The Pen You Need to Have → Misc
For the last few weeks I have been in charge of promoting a product for Videopro, a client of ours who we built and manage a ecommerce website for that sells audio visual and computer solutions. The product I am talking about is the Livescribe 2GB Pulse Smart Pen.
In the beginning, my initial thoughts were that the price tag on the Livescribe Smart Pen was incredibly high for a pen, that was until I learnt a bit more about it. Because I was in charge of promoting the pen, like any good salesman you need to know a bit about what you are promoting, and so began reading into the features. I found a promotional video on youtube and after watching the video I instantly became interested. I convinced my boss to order one for the office and now we use it for all of our meetings.
The pen is pretty much a microcomputer that allows you to record while you are writing, so that you can listen to what you were hearing at the time of writing the notes. What it also does is link what you were writing to what you were hearing, so when you are revising your notes after your meeting, you can listen to what you were hearing when you were writing a particular sentence, so if that sentence doesn’t make sense or was written to messily, no problem, you can hear what was being said at the time.
The pen also has the ability to be plugged into your PC. After a meeting I can plug it into my computer which backs up my notes, and displays them as if I typed them onto the computer. There is also a search feature that allows me to search for a keyword that I wrote when writing my notes. You have to admit that is pretty handy!
The pen software will run both on Windows and Mac, and is something I definitely recommend for anyone who takes notes regularly. Even for someone is is perfect at taking notes, there are always times when your notes in sections are not so clear.
