The new Echo line is slimmer than previous models, but it’s still pretty thick, and that can have a real impact on your personal comfort as you use it. I’d offer this one caveat to anyone looking at a Livescribe smartpen: Hold one in your hand before you buy. While these features may not be enough to push a casual user over the fence, there’s not much down side to getting the added features for free. More importantly, you get the ability to allow others to read and edit your notes via Evernote’s sharing feature, which can great for team collaboration. You can upload any type of file, rather than the standard Evernote-centric fare. With a premium Evernote account, you get a gigabyte of monthly data uploads, rather than the measly 60MB. What makes this announcement from Livescribe worth noting is that it’s a good opportunity for Evernote users to bump their account up to the next level. It’s like living in the 20 th Century all over again, only with full digital recall. Increasingly, I’m finding myself carrying nothing but a pen and notepad to a meeting, leaving the laptop or tablet at my desk. As a frequent user of both Evernote and Google Docs, I’ve been pretty impressed by Livescribe Connect, since it lets me scribble notes quickly during a meeting, then sync them quickly to Evernote the next time I’m at my PC. In May, Livescribe beefed up its software with a tool called Livescribe Connect, which automatically sends your smartpen notes as e-mail, uploads them to Evernote, posts them to Facebook, or syncs them to Google Docs. (Read PCWorld’s full review of the Livescibe Echo smartpen.)
It can also record audio as you write, which makes it great for taking notes in meetings or classes. As you write, the sensor knows what you’re writing based on the movement of the dots in its view. The paper has tiny little dots on it that are read by an optical sensor in the pen. The upshot is that they track everything you write on the special Livescribe Dot paper.
I’ve used them on and off over the last couple of years, and they’re rapidly growing on me. If you’re a productivity geek who still loves pen-and-paper systems, the Livescribe Echo smartpens are really worth a try.
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