Great concept but too glitchy
I have owned a couple different versions of livescribe pens and the concept is great, especially for students in quick paced classes where it is difficult to get all the info, or students who have some learning needs and would like the opportunity to slow down and review material later. That being said, this app is far too glitchy for how much they are charging for the original product, which demands use of this app. While I was using yesterday it quit half way through every pen cast which means I lost all the recording I had been doing up to that point. The other pens have a way of syncing words and sounds immediately, I don't know why this app doesn't do the same because I am tired of this app glitching and thusly loosing all of my materials. Fix this problem because without this app your product is worthless. I expected better!
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Big fan of Livescribe 3 and Livescribe+!
I’ve been playing around with the latest version of Livescribe+ and I’m loving it. I’ve been using the Feed more and more -- I’m a huge fan of being able to write phone numbers, URLs, and addresses on my notebook with my Livescribe 3 pen, and then swiping to change them into text. Once my notes are in text, all I have to do is touch the phone number to add it to my Contacts or make the call, or touch the URL to launch the browser, or touch the address to launch maps. It’s truly amazing. I’ve also been recently adding photos to my Feed as well. I like how I can “flip” the photo by swiping, and then write on the back, so I can take notes about the picture – this is great for note-taking, and also makes searching a lot easier later. I’m also a huge fan of using Siri to add notes to my feed as well – very convenient. One more feature I’ve been using more and more is Pencasts - it’s so cool that I can touch any point in my notes on my iPad and iPhone, and it plays back the audio that was recorded at the time that I took the note.
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Extremely basic; poor cloud-based options.
A very basic app, in that it only captures what your LiveScribe pen writes, in black ink. There's no opportunity to change ink colour, and the app does not currently do anything with the numeric symbols (1, 2 & 3) found in the LiveScribe notebooks.
The most annoying feature is that this app provides hardly any feedback apart from the writing. For example, when using the tagging features, it would be nice if the app gave some indication that it had worked, and informed you of exactly what you have just tagged.
The app also tells you nothing about the memory usage on the pen - how do I know when the pen memory is nearly full? What happens then?
It is supposed to auto-sync to Microsoft OneNote, but I couldn't get this to work when logging in with my Office365 details. This is a shame, as I bought the "Pro" version of the pen, for professional use!
It can auto-sync to Evernote, however; it performs a one way sync - my recommendation would be to choose the PDF format.
What's really missing is backup to iCloud, which is a major failing as many iOS users will have an iCloud account.
The most annoying feature is that this app provides hardly any feedback apart from the writing. For example, when using the tagging features, it would be nice if the app gave some indication that it had worked, and informed you of exactly what you have just tagged.
The app also tells you nothing about the memory usage on the pen - how do I know when the pen memory is nearly full? What happens then?
It is supposed to auto-sync to Microsoft OneNote, but I couldn't get this to work when logging in with my Office365 details. This is a shame, as I bought the "Pro" version of the pen, for professional use!
It can auto-sync to Evernote, however; it performs a one way sync - my recommendation would be to choose the PDF format.
What's really missing is backup to iCloud, which is a major failing as many iOS users will have an iCloud account.
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Not writing into notebook
Downloaded apps, set up pen, connected, but still not working. No videos to help. Need step by step instructions on how to start & set up notebooks.
$200 wasted-do not buy this pen
I bought the Livescribe Pro edition. At first, all was well except for the fact that my notes were dated for 2019. Then an update came down and since then, I was not able to sync anything unless my app was open. THEN my pen somehow became corrupted and so CS sent me a replacement. And now? My pen won't pair with any device and the notes that I take with my $200 pen in my $25 notebook are the same notes that I would take with a Bic pen in a cheap spiral notebook. I've watched others try to deal with this through their CS support (which can only be accessed via chat or email). The result? Nada! Seems that Apple is being blamed for the delay in fixing their problem. BTW, the last update to the app was almost 3 months ago! Ridiculous. Trying to figure out how to get my money back. This is literally a rip off. I cannot believe that they are still selling this product.
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Pen is great. The app not.
I decided to revise my review and up it to four stars. I'm still not a big fan of the software, however, I've been using the pen pretty regularly for to-do's and notes, and it's working great for me.
This product is good for me because I still prefer old-fashioned pen and paper. But now my notes are backed up and searchable on my phone, and I can delete the info I no longer need.
The app does have rudimentary sorting features, but they are so poorly conceived they aren't worth the trouble.
The app will upload to Evernote and other programs, however, the data is stored as complete pages -- rather than snippets like in the app -- so very little organization is possible.
The only issue with the pen itself is the USB cap keeps falling off. The plastic part that attaches the cap to the pen seems to bend after a while, and it's not fixable. I ordered a replacement cap but the same thing happened to it.
With all that said, I'm using the pen regularly, so the pros definitely out-weigh the cons.
This product is good for me because I still prefer old-fashioned pen and paper. But now my notes are backed up and searchable on my phone, and I can delete the info I no longer need.
The app does have rudimentary sorting features, but they are so poorly conceived they aren't worth the trouble.
The app will upload to Evernote and other programs, however, the data is stored as complete pages -- rather than snippets like in the app -- so very little organization is possible.
The only issue with the pen itself is the USB cap keeps falling off. The plastic part that attaches the cap to the pen seems to bend after a while, and it's not fixable. I ordered a replacement cap but the same thing happened to it.
With all that said, I'm using the pen regularly, so the pros definitely out-weigh the cons.
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Great hardware, poor software
Quick review:
Love the pens, been using them for years now. But this latest iteration doesn't cooperate with the software as well as previous pens.
App crashes now every time I record with either of my pens. It's sluggish and doesn't do the job as advertised.
Pencasts take about 5 minutes to load, and regularly crash the app.
Most of the time the Bluetooth connection works fine, but every now and then the connection will drop.
Battery monitor often inaccurate, newly charged pen reads as empty, or nearly dead, then full, then randomly the prompt to tell the battery is almost empty will come up.
Buggy software. Please address or overhaul.
Love the pens, been using them for years now. But this latest iteration doesn't cooperate with the software as well as previous pens.
App crashes now every time I record with either of my pens. It's sluggish and doesn't do the job as advertised.
Pencasts take about 5 minutes to load, and regularly crash the app.
Most of the time the Bluetooth connection works fine, but every now and then the connection will drop.
Battery monitor often inaccurate, newly charged pen reads as empty, or nearly dead, then full, then randomly the prompt to tell the battery is almost empty will come up.
Buggy software. Please address or overhaul.
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I like the pen.
The rest is a gimmick. Tags are weird. No export to plain text, though that's what we WRITE. The "feed" is kinda handy. But ultimately, there's very little one can do with all that recorded info.
Feel a bit scammed by the app which has hardware offering so much promise!
Feel a bit scammed by the app which has hardware offering so much promise!
Could use some development
The pen works wonders but once the information captured we have to be able to put it to work.
I would love to see better OCR other than export it to a pay service like evernote (i do not like evernote).
Thanks!
I would love to see better OCR other than export it to a pay service like evernote (i do not like evernote).
Thanks!
Lots of potential, but significant reliability issues
When I first purchased the Livescribe 3, I was very excited about the product and shared it with several of my co-workers. However, after receiving my third replacement pen since January and finding that it is also defective right out of the box, I'm on the verge of giving up. Also, the OneNote synchronization was the one of the primary reasons I first purchased the pen. That worked very well for awhile, but then just stopped working and gave an error message. After multiple attempts to resolve this with customer service, I was told that the next version of the software in development would address the issue and there's not an interim fix. So great potential with this product, but clearly not ready to be released to the general market.
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