And the Livescribe+ app does a decent job of optical character recognition (OCR) of my words too - making the digital pages searchable. I've found the digitised images to be very accurate and readable facsimiles of my analogue scribbles.

All-in-all it feels very comfortable in my hand. This may, in no small part, be due to its light weight. Truth be told, the pen is a bit chunky, but I soon got used to its shape and I no longer notice it. In addition, the pen uses Livescribe's proprietary ink refills (67mm length and 2.35 diameter).

Like its predecessors, the Livescribe 3 needs the company's proprietary micro-dotted paper for it to do its magic, but the books are reasonably priced and widely available - or you can print your own micro-dotted paper if you wish (if your printer can manage 600dpi+). The Livescribe 3 is the latest in a series of smart pens from Livescribe. I can throw away the books I've used since June! The Livescribe+ app on my phone allows me to view the pages and books of all of my writings since I bought the pen in June. The copy is stored inside the pen, but a Bluetooth link with my Android phone (or Apple iPhone) sees the digital images transferred to my phone (either in real-time, or next time I connect the pen and phone). This is a conventional ink-based pen that writes notes in books, but its party trick is that it has a miniature infra-red camera built-in that observes my jottings and stores an electronic copy. I think I recently found a solution to my problem.īack in June I bought a Livescribe 3 digital pen. The downside of this approach is the pile of age-old notebooks that I don't want to throw away 'just in case I need them'.

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about active listening, and I mentioned that I find that note-taking helps me understand (and remember) what I am being told.

Is evernote free enough for neo n2