A cool new tool to digitise your doodles

For those who prefer to write with pen and paper but would still like to be able to back up their notes and ideas digitally, there’s now an elegant solution.

Milan-based manufacturer of luxury notebooks and other paper products, Moleskine’s latest digital adventure, aptly named the Smart Writing Set, is a journal-and-ink set that records your scribblings as you put them on the page. This notebook — proper name, the Paper Tablet — is made with technically advanced paper that has code built into its pages.

The Pen (technically, the Pen+), records such data as the page number and the word’s exact location on the page. It’s a real pen, with real ink, used as any writing implement is. But it has an added flash drive function (hook it up to your phone, computer, or tablet and download) and a tiny camera, too, which documents every stroke, thick or thin. A free-to-download app then transforms your thoughts and doodles into files. If you want to e-mail a page to someone, simply click on the envelope icon on each paper page. Share with one or with many — how you do that is up to you.

The new set is the next generation digital product from Moleskine. It has developed smart notebooks in recent years with Evernote that require snapping a photo of a page and transmitting via an Evernote app. Early steps in this direction also included the LiveScribe Notebook by Moleskine, with similar functionality.

This is just the tool for people who like hand writing in journals but want to keep their memories safe in case a notebook gets lost or damaged. It's also great for the constantly scrawling and regularly losing sorts out there—or those who'd rather write, not type.

Source | Financial Chronicle | 4 May 2016

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