livescribe sky & evernote

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Posted by jimspoon
Oct 30, 2012 at 05:42 AM

some here might be interested in this ... I’m interested in the technology, but I wouldn’t have much use for the product.

The Livescribe Sky pen is a note-taker’s new must-have tool | The Verge - http://tmpl.at/QRl1rI

Posted by Pavi
Oct 30, 2012 at 06:48 AM

Hi, I left a detailed review of their previous pen, the Echo. I just wanted to make a few comments:

I tried using a capacitive pen with my Nexus 7 for notetaking. It is not quite there, although a tablet with an active digitizer and/or specialized stylus might finally bridge the level to “almost there”, ie. enough to ditch the pen and paper (maybe Galaxy Note 2, etc). Having said that, the Livescribe is still absolutely required, for me anyway, for seminar and conference note taking. The only weakness in my opinion is that you cannot create searchable PDFs of your handwriting, although you can make them OCRed and searchable with Evernote. I don’t use Evernote, or rather I use it locally only as I don’t like cloud storage without safety measures.

This change to wifi/Evernote only is an extremely smart business decision for Livescribe, for the reason that as stated above newer technology is close to making their solution obsolete. This provides an integrated solution that keeps them in the game.

Having said that, I would still recommend the Echo, which is much cheaper and probably will get cheaper yet with this release. The Livescribe desktop is not cumbersome at all, and plugging in your pen, selecting notes to export and renaming them goes very fast. I export to windows and then link them into Ultra Recall. For those integrated into Evernote, it also allows you to export there as well.

Really you couldn’t go wrong with either pen, although if you are cloud adverse, really stick with the Echo (preferably 4 GB for the rubberized grip - 2 GB is enough memory). If you favor convenience, and use Evernote, the Sky is probably a better choice.

Best, /Pavi

jimspoon wrote:
>some here might be interested in this ... I’m interested in the technology, but I
>wouldn’t have much use for the product.
> >The Livescribe Sky pen is a note-taker’s new
>must-have tool | The Verge - http://tmpl.at/QRl1rI

Posted by jimspoon
Nov 2, 2012 at 02:16 AM

here’s another review

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2411149,00.asp

Posted by quant
Nov 3, 2012 at 08:38 PM

i like the idea, would buy it if:
- it was much smaller
- i could use the sound recording in business meetings, sound recording is prohibited where i work

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