Getting more out of your day is an obsession to the team here and when we took delivery of the Livescribe Pulse a couple of months ago – it really didn’t get much better. This is definitely one of the coolest gadgets known to man. It  was actually launched in the middle of last year – but is really starting to get traction now, especially with the launch of Mac support just before Christmas.

So what’s it all about and how does it make you more productive? Well, it records your notes and doodles in two different ways:

1) It creates digital copies of everything you scribe by hand on that age old medium – paper… whilst you’re scribbling.

2) It will also record audio at the same time so that you can then quickly access that audio at the relevant point of your note taking.

Once you’ve finished taking your notes – you then upload the digital version onto your PC where the included Livescribe Pulse software goes on to archive your notes and here’s the really cool part – makes them completely searchable, as it converts your scribbles to text.

As an added extra – just if that wasn’t enough – it provides you with a calculator, translator and … a piano

It uses specially formatted, dotted paper so that it recognises where you are drawing on the page, so that it can then recreate things digitally. You can print your own – or buy from their site of course. Printing your own is going to save you in the long run.

For a full review with images, take a look here, or at this Youtube video for some of the Livescribe Pulse promo material . For other ways technology can help you on the subject of increasing workplace productivity, take a look here.

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