When playing back your notes on your computer or tablet (the player uses HTML5), you can click or tap on a certain sentence to jump instantly to the corresponding audio part of the interview. The Livescribe pen, the notes and the recording are not only handled by the pen, but are synced together.

Listening to the audio file is the most painful process when it comes to writing a post afterwards. When I do an interview, I usually take notes and record the audio with my iPhone. It’s just now easier to take advantage of Livescribe’s key feature.Īs a writer, I’m a natural user for this kind of device. The core idea remains using the qualities of paper to take notes and bringing them to a computer, a tablet or a phone. Yet, the Oakland-based company’s focus hasn’t changed. What was missing was filling the gap between paper and tablet,” Bouchard said. “Tablet is the best thing that has happened to us. It was the best way to bring Livescribe to a tablet. He met Evernote CEO Phil Libin ten days after starting his new job. When CEO Gilles Bouchard came to work for Livescribe, the company was already working on a WiFi version of its smartpen. Like or hate it, the new Livescribe pen is all about Evernote. See your notes on your computer, phone and tablet.Now, the pen uses and depends on Evernote for syncing and archiving notes. The two major changes are the addition of WiFi and Evernote integration. Short version: Livescribe is refining its smartpen once again.

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