#ECHO LIVESCRIBE DESKTOP FULL#
#ECHO LIVESCRIBE DESKTOP SOFTWARE#

Overall, as someone with a lifetime of note-taking experience, there's very little you need to do to accommodate the Echo. If you fill up a notebook page and turn to a new one, the Echo recognizes the new page and notes it as a separate file in its memory. For example, when you go back to listen to a recording and have more ideas to jot down, the Echo will associate your new notes to the playback position of your old audio. Yes, it really works-and it's smarter than you think. Even if the ink never meets the paper, the pen can still work as voice recorder, allowing you to review the meeting using the pause, skip, scrubber, and playback speed icons on the bottom of the page. Tap the doodle of the airplane you made when the boss was boring you with sales figures, and you've got a recording of all the yawn-inducing details in case you ever need them. Tap a different word, and you'll hear a different place in the recording. Each note you tap causes the pen to play back an audio recording of exactly what was being spoken when the note was made.

The magic trick plays out like this: you arrive at a meeting, tap the record icon in your dot paper notebook, write down a few bullet points, and then perform an instant replay of the meeting by tapping your notes with the pen. The core feature of the Echo smartpen is called Paper Replay, and it has a tendency to make people's jaws drop when they see it in action.

#ECHO LIVESCRIBE DESKTOP SOFTWARE#

The Livescribe desktop software allows you to review synchronized audio and video animations of your notes, and export them to PDF, audio file, or Pencast file.

#ECHO LIVESCRIBE DESKTOP FULL#

Using automatic mic level and low audio quality, we had no problems getting through a workday's worth of testing from a full charge. Microphone sensitivity is also adjustable, with settings for room, hall, and automatic. Battery performance will depend on the quality of the audio recordings you're making, which are adjustable from low, medium, and high. The Echo draws its power from an internal rechargeable battery, which will require regular recharging. Two ink refills come included, and five-packs can be obtained for as little as $5, but you do tend to run out of ink faster than you would with a conventional pen. Also, to fit an OLED screen, speaker, microphone, memory, and other electronic components into the reasonably-sized, 6-inch-long pen, Livescribe uses ink cartridge refills that are shorter than usual. There are a few catches, such as the special 'dot paper' required for the pen to capture your handwriting (a 50-sheet spiral notebook is included, with additional notebooks available for around $5 each).

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