Taking handwritten notes on digital devices

Posted by Paul Korm
Apr 5, 2018 at 12:42 PM

I used LiveScribe for a while then stopped because I wasn’t actually making much use of digital notebooks, they were only searchable within their app, the supplies were expensive, pens broke, and the software stopped working. It probably would have been a good technology for it’s originally-advertised purpose of note taking in lectures, with the ability to record audio and sync it with the notes. I never used it for that purpose, though.

Technology always ages out so I don’t see myself returning again to a proprietary device.

For document markup, the iPad Pro + Pencil is great.

For extensive note taking, nothing beats a good notebook and a nice pen. If I really need a digital copy, I snap the notebook pages with Scanbot and save the PDF.