® User Guide
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CONTENTS About This Release....................................................................................................5 Getting Help ...............................................................................................................6 Contacting Customer Service........................................................................................................7 Saving Data for Customer Ser vice................................................................................
Browsing Audio Recordings ........................................................................................28 Playing Audio Recordings in Audio View.....................................................................28 Page Turning................................................................................................................29 Using Audio Controls...................................................................................................29 Scrubbing an Audio Recording........
ABOUT THIS RELEASE This release of the Livescribe Platform includes new features and enhancements, corrected issues, and usability improvements. Version numbers for this release are: • Smartpen Firmware, Version 2.9.9 or later • Echo Desktop for Windows, Version 3.0 • Echo Desktop for Mac, Version 3.0 edug6.0.2 Livescribe, Inc.
GETTING HELP Livescribe provides several ways for you to learn more about the Livescribe Platform and get expert help when you need it. On the Livescribe Support page, you can find several ways to get answers to any questions you might have about your smartpen or other Livescribe products. To open the Livescribe Support page: • From a web browser, go to www.livescribe.com/support, or • Within Echo Desktop, go to the Help menu. You can view release notes fo r all Livescribe products here:www.livescribe.
CONTACTING CUSTOMER SERVICE If you cannot find the answers to your questions using the Support page, please contact Customer Service directly. You can reach Customer Service in the following ways: • Go to www.livescribe.com/support, complete a Customer Service ticket and submit it. • Email Customer Service at: CS@livescribe.com SAVING DATA FOR CUSTOMER SERVICE If you are experiencing problems with an Echo Desktop product, you should gather data from your installation for Customer Service. 1.
RETURNING LIVESCRIBE PRODUCTS If you need to return the Livescribe smartpen or other Livescribe product, fo llow the instructions below. ITEMS PURCHASED DIRECTLY FROM LIVESCRIBE Items purchased directly from Livescribe have the following return time-frame to qualify for a refund. Items returned after this timefra me are not accepted or credited: • Hardware: 30 days. • Accessories: 30 days Livescribe refunds the full amount paid minus shipping on any item(s) returned within the allowable time.
Echo Desktop User Guide
ECHO DESKTOP USER GUIDE ABOUT ECHO DESKTOP Echo Desktop is software that runs on your computer to view and listen to the content you create and capture using your Smartpen. With Echo Desktop, you can view your notes, listen to your recorded audio, and more. Using Echo Desktop, you can: • Save and search notes, and play back audio recordings and pencasts from your computer. • Search your handwritten notes. • Organize and manage your notes. • Export and share your notes and audio recordings.
GETTING STARTED WITH ECHO DESKTOP (WINDOWS) GETTING STARTED WITH ECHO DESKTOP (WINDOWS) If this is the first time you are installing Echo Desktop, follow these steps. 1. Verify that your computer meets the software and hardware requirements for Echo Desktop. 2. Download the Echo Desktop installer from www.livescribe.com/install. 3. Open the installer and follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.
ECHO DESKTOP USER GUIDE You can use Echo Desktop on as many computers as you like, and you can use as many smartpens as you like with them. When authorizing Echo Desktop and registering your smartpens, use the same email address and password for all of them. UNINSTALLING ECHO DESKTOP You can uninstall Echo Desktop from your computer. 1. In the Control Panel, locate and double-click on Add or Remove Programs. The Echo Desktop installer prompts you to confirm the removal of the app. 2. Click Yes to proceed.
GETTING STARTED WITH ECHO DESKTOP (WINDOWS) CONFIGURING ECHO DESKTOP SETTINGS With the User Settings fe ature, you can set your preferences for Echo Desktop app, the interaction of Echo Desktop with the smartpen, and how you want to show pages in Echo Desktop. To set user preferences: 1. Go to Tools > User Settings 2. Navigate through the tabs to set your preferences as described below. APP SETTINGS Use the Applications tab to set preferences for the Echo Desktop app.
ECHO DESKTOP USER GUIDE GETTING STARTED WITH ECHO DESKTOP (MAC) You can install Echo Desktop on one or more computers. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Before installing Echo Desktop, ensure your computer meets or exceeds the system requirements. Echo Desktop requires: • Intel-based Mac with Mac OS ® X 10.8.5, and above • 300 MB of free disk space • USB 2.
GETTING STARTED WITH ECHO DESKTOP (MAC) and register your smartpens, you use the same email address and password as your Livescribe Online account. SWITCHING FROM WINDOWS TO MAC If you have been using your Echo Desktop for Windows, and you want to switch to Echo Desktop for Mac, dock your smartpen to your Macintosh after installing Echo Desktop. This automatically copies your content. To switch to Echo Desktop for Mac from Windows: 1. Install and launch Echo Desktop on your Macintosh. Follow the steps in .
ECHO DESKTOP USER GUIDE CHECKING FOR ECHO DESKTOP UPDATES If you are connected to the Internet, Echo Desktop automatically checks the Livescribe website to see if your version of Echo Desktop is current, and if the software and firmware on your smartpen are up to date. If your system needs updates, Echo Desktop prompts you to update now or later. It is good practice to accept the updates available for both Echo Desktop and your Livescribe smarten. If you are currently using any version earlier than 2.
GETTING STARTED WITH ECHO DESKTOP (MAC) 5. In the Software Update section, specify how Echo Desktop checks for updates of software and firmware. edug6.0.2 Livescribe, Inc.
ECHO DESKTOP USER GUIDE