So she had to take the physical notebook with her,in order to do the playback of her notes. For some reason, the pen didn’t like her computer. So she decided to install the software in her computer, to download the notes there. 2 hours wasted trying to save the damn files, or upload the pages to their cloud storage service (which is being phased out). After that, the struggle with the LiveScribe Desktop interface was too much. I think it was like 1 yr since the last time I booted Windows on that computer. The software needed update, the firmware of the pen also, which also trigger Adobe AIR updates, which required some other Win 7 updates, plus multiple reboot. And all of this after the reboot cycle from Windows due to the required updates. The interface is horribly designed, the options are not clear, and it seems that the only thing that you can do is playback of the notes. The notes were downloaded from the pen, but getting them out from the computer was not possible. Today she wanted to download some stuff from the pen and it was impossible. She uses the peb and paper playback, and never connects it to the computer. The issue is that my wife installed the software on my Win7 partition, because her laptop at the time was having some problems. It produces a pseudo PDF kind of document with the audio embedded, that can only be opened through the software. The device uses a Desktop interface(only Windows and Mac) to download the info from the pen into the computer. You want to know what that guy was saying when you wrote that word? Tap there and you’ll hear it. And the playback could be done directly with the pen and the paper. It is organized internally, according the the page number on the notebooks. The paper has recording controls printed on it and you need to tap the pen tip on those controls in order to start/stop the recording. For daily use, I guess it will become a bit expensive. Adittional notebooks with this paper could be ordered, but after 2 years if weekly meetings, my wife still have plenty from the original packaging. The only problem is that it requires a special paper, which is provided with the package. A voce recorder meeting a stylus that recognize the handwriting, but in paper. It has a camera that records everything that you write, while also recording the audio. Indeed, it did, so the device actually works. She was a PhD student and it was supposed to help her digest the large amount of information given by her research supervisor. I know that this device is quite old, but I felt the need to type this review, as an escape valve for my rage.īackground story: I bough this Smartpen as a gift for my wife. This review is just a rant caused by frustration.
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