Meet Little AJ. Little AJ goes to meetings, takes notes, acts as a second pair of ears and even has a buddy, a portable PA system, named Little Soul.

Little AJ is ceremony officiant Adrienne Harrell’s Livescribe Echo smartpen that she uses to help her design custom ceremonies for her business, Soulful Ceremonies.

Adrienne has found her smartpen to be extremely useful because its audio recording capability allows to her practice active listening and re-live the experience of meeting clients when she’s reviewing her notes.

“Usually when you’re meeting with someone about a ceremony, it’s a meaningful event in their life, whether it is something happy or something a little bit more complex like a memorial or a funeral,” Adrienne explains. “With my smartpen, I can have a conversation, I can ask questions, and when people are in that moment where you just want to let them talk, I’m able to listen and absorb it, making a note or two of things I really want to remember.”

One thing she really appreciates about using the Livescribe smartpen is she can revisit how ceremony participants spoke about each other.

“If I’m trying to capture a wedding experience for someone, I can revisit how they spoke about each other in a certain way,” she explains. “When I ask, ‘How does this person express their love?’ or ‘What type of feeling do you want your guests to have when they are participating in your special day?’ I don’t just have my notes. I have the actual tone of their expression of how they are feeling, and this informs my approach to ceremony design.”

Adrienne found such success using her smartpen to design ceremonies that now she uses it at her primary job in education at the University of California for tackling day-to-day activities, while in meetings and as an example of a time-management tool to show students.

“I love Little AJ,” Adrienne says. “She helps me keep tabs on the world.”