Just wanted to mention two quick items: The first being that, by the time I got my lovely pink netbook I had forgotten the login and password for my livescribe online login. I was perplexed, I was put-out, I was pretty upset (anyone want to supply a "p" word for that last?).
Worried, I wrote to the tech support folks at livescribe and within 24 hours (would have been sooner if I checked email more often) was all set up to use the netbook with my pen and upload as desired to the web. So a big THANK YOU and thumbs up to the folks at livescribe.com for helping me and being ready to run interference on even the little things.
The other item about Livescribe is that I used it ALL DAY on Saturday to take notes at a conference I attended. Three hour-and-a-half sessions of workshops. I normally use it for lectures at the college, and did use it on the two-day retreat, though the format there required less writing so it wasn't a big deal. It worked just as well for the extended use two days ago, with a caveat: the barrel is just too big around for my hand. Just so you know, from base of the palm to the longest fingertip, my hand is 6" long; four inches side-to-side. I think the people who designed the livescribe pen must have standard adult hands... longer and wider. By the end of the day, my writing hand was cramping quite a bit. I will write to them about this.
My hope is that a subsequent version will have a narrower barrel, with a softer gripping end so that all-day use is more comfortable. I would even be happy if the pen had less memory (it holds 2G) just so I could use it longer in the day. I would also, though this is probably highly individual, like to see it offered in pink...
Worried, I wrote to the tech support folks at livescribe and within 24 hours (would have been sooner if I checked email more often) was all set up to use the netbook with my pen and upload as desired to the web. So a big THANK YOU and thumbs up to the folks at livescribe.com for helping me and being ready to run interference on even the little things.
The other item about Livescribe is that I used it ALL DAY on Saturday to take notes at a conference I attended. Three hour-and-a-half sessions of workshops. I normally use it for lectures at the college, and did use it on the two-day retreat, though the format there required less writing so it wasn't a big deal. It worked just as well for the extended use two days ago, with a caveat: the barrel is just too big around for my hand. Just so you know, from base of the palm to the longest fingertip, my hand is 6" long; four inches side-to-side. I think the people who designed the livescribe pen must have standard adult hands... longer and wider. By the end of the day, my writing hand was cramping quite a bit. I will write to them about this.
My hope is that a subsequent version will have a narrower barrel, with a softer gripping end so that all-day use is more comfortable. I would even be happy if the pen had less memory (it holds 2G) just so I could use it longer in the day. I would also, though this is probably highly individual, like to see it offered in pink...
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