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Toward the end of my college career I fell in love with my LiveScribe. You might hear an aside in a lecture about X, and you could simply write X in your notebo
by devin 11y ago
Toward the end of my college career I fell in love with my LiveScribe. You might hear an aside in a lecture about X, and you could simply write X in your notebook. Later on, you could search your notes for X, and if you were wondering what exactly was said about X, you can tap on that note to hear what was happening in the lecture at that point in time.
Later on, Y might be brought up in relation to X. Write Y in the notebook, and draw a line to X, and so on.
I am not much of a note taker nowadays, but I highly recommend trying out the LiveScribe. I am considering buying a new one just to see how things have progressed.
- cstross 11y agoLivescribe's developers pivoted. The original model was positioned as an app platform -- the OLED screen, the downloadable extras. It was a bit clumsy and annoying (and had a steep learning curve). I recently bought the Livescribe+. It cut back on features but made the core functionality work a lot better. Charges over micro-USB (like everything else these days), can run on generic pen refils. No apps, but realtime streaming to your phone (iOS or Android) over Bluetooth. It can still do pencasts/audio recording (but doesn't give you a headset so you can replay audio notes on the pen itself -- it's not a true dictation machine). In other words, it does more by doing less (but doing it better).
- matthewmcg 11y agoSecond this. The OLED screen conked out on my WiFi-enabled Sky pen and they sent me a free + model. I love it for all the reasons you've listed.