Not only will it detect each line, dot, and stroke, by the way, it will also detect how much pressure you apply, so it can differentiate between thick lines and thin ones, correctly reflecting that in the digital copy. Do note, you will need to press the button each time you change the page to ensure it saves the individual pages correctly. Once you’re finished with a page, you need to press a button on the clipboard, which prompts it to store your note or sketch on the app. You place the pad on the clipboard, pair the system with the companion app (Android and iOS), and work your magic with the pen. The Bamboo Slate consists of a smart pen, a clipboard that holds your notes, a companion app, and a sheet of pad. $169.00 Buy on Amazon Wacom Bamboo Slate and Folio Even better, it supports text recognition in over 27 languages, so you can have all your notes saved in text format, allowing you to integrate it into documents, reports, and other written materials. The pen works for both text and illustrations, so your handwritten notes, mind maps, charts, and sketches can all be immediately converted to images and stored to any of the supported cloud services, with no need to manually scan any page. From there, you can sync the stored data to the companion app, where it will be translated to the exact things you put down on paper in digital form.
When used with one of the outfit’s microdot-printed notebooks, every line, stroke, and dot you execute gets stored into its onboard memory, which has enough room for up to 1,200 A4 pages’ worth of notes and doodles. This smart pen works in conjunction with any Livescribe notebook and a companion app to automatically store everything you do on the analog paper into a digital counterpart. $32.00 −$9.79 $22.21 Buy on Amazon Livescribe Symphony Pen Simply put, it’s a whole lot of utility at a very affordable price. The best part? Not only is it the cheapest alternative out there, it’s also endlessly reusable (just wipe the pages clean and it’s new again), with only FriXion pen refills serving as a recurring cost. Some page layouts even include a title bar that you can fill in with the filename you want the scan to be saved as, making it even easier to organize your note archives. It supports most of the popular platforms out there for storing notes, including Dropbox, OneNote, Evernote, Google Drive, Box, and a whole host of others. Even better, each page has icons at the bottom that you can mark to tell the app the exact folder on any specific platform you want to store it, so it’s automatically sent to your notes app of choice, making it extremely easy to catalog compared to manually scanning and organizing everything. What they all have in common, however, is that they’re completely erasable (when used with a Pilot FriXion pen) and easily scanned into digital form using the Rocketbook app (iOS and Android), allowing you to quickly digitize pages using your smartphone. Rocketbook makes a variety of notebook products, each one with different binding systems and page layouts to cover different types of needs.
Here are some of the best options in the category.
They allow you to continue using analog stationery products like it’s 1985, while digitizing them for easier integration into your 21 st century digital life. It worked well enough for the most part, but still required you to take a few hours (or longer) every so often just to digitize a bunch of notes.įortunately, a new generation of notebook-and-pen combinations have been developed with digital content in mind.
Smart notes notebook software#
Whichever the case, some people are just more comfortable working with good old pen-and-paper.įor a time, people who wanted to stick with pen and paper, but still wanted the benefits of digitally-archived notes had to scan their notebooks page by page, then either save each as a JPEG or run each one through an OCR software to convert them to digital text. Or maybe it’s just a habit that they’ve developed over the years.
Maybe, it’s the intuitiveness of the actions. Problem is, some people just write better on physical stationery. That’s a good thing, since digitized notes spars you from having to keep dozens upon dozens of notebooks over time, all while having easy, searchable access to everything you’ve written down. Many people have replaced their pens and notebooks with a tablet-and-stylus combo.
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