I love using a Livescribe pen, and having an entire meeting recorded as both notes and audio has saved me more than once. More recently Livescribe made it possible for users to send text and audio to a variety of sources including Evernote. When notes and audio you’ve recreated on your computer, tapping on any word in your notes plays the audio that was being said as that note was written. The pen also have a high quality microphone that records that is said while you are taking notes, and there is more. Instead, all the text is recorded on the pen and recreated on your desktop. That means you never have to take your Livescribe notebook with you when, for example, you leave the office. Then, once you plug your smartpen into your computer and launch the Livescribe software, the text is recreated electronically. When you write with the special Livescribe pen (you can purchase various forms of Livescribe paper and notebooks or print your own), the pen records the strokes.

The Livescribe smartpen is a large pen with a traditional ink cartridge in its tip it that takes writing to an entirely new level, thanks to the inclusion of a small camera sensor that also sits in the tip. If you aren’t familiar with the Livescribe smartpen system, let me offer a simple description. My Livescribe smartpen is so much a part of my workflow that I simply take it for granted. It has been a while since I have written about my Livescribe smartpen, but that doesn’t mean I rely on it any less. In fact, my experience has actually the opposite.

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