![]() Host a live session––called a Note Stream––with remote colleagues and friends by streaming your paper or whiteboard notes. Annotate, insert photographs, record audio, resize sketches, and more. Customize your notes using different pen colors, line thicknesses, and various backgrounds. Use a variety of tools and colors to highlight key ideas. Notes can be digitally reviewed, edited and enhanced on the fly, or later, when it’s convenient. If you order via Equil’s Indiegogo page (which has already shot way past its goal) you can get it for a cool $109.Equil Note is the ultimate note-taking app for everyone who wants to capture, enhance, stream, share, and organize their paper and whiteboard notes: business professionals, educators and students, parents and homemakers, designers and project managers, and more!Įquil Note, when used with Equil Smartpen and Equil Smartmarker, lets you write notes and diagram ideas on any paper or whiteboard surface––and save them to your favorite device in real-time. Still, that device costs $30 more than the Equil’s $169 MSRP and is aimed at designers and artists hooked into Adobe’s Creative Cloud, not anyone who simply wants to save their physical notes and doodles. It’s a pretty slick package, though I do wish that Equil had taken the brushed aluminum design of Adobe’s stylus for its pen, as that simply felt far better in the hand in terms of touch and weight. ![]() In terms of design, the Equil Smartpen 2 seems to draw inspiration from Adobe’s Ink & Slide and from Apple’s folding iPad screen covers. I figured that it was as good a time as any to test the Equil out, and while I can’t share a copy of my notes, I’ll just say that the text the mobile app got from my handwriting is more readable than the un-autocorrected transcripts that usually end up in my Evernote account. I couldn’t go in without a way to take notes, but I hate having to keep a piece of paper around for when I get around to writing up the post. ![]() After several reboot attempts, I had to give up, as I had a call to be briefed by a startup on upcoming news. I got to the office, and my work laptop (running Mac OS X Yosemite) decided it didn’t feel like letting me log in. This morning, a not-so-fun set of coincidences led to me putting the Equil through its paces in a real-life work situation. The transcription Equil’s software provides isn’t always perfect (as you can see in the video above, where I had to fix a few typos), but if you’re the kind of person who simply has to write down notes by hand, it’s nice to know there’s a copy of your work beyond the easily-lost piece of paper you wrote it on. In concert with its mobile and desktop apps, you can jot down notes, get a PDF-scan quality copy, convert what you wrote into plain text, and upload to Evernote in a matter of minutes. It gives you a Bluetooth-connected pen, a charging case, and a little receiver unit that actually records what you write from the edge of whatever paper you’re jotting things down on. ![]() The Equil Smartpen 2 is the latest gadget to fall into the latter camp. The tech industry has responded with various gadgets targeted at those who prefer taking notes the old-fashioned way, from tablets oriented around using a stylus (hello, Surface!) to so-called “smartpens” capable of recording what you write as you write it, saving you the effort of snapping a photo of your notes when you’re done. Despite the convenience of jotting down notes into text files that can be saved to the cloud, many still prefer jotting down their thoughts or quotes from meetings with a physical pen and a piece of paper. ![]()
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