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Summary: Note Keeping Simplified
Review: I was very impressed with how easy this pen was to set up and how quickly it learned my style of writing. As a clergy person I attend several meetings a day, taking notes and trying to keep them organized for filing and for follow up with e-mail etc. I often find myself sorting through papers and note pads trying to find the notes I took on a particular subject etc. Now the process has been made a single rather than a multiple entry process. With this pen, notes are stored on my computer simply by placing the pen in its cradle. From there the notes are very simple to organize and now the "stack" of paper on my desk remains under control for just one notebook (digital paper) will do the job. Depending upon the type of entry selected by touching a point on the paper, notes can be addressed for e-mailing, making calendar entries (both using Outlook,)filing as a Word document or sending a post-it note reminder to your desktop. After downloading the notes, etc., by cradling the pen the correct software is loaded: Outlook for calendar, notes and/or e-mail (all ready to ready to deliver), Word files to store, etc., with just some minor tweeking all is ready for sending to the right destination. I also travel and attend regional meetings. This handy little tool makes followup upon returning home a breeze. This pen is a necessity for those who depend heavily upon their note taking in any line of work. Life is now made simpler with the Logitec io! It is a heart to heart meeting between the world of paper and the digital world.
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Summary: Works for me
Review: I work as a salesperson and frequently take notes in the field based on client visits and phone calls. The question becomes, what do I do with all of it? Either I leave it in my notebooks, and worry about losing / damaging them, or I get home and re-type them every single night. Or I get a $2000 tablet. That's what I thought until I saw this. Now I have to admit, I was reluctant at first. I had a terrible experience with Logitech before involving their Bluetooth headset. It didn't work well. They said I could return it without an RMA. I did. Then they said I had been misinformed and did need an RMA. Tech support and customer service pointed fingers at each other for weeks. In the end, I spent $100 and had nothing. Nice. Well, this is a good segue into one of the drawbacks to this pen - customer support. See, I can't figure out how to have multiple pages in the same file. You know, you take notes on several pages and want them all to be in the same file. Sounds easy, right? Well, there were no directions (online or hard copy) to address this. So, I wrote customer service. I got an auto-email stating that I would have a reply within 24 hours. After two weeks, I have never heard from Logitech. In short, their customer service is abismal. If you buy this, do so in spite of customer support, not because of it. How does it work? Pretty well! But understand that the pen is fairly big (doesn't bother me). Also, I am not interested in handwriting recognition (mine is way too sloppy to allow this function). On that note, handwriting recognition is limited. Ones and I's are very often confused. But this pen accomplishes my simple, single objective - to take notes and have them upload into a Word document. That's all. No text editing. No hand writing recognition. So, if that sounds good to you, you'll be happy with this pen, just don't expect much help from Logitech customer service.
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Summary: Eliminates the pile of memopad sheets & post-its
Review: I'm a lawyer. When clients would call for quick discussions, I'd grab a pen and post-it pad or memo pad, whatever was near the phone, and jot down notes. These would just grow into a stack near my monitor, and I'd have to throw them loose into my working file. Now I keep the io and an io post-it pad next to the phone, and no more stack, which is a huge annoyance eliminated.
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Summary: Logitech "Beta" Io Digital Pen
Review: It took less than an hour for me to decide that Logitech has a way to go before releasing this as anything than a beta. The ICR function, even after training 4x's more than suggested, still mixed up all of my vowels. The restricted spaces you must write in are far to small to use quickly. It never did interface with any of my office programs. When I asked it to create a to do or a calander entry it pretty much ignored me. When trying to contact support, the auto return said they get back to me in two business days. For almost two hundred dollars, and the need to write only on a certain type of paper, makes this product undesirable for our needs.
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Summary: IT DOESN'T WORK
Review: It's no use whatsoever to claim how wonderful this product is and how clever it is to have a pen that "remembers" what it writes, when the damned thing DOES NOT WORK. I'd installed the NET framework necessary, followed all the directions in order (including trying to "train" the pen to recognise my handwriting), and even re-installed the software several times. It DOES NOT WORK. Oh, the pen vibrates and blinks different colours, in the order it's supposed to, as IF it were working, but it does not DOWNLOAD anything. I'd even double-checked that the drivers were loaded, re-set the pen (then did a hard re-set), etc., and all in the right order. And guess what? That's right. It doesn't work. What's the use of having an interesting concept for a product and interesting looking product, when IT DOESN'T WORK?
