Livescribe Echo Smartpen Review And Giveaway
If you’ve ever been in school, you know the agony of having to take notes. Whether you were using the good old pen and paper, a laptop, or even a tablet, taking notes during class can be quite an annoyance. To the rescue comes Livescribe, with its Smartpen line. It can record everything you write via an infrared camera, record anything you hear using a built-in microphone, and then combine the two into a pencast. Or so they promise. Here at MakeUseOf, we don’t believe everything we hear, and decided to see for ourselves. That’s why we bought the Livescribe 4GB Echo Smartpen, and gave it a serious spin.
Do You Need More Evernote Use Ideas? Here Are 3 Ways I Use It
Evernote is, without a doubt, a multi-faceted tool that can help you accomplish a lot, but when you have that kind of breadth in options and input channels, there’s a chance you could get overwhelmed. Fear not though, for we have many articles describing how you can use it in ways you may not have thought of yet.
Going Paperless With These 3 iPad & iPhone Handwriting Apps
Last year I wrote about a few useful handwriting iPad apps for note taking and drawing. Since then other similar apps have been developed that are just as stylish, but contain a few unique features or approaches you might might want to consider if you're looking for such a writing tool.
5 Cool Features That Prove Evernote Is Still A Kick-Ass Service
With all the hoopla surrounding Google Drive, and everyone going nuts over Dropbox, I think one other service is being sorely neglected - Evernote. Our Evernote coverage has been rather sketchy of late, and I think that's a shame because in my opinion, Evernote is one of the best services out there on the Internet. It deserves to be appreciated more.
Simplify Note-Taking & Sync Notes Everywhere With Simplenote Apps
Simplenote and its ecosystem of apps for every platform toss all the superfluous features found in competing note-taking programs and focus on the ones that matter. All Simplenote apps sync effortlessly, with minimal interfaces that don’t get in your way, easy searching, quick tagging, and excellent support for keyboard shortcuts.
Attention Grabber Note Widget Helps You Pay Attention to Your Elusive Home Screen Notes [Android 2.2+]
If you really wish to pay more attention to the todo list on your homescreen so you can eventually follow up with and cross off items off your task list, you might find the Attention Grabber Note Widget quite a welcome addition to your collection of Android apps. What makes this note app stand out from the sea of note apps?
Send Self-Destructing Messages To Your Minions With Burn Note
This message will self-destruct...". If there's one thing every kid watching spy shows dreams of, it's exploding messages that disappear forever. The explosion is cool, but so is the idea that you can send a message to your friend without anyone else ever being able to read it afterwards. Burn Note gives you exactly this functionality, albeit without the exploding tape or piece of paper.
4 Awesome Journal Apps To Write About Your Day [iPhone]
Journal and diary writing have a long rich history, and now thanks to very crafty software developers, there are digital shelves of seductively rich apps that inspire you to write down your memories and daily activities, and preserve them like cherished photo albums. If you're an always-on-the-go-mobile-device-in-your-hand kind of person, you might want to use one of the iOS journal apps described below.
Memoires: The Diary That Helps You Jot Down Your Memories on the Go [Android 1.6+]
One of the surest ways to combat writer’s block is to keep something handy when a sudden inspiration strikes you. Earlier it used to be a scrap of paper in the wallet, but lately it has been my Android phone. I bumped into Memoires. I am still holding on to Evernote, but Memoires has a few standout features that need mentioning.
Bring Sticky Notes To Your Deskop With Hott Notes [Windows]
Through the use of sticky notes, I feel like I've been able to just about double my daily productivity. Being able to have physical reminders that nagged for certain tasks to be completed was a real help when I used pen-and-paper notes. The days of pen and paper are over though, and I'm at my computer a lot more often than I am at a work desk. Eventually, I found that pinning notes to my desktop was just as effective a strategy.
3+ Stickies Shortcuts You Should Use [Mac]
Based on what I've seen, Stickies (the desktop version – not the dashboard) is a built-in Mac app that doesn't seem to get a whole lot of love. However, in all truth, it's actually an extremely useful tool whether you want to use it for a long-term project or something simply short term. As a virtual form of the standard office sticky note, it definitely packs a punch.
The Advantages Of Journal Writing On Penzu.com
I started journal writing back in the early eighties when I was in college, but haven’t really put personal thoughts to paper in the last fifteen years. After thinking long and hard about what medium I wanted to use to keep my journal, I chose Penzu.com because it offers advantages over traditional paper notebooks and even popular blog sites like Wordpress and Tumblr.
5 Ways To Kick Your Moleskine Notebook Up A Notch
Over the years, the Moleskine notebook has become a trademark staple for anyone dabbling in creative endeavors. In fact, the Moleskine is almost as iconic as the Apple laptop, the hipster glasses, and the daily visits to Starbucks. But simply having one of these notebooks won’t be enough to spark your productivity and get your steam pumping towards optimal efficiency.
Stickies - The Best Way to Keep Sticky Notes On Your Windows PC
The other day, I realized something that both shocked and delighted me. In the entire span of MakeUseOf’s existence, its authors seem to have missed one application which I deem absolutely essential to my day-to-day experience - the free and awesome Stickies by Zhorn Software. In a nutshell, it’s an application that lets you create little “sticky notes” and put them all over your screen.
Make Note Capturing Effortless Using SMS With Fetchnotes [150 Invites!]
When you think of digitizing your notes, there are a few cloud-based front runners of the digital note revolution. Aside from Reqall though, none of these apps can actually accommodate users that want to create notes the simplest (and probably fastest) way there is - SMS. Fetchnotes is a new cloud-based notepad that allows you to create notes via web and SMS.
Access Your Evernote Data With The Open Source Client Nevernote
Linux users have long been used to the fact that a lot of online services that also offers its own optional client generally doesn't have one for Linux. Instead, they have to use the service without the optional client. While using the service will still be very possible, the clients sometimes add a few nice little features that would make using the service be a tad bit easier and more enjoyable.
5 Uses for the Evernote Desktop Clients [Windows and Mac]
A couple of years ago, we had a post on the myriad uses for Evernote, which could well be an all-in-one second brain. With the advent of improvements on the desktop clients, there have been inevitably many more uses today. Thus, here are a few more tips on using the desktop clients for Evernote.
Make Your iPad A True Writing Tool With These Notebook Apps
For me, the iPad is the ultimate device for paperless reading, writing, and photo viewing. The comfortable viewing size of the iPad makes it a perfect electronic notebook for reading ebooks, PDFs, typing short emails, and viewing lots of photos. There are also some very good apps that actually allow you to use the iPad like a notepad.
How To Link MS Word 2010 To OneNote & Use It For Writing Linked Notes
MS Office 2010 adds another by letting you link MS Word 2010, and MS PowerPoint to OneNote 2010. This linking allows you to refer back to either the note or the main document by clicking on the link. This free ‘exchange’ of information makes for a great information management and research aid. But how do we set it up?