Livescribe Pen
What starts on paper, doesn’t have to stay there. Livescribe smartpens bring your words & ideas into your digital world. The pen lets you write digital notes using special paper and a pen with a tiny built-in infrared camera that tracks the nib’s exact location on the page and a tiny mic that records audio as you write and plays it back later when you touch a word or sentence. It will also back up your notes to PDFs with audio.
Average retail price: €170
Online Help & Training
Echo Smartpen How to Page includes the link to download the smartpen software – Echo Desktop
Notability
A great, cheap app for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Records audio while you write as much or a little as required.Touch the text onscreen later and the audio from the moment the word was written plays. Combine handwriting, photos and typing in a single note to bring your projects to life. Use a wide range of note-taking and sketching tools to capture every detail. Use with a stylus for fast handwriting or a Bluetooth keyboard for touch typing. Cost €10 for the mobile app and €30 for the Mac version.
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Audio Note taker
Audio Notetaker offers a visual and interactive form of note taking one where audio, text and images are used to create truly comprehensive notes. Instead of the single stream of information you get with standard audio, Audio Notetaker splits your recording up into individual phrases and displays them on screen as a bar. You can then organise these bars by colour coding great sections and removing not so great sections.
Average retail price : €110 / 30 day free trial available.
Online Help & training
Click this link to learn more about Audio Notetaker at the TCD training page