So, how does the sensor know where the pen is on the piece of paper? The sensor is covered with a transparent red plastic and there are what look like IR LEDs behind a transparent part just above the pen tip. Additional refills can be purchased for $7.99 for a pack of ten. The pen comes with a trio of refills so you can continue to take notes and not throw out the pen. Those notebooks can be named anything you want, and with a tap and drag, your individual captured note pages can be moved to any notebook. It's of the skeumorphic design school, with a cherry wood bookshelf with all of your virtual notebooks. While waiting for everything to charge up, I took the time to install the free iNotebook App that provides the repository for your notes. Working life when not paired to your iPad is about 15 hours, but only about six hours when you're paired via Bluetooth. On the plus side, once both are charged up and ready to go, they'll happily wait up to 60 days for you to use them in standby mode. The pen takes about six hours to charge fully, while the sensor charges in about three and a half hours. Both have a mini-USB connector, and there's a handy two-headed charging cable included so you can charge both pieces at once. There's one negative point to using the iNotebook - both the sensor in the case and the pen need to be charged before use. There's a place for the back cover to slide into so that the paper notebook doesn't move too much while you're using it.īy subscribing, you are agreeing to Engadget's Terms and Privacy Policy. You don't need to use this particular notepad, so if you happen to be a fan of Moleskine's Professional Notebook you can drop one of those in. Inside the nice case - there are two varieties, one made of black leather, the other covered with cloth - you'll find a notepad. ![]() That's a good thing, since the iNotebook is about the size of an iPad in a case, meaning you'd have to lug around two devices. It's able to capture and store up to 100 pages of notes that can then be synced to the iPad with a touch of a button. INotebook doesn't need to be near your iPad all the time. The iNotebook (US$179.99) isn't exactly as inexpensive as a pad of paper and a regular pen or pencil, but it offers a way to capture, annotate, and organize your handwritten notes. ![]() ![]() Targus has just released an iPad accessory that may work for me (and Dave Caolo, my paper-notebook-addicted cohort here at TUAW) by letting me write on regular paper with a real pen, and capturing my notes in an iPad app. Yeah, I know - I should at least snap photos of my scrawls and upload them to Evernote, but being middle-aged, it's hard to get rid of some old habits. Despite having the latest in high technology at my fingertips, I like to take notes on good old paper.
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