartpen back in 2007, its core feature - the ability to take notes on special paper, with synchronized audio, and then transfer everything onto a computer - was cool. When preview strokes are enabled, there will be grayed out writing on the page, previewing what will eventually be. The settings button, as show in the orange box below, will open the settings menu.įrom the settings menu, the user can change the color of the pen, and enable or disable preview strokes and page turn. Click the arrow buttons to the right of the line to jump 10 seconds forwards or backwards. Click anywhere on the timeline to jump to that point in the recording. To the right of the play button are the playback navigation tools. The play button, shown below in the orange box below, will play both the audio recorded as well as the recording of what was written. Either drag the saved PDF file into the selection box or navigate to the PDF. Click here (to open the Livescribe player. Click "continue" to save the sessions as a PDF file on the computer.Ħ. The user will be prompted with a settings menu. Click "share to" and choose computer.Ĭlick here for instructions on how to name a session.ĥ. From the starter notebook (or the name of the notebook you are using to record with), drag the appropriate session to the custom notebook.Ĥ. Clicking the text will prompt the user to name the notebook, make sure it is specific enough to keep the sessions organized.ģ. To create a custom notebook, click "Create a New Custom Notebook", as shown in the the orange box below. To keep sessions organized, the software allows for the creation of custom notebooks. The user can see that the sessions are being uploaded in the notification bar, as shown below in the orange box.Ģ. Do not disconnect the smartpen from the computer while it is transferring the recorded sessions to the computer. The smartpen will automatically upload recorded sessions to the software. Open Echo Desktop (click here for more information on Echo Desktop). Connect the smartpen to the computer through the micro-USB wire. Livescribe Echo Smartpen - Exporting & Displayingġ.
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