Livescribe provides two ways to play back notes. The Pulse records audio with surprising clarity and directional precision the pen’s on-board microphones performed well in my tests. When you’re done recording, you tap ‘stop’. To record voice notes or lecture audio while you write, you tap the printed ‘record’ button at the bottom of your sheet of paper.
Following that, all you have to do is write.
Using printed patterns in the notebook to control the pen’s features takes a bit of learning, but figuring it out is easy after about 5 to 10 minutes of use. The page also includes various menu options for the pen, such as the screen’s brightness controller, a lefty/righty selector, and the microphone sensitivity controls.Īt the bottom of every notebook page, you can find additional navigation controls: audio controls, playback speed settings, bookmark selectors, a menu-navigation interface (which lets you select recordings for playback on the pen), and record/pause/play buttons. One is a printed calculator tapping the buttons on the page makes the answer appear on the pen’s screen. The notebooks have various tools printed on the inside cover. The IR/dotted-paper combo is the secret to navigating the pen’s menus and adjusting its settings, as well. An infrared receiver in the tip of the pen recognizes unique dot patterns on sections of each piece of paper this allows the pen to “jump” to specific moments in your note-taking history and play back lecture audio or any voice notes recorded at that time. The notebook paper has barely noticeable dot patterns that provide a grid for the pen to reference. One notebook and three ink cartridges come packaged with the pen (a four-pack of replacement notebooks is available for $20 through Livescribe’s Web site ink-cartridge refills cost $6 for a five-pack). The Pulse requires special notebooks and ink cartridges. In spite of all those features, the Pulse is only slightly thicker than the average writing instrument, about the size and thickness of a Sharpie marker. The Pulse also has a speaker and a 2.5mm headphone jack (earbuds come with the device). Unlike Iogear’s Mobile Digital Scribe, the Pulse has a built-in OLED display that’s about 2 inches long and displays one line of text. The Pulse also lets you view handwritten notes on a computer interface, but it doesn’t provide a way to convert those notes to plain text.
Iogear’s pen focuses solely on capturing handwritten notes and converting them to standard keyboard text, while Livescribe’s Pulse records sounds (your voice, or that of a lecturer, say) through integrated stereo microphones and then creates audio notes that it “ties” to your written notes. The Mobile Digital Scribe and the Livescribe Pulse are actually entirely different animals.
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