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Summary: Logitech io Digital Pen reviewed
Review: Logitech has produced a truly innovative product, the io Digital Pen. Rather than struggle in the effort to create a paperless society, many companies have tried in the past decade, Logitech is trying to marry the two technologies. The io Digital Pen is a great idea, targeted specifically for students and designers who do a lot of writing and sketching, but still find having a digital copy of their document handy. Its features as a pen are great, however, the digital aspect still requires some work. Read on to see what we thought of the pen...
(full review @ bytesector.com)
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Summary: Short of the Chat Pen
Review: Logitech IO is based on the Anoto system ...The problem with this pen is that it does not contain the bluetooth wireless connectivity that the SonyEricsson Chatpen does which would make it universally usable anywhere. Who wants to drag the Cradle around?
Letter recognition can be done through Windows'/Office's own Document Imaging, so that solves that problem. The paper will not be much more expensive than most other paper. Afterall it is regular paper with a fine dot system printed on it. You will even be able to print it yourself with a regular ink-jet printer, should the need arise...
The pen is a step in the 'write' direction as another reviewer mentioned, yet we are still waiting for the heavy-weights to bring their pens out. For the pen to be more usable, it NEEDS to be wireless, without silly download-cradles.
Good for the the person that just uses it around the house...
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Summary: It's a money saver because it's a time saver!
Review: LOVE this product and wish I'd bought it months ago. I long ago decided to always write notes in a single notepad (as opposed to pieces of paper all over the desk) so that ideas, notes from client phone calls and meetings, etc., wouldn't constantly get lost. At the end of the day (or, more likely, the week) I would transcribe everything from the book into the computer. I don't type,so transcribing notes at the end of the day is extremely time consuming. With this product I can upload it all into the computer and not even have to page thru the notebook to find things. Better yet, the software lets you split up a page into sections and save them as separate files. I can save the files into client folders in the computer (and even into ACT) which gives me documentation and history of meetings, comments etc in each client folder. The paper may be high, but I feel like my time costs more and this product saves me time in a big way.
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Summary: Works... but big, conpicuous, and geeky
Review: So I've been using my Logitech io pen at work for a week now. It works fine. Installation was easy. Viewing the notes is simple. Converting notes to a Microsoft Word image (not OCR -- I didn't buy the OCR software) is simple. Docking station is convenient. Carrying a pen and notebook into a meeting is much easier than carrying a laptop. (Technical note: I'm using the newer, version 2 of the Logitech io software.) So why three stars? First, the pen is huge. About six inches long and 3/4" of an inch in diameter. If you're in a meeting taking notes, you get a lot of stares from co-workers what the heck you're holding. Kind of disconcerting. And I work at a software company in Silicon Valley where there are plenty of early adopters. Anyhow, people invariably ask for a demo, during which they are pretty surprised at how it works. After surprise comes judgement -- people either think it's cool or think it's a very stupid, geekly gadget. One co-worker thought it was very cool and wanted to buy one for her husband. Several folks just roll their eyes. I just want a pen that gets notes onto my PC, not to feel like I have the 21st century equivalent of a pocket protector. Logitech needs to make the pen smaller and less conspicuous. Until they do, I fear that this product will not make it through the "chasm" and make it to mainstream success, as the iPod, Blackberry, Palm Pilot, and Canon Digital Elph all have done. Form factor matters as much as functionality, and the io is not quite there in its form factor. It's too big. Logitech, please make it smaller! So, if you see a "like new" io pen being sold in the near future, it might be mine.
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Summary: IE & .NET are showstoppers for this product
Review: Thanks to the user who pointed out that this pen product requires Internet Explorer and .NET framework. Like that user, I have misgivings about both of these add-ons to Windows, and won't install them on my machine. As a result, I can't use this pen. Too bad. It sounds like a useful tool for my work, but it's not worth the security exposure that it comes with.
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