{"id":206,"date":"2011-12-13T12:19:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T17:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/?p=206"},"modified":"2014-08-07T19:39:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T23:39:57","slug":"livescribe-vs-wacom-inkling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/2011\/12\/livescribe-vs-wacom-inkling\/","title":{"rendered":"livescribe vs. Wacom Inkling"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had a livescribe pulse<\/a> since it came out more than three years ago. \u00a0Just yesterday my pre-order of the Wacom Inkling<\/a> pen came in from Amazon. \u00a0So now I’ve got something to compare the livescribe to. \u00a0Really, though, there isn’t much comparison. \u00a0Livescribe wins, handily.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. livescribe is more accurate, especially out at the edges of the pages<\/li>\n
  2. livescribe software is much better — the inkling software is bare bones to say the least; to wit, livescribe has search, Inkling’s Sketch Manager does not. \u00a0livescribe software knows about the ordering of pages, Inkling does not. \u00a0The list goes on and on.<\/li>\n
  3. livescribe is much cheaper — half price, really.<\/li>\n
  4. livescribe is easier to carry around: with the livescribe, you carry a pen and notebook just as you would need to otherwise. \u00a0With Inkling, you need to carry an extra receiver that you need to clip on to whatever you write with.<\/li>\n
  5. livescribe records audio, giving you a whole dimension of context you just don’t get with Inkling.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I can see how the inkling, with its pressure sensitivity, etc. could be useful for artists. \u00a0But for a scientist, engineer, student, journalist, or anyone else really other than an artist, the livescribe is a far superior product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’ve had a livescribe pulse for years and just got a Wacom Inkling to compare. The results are in: for anyone that is not an artist, the livescribe is far superior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,31],"tags":[33,32,34],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-internet","category-gadgets","tag-inkling","tag-livescribe","tag-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3ictG-3k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":123,"url":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/the-end-of-an-era\/","url_meta":{"origin":206,"position":0},"title":"The End of an Era","author":"john","date":"April 26, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"After something like 5 years on the MSN (now Windows Live) Messenger Team, I'm moving to a new role at Microsoft. Messenger is one of my favorite products in the world, the team is absolutely great to work with, and we're working on what I think is our most exciting\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 1 comment","block_context":{"text":"With 1 comment","link":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/the-end-of-an-era\/#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":59,"url":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/2005\/07\/msn-golf-2005\/","url_meta":{"origin":206,"position":1},"title":"MSN Golf 2005","author":"john","date":"July 26, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"We had our annual golf outing today. Was great fun. Pictures over in the photo album. \u00a0 I've got some good videos, too, that I'll upload as soon as I get some software to rotate them so they're upright.","rel":"","context":"In "Games"","block_context":{"text":"Games","link":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/category\/games\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":114,"url":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/2006\/10\/oh-boy-oh-boy\/","url_meta":{"origin":206,"position":2},"title":"Oh Boy Oh Boy","author":"john","date":"October 31, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The new MacBook Pros with Core 2 Duo chips came out last week. I've been wanting one since God knows when, so I bought one. I ordered it last Thursday for something like $2600. 2.33GHz of dual core goodness, an ATI Radeon 1600 mobility graphics card with 256MB video ram\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":126,"url":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/crazy-vegas\/","url_meta":{"origin":206,"position":3},"title":"Crazy Vegas","author":"john","date":"May 2, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Last night was the MIX party at PURE at Caesar's Palace. It was pretty sweet. Definitely too crowded, but I guess that's just the way it goes when you tell 1500 software developers that they can have free drinks and see the Pussycat Dolls. Anyway, the craziest part was that\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":77,"url":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/2004\/12\/ddr-for-exercise\/","url_meta":{"origin":206,"position":4},"title":"DDR for Exercise","author":"john","date":"December 22, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Ok, so this Polar S410 heart rate monitor is pretty cool. I wear a band around my chest when I work out that has electrodes on it and also a watch. The watch receives the heart rate measurements as I go and stores them in its very limited memory. I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Health and wellness"","block_context":{"text":"Health and wellness","link":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/category\/health-and-wellness\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":294,"url":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/2014\/02\/setting-new-mac-redux\/","url_meta":{"origin":206,"position":5},"title":"Setting Up A New Mac Redux","author":"john","date":"February 26, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Since I get new Macs somewhat more regularly than most folks and since I want a consistent work \/ productivity environment across all of them, I have gotten a pretty decent way set up for going from zero to hero on a new, tabula rasa Mac. It basically comes down\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Computers and Internet"","block_context":{"text":"Computers and Internet","link":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/category\/computers-and-internet\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}