Before we get too far, we need to answer the question, what is Livescribe.
From their website: “Livescribe brings notes, words and ideas to life. Livescribe smartpens make it easy to connect paper and pen to the digital world and fundamentally change the way people capture, access and share what they write, draw and hear. Livescribe’s family of smartpens includes the Echo smartpen, the Sky wifi smartpen and the Livescribe 3 smartpen.”
Well Outline, one of the nicer and note-taking app for the iPad, now integrates handwritten notes from the Livescribe 3 smartpen.
“With the Livescribe 3 smartpen, we designed an elegant writing solution that lets people enjoy the benefits of both physical and digital note taking,” said Gilles Bouchard, CEO of Livescribe. “With this SDK, developers and customers can use their smartpen in creative new ways. We look forward to working with premier SDK partners to give their customers a better way to capture handwriting.”
With the SDK integration, Outline now allows users to add handwritten notes using a Livescribe 3 smartpen to their digital notebooks, bringing together documents, images, photos, their own sketches and more. Note takers can enhance documents with annotations, highlighting, editing, and basic page layout within Outline. Outline for Mac is the only app which currently supports OneNote notebooks on Mac OSX, allowing people to sync their notebooks from iPad to Mac and to OneNote on a Windows PC.
Unfortunately the Livescribe 3 smartpen is available from Livescribe.com, Amazon, Apple, and others $149.95, while the Livescribe 3 Pro Edition is available for $199.95 USD.
Overall this look pretty cool but am curious how many people have his Livescribe pen.
