Despite the changing culture of note-taking, where technology platforms have almost absolute power, some people still like to use good old paper for ideas. But even though the proverbial paper carries everything, we know that even water can wash away all our notes. That's why Moleskine developed the Livescribe notebook, which combines the best of both worlds. Ancient recording on paper and synchronous transcription into digital format (with simultaneous backup in the application).
Moleskine is known for notebooks and planners par excellence, which carry a piece of another time. Paper is therefore their bread. And although many say that the paper does not write anything good, he has not yet lost the war with screens.
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So Moleskine is not against digitization, but wants to preserve it the culture of writing down on paper. That's why he came up with a compromise that works for him Livescribe Notebook. If you ask at the Adobe offices, you'll get an unequivocal answer. The future of sketching laying in tablets, so there is no point in resisting because it will only get worse for those who don't convert fast enough. But Moleskine offered an alternative future, a middle way, perhaps not so much because he wanted to save paper, but at least to smooth the transition from one format to another. The Livescribe Notebook, which you can get for as little as €22.75, outwardly works like a classic Moleskine notebook, with the important difference that if you use smart pen Livescribe 3 (€113.95), all your moves are saved on application and translate into the language spoken by technology (writing and graphics programs).
It said programmed so that it always recognizes position on paper Livescribe notes where you can find at the bottom of each sheet symbols, similar to those in gmail (star, flag, tag), which open up options that normal paper cannot handle. Thus, for example, you can you also add to the sketch audio commentary, not just side notes, but you do this by using the "play", "pause" and "record" characters.
You can read more about Livescribe Notebook here: Moleskine
You can find more about the pen here: Livescribe
