Livescribe Smart Pen, A Review
As a gadget freak ordered this Livescribe Smart Pen quickly. Deliverance went smooth and quick. I have been using this pen for a while now, mostly with intakes, meetings, symposium and courses. It’s wonderful. For instance an intake will take about one hour. This only takes 10 MB on my 1 GB pen, so up to 10 hours of recording.
You have to get used to using only catchwords. In the beginning I wrote a lot of text which isn’t necessary. Just some catchwords will do and it will also save you some paper. You have to use a special kind of paper: Dot Paper, which can also be copied as I understood from some forums but haven’t tried yet. With catchwords the expenditure of paper is very low.
The desktop is very easy to use, you can archive your recordings but especially intakes are quickly deleted by me from pen and desktop for privacy reasons. From comments there were some starting problems with the delivery of the Livescribe Smart Pen but they have been solved since the new site for Europe of Livescribe. For US and UK readers visit Livescribe.com, some very instructive video’s at hand. The battery is easily charged and it took me two weeks before I had to recharge it.
I bought some notebooks since these are easier to carry. Be sure to use one at a time, otherwise the recordings get mixed up.
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August 26, 2009 @ 5:30 am
wow! what a great little gadget! my guy will love it!
August 21, 2010 @ 2:29 am
I realize that this review is old, and the pen has been recently upgraded, but… am wondering how this pen might help me (practice of psychotherapy) become a bit more “paperless.”
Are you still using the pen, and finding it really helpful? Can you imagine it being useful in a psychotherapy practice, for note-taking and file keeping?
Thanks in advance for any comment or advice!
August 21, 2010 @ 4:26 pm
It’s very useful for note taking in psychotherapy. I also use it for meetings. Afterwards you can download and archive on your computer. Several colleagues and even journalists are using it no. Take care Dr Shock
August 26, 2010 @ 6:21 am
Is this device still in the early adopter phase. If I buy the paper from livescribe can I take notes and have it easily transcribed to text and then easily store in ms word or pdf? My intakes are currently done via secure email and digitized. I would like to both record sessions and take process notes.
Thanks
August 26, 2010 @ 12:29 pm
This device is not in early adopter phase. For your question about word, please see this link:
http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/CSKBPortalPage
For more instructions and possibilities please see:
http://www.livescribe.com/nl/starthere/index.html
Take care, Dr Shock
January 13, 2011 @ 8:48 pm
I am a retired MD. Just got this device after seeing my daughter use it at Xmas time. This is a natural way for doctors in office environment to move into electronic medical recording. When my internist rolled in with his computer on a cart he could not look at me for queries etc. With this pen one could do it “freehand” or better yet, devise office note forms with pre-printed SOAP types of sections. With Myscribe to convert it would be very easy to move notes into an electronic form.
January 14, 2011 @ 9:57 pm
That would verfspuit be great. Myscribe didn’t work for me, I’ve à terrible handwriting.
March 21, 2011 @ 6:40 pm
Do you get a separate Permission form from the client when you use the Livescribe?
Thanks!
Jan
March 21, 2011 @ 9:14 pm
No, but I do ask them permission and write their answer down in their dossier