Glossary

Earphones with embedded microphones that capture multi-directional, far-field audio and place objects in the sound landscape surrounding you.

Notes, drawings, or other markings made by a Livescribe smartpen on Livescribe Dot paper that are linked to recorded audio. By default, active ink is displayed as green in Livescribe Desktop. See inactive ink.

The process of moving your notes and audio for a Livescribe Dot Paper product into an Archived Notebooks folder in the Navigation Pane. This process also deletes your notes (ink data) and audio from the Livescribe smartpen. Because of this, the Livescribe smartpen no longer interacts with the physical Livescribe Dot Paper product that you archived.

Sound of any kind that is captured by the Livescribe smartpen microphone.

Sessions presented as a list of files with details about each.

Connecting a Livescribe smartpen to a personal computer by inserting the smartpen into its charging cradle (for Pulse smartpens) or Micro-USB cable (for Echo smartpens).

Receiving content from a remote location, such as the internet.

Software that manages the internal operations of a smartpen.

Non-volatile storage of computer files, not dependent on electric charge. Sometimes referred to as memory.

Flick and Scrub is a feature that enables fast scrolling through menu items and other displayed text on the Livescribe smartpen. This feature is useful when text presented by an App is longer than the display can show horizontally or when multiple menus, options, or items are available vertically.

A smartpen state in which no apps are running and the smartpen screen shows the current time and battery status. From Home, you can capture notes and invoke Launch Line. At any time, you can return your smartpen to the Home state by tapping on a Home button. This quits all currently-running apps and returns the smartpen to the Home screen.

At any time, you can return your smartpen to the Home state by tapping on a Home button. This quits all currently-running apps and returns the smartpen to the Home screen. Home buttons are printed in most Livescribe Dot Paper products. In older paper products, the Home button is a light circle just above and to the right of the Nav Plus. In newer paper products, the Home button is a icon in the shape of a house.

Notes, drawings, or other markings made by a Livescribe smartpen on Livescribe Dot Paper that are not linked to recorded audio. By default, inactive ink is displayed as black in Livescribe Desktop. See active ink

The markings of the Livescribe smartpen ballpoint on Livescribe Dot Paper. See active ink and inactive ink.

You can use Launch Line to quickly launch any Open Paper App installed on your smartpen. Open Paper Apps are Apps that do not require pre-printed paper controls to function. See tap around.

Associating a Livescribe smartpen to an instance of Livescribe Desktop.

Software that runs on your computer in tandem with Livescribe Desktop to send selected notes and audio recordings to a variety of destinations, including Facebook, GoogleDocs, Email, your MyLivescribe space, and more.

Software that runs on your smartpen that enables you to tap-select pages on your notebook to send them to target destinations when you dock your smartpen to your computer.

Software that runs on your computer to view and listen to the content you capture using a smartpen. View your notes, listen to recorded audio, manage apps, and more.

Plain paper printed with microdots that enable interactivity with Livescribe smartpens.The microdots enable Livescribe smartpens to recognize and respond to areas on a page, and link handwritten notes to recorded audio.

Pen-based computers with advanced processing power, audio and visual feedback, and substantial storage. Smartpens digitally-capture written notes and can record audio using the Paper Replay smartpen app.

LThe Livescribe website where you can upload and share content to your own MyLivescribe space, and purchase new apps, smartpens, paper products, and accessories. Users can store up to 500 MB of notes and audio.

Software Developer Kits for app developers to create, publish, and sell smartpen apps and create desktop apps that can interact with smartpen content.

The basic unit of Livescribe Dot Paper: a small, light-gray circular marking that is arranged with others like it into millions of patterns. These are printed on Livescribe paper products for use with the Livescribe smartpen.

500 MB of personal space on Livescribe Online for smartpen users to store and share notes.

A pre-printed or hand-drawn plus sign that lets you navigate the Livescribe smartpen Apps and files.

An elliptical paper seal that prevents a Livescribe paper product from being opened until detached by the owner. This label defines the product status (paper type and series number), so you can be aware of potential conflict with paper products of the same status that are already in use.

Anything written or drawn on Livescribe Dot Paper.

18pixel x 98pixel Organic Light Emitting Diode display screen of the Livescribe smartpen.

Smartpen Apps that do not require pre-printed paper controls to function. Examples of these Apps are Piano, Translator Demo, and many Apps on the Livescribe Online Store.

A view in Livescribe Desktop that displays notebook pages. Notes are shown as active ink if they are linked audio.

An App that associates what you write on paper to audio you record.

Paper Replay Password sets a password for your Paper Replay sessions. Setting a password can prevent others from listening to your recorded audio on your smartpen.

Pencasting is a general term for exporting smartpen content. Pencasting and is how you share your smartpen content with others. You can pencast smartpen content to your computer or to Livescribe Online.

when you tap your notes to play back audio, it plays from a moment five seconds before the note was actually written. This feature allows you to more accurately replay the audio because there is natural delay between the time when you hear an important point and the time when you begin writing notes.

Settings of Livescribe Desktop that conform to your way of working.

A single, complete audio recording. A session always contains audio and optionally can contain linked written notes (pages).

Buttons on some paper products represented as numbers inside circles. Each number corresponds to a different Shortcut Button. You can assign each button to launch an app or a shortcut.

Shortcuts are words you can write to launch an app and invoke a particular feature of that app. For example, writing the word play as a shortcut launches Paper Replay and invokes the play session command. Connect Desktop provides built-in shortcuts as well, like email, pdf, Evernote. Writing these words shortcuts launches the corresponding commands on your smartpen. You can also create custom shortcuts for Connect commands.

A shortcut for battery, version, date, and other information about the smartpen.

Tap around is a feature of Launch Line that is an alternate to using the Nav Plus to navigate menus of an App.

A view in Livescribe Desktop that shows thumbnail representations of pages.

Copying notes and audio from a Livescribe smartpen to a computer using Livescribe Desktop.

Installing a new version of software or firmware via Livescribe Desktop to your computer or smartpen.

Sending data to a remote location, such as the web.

Universal Serial Bus, a standard for wired connection between personal computers and peripheral devices like printers and the Livescribe smartpen.

A cradle that charges and connects a Livescribe smartpen to your computer.

The process or magnifying or reducing pages in Livescribe Desktop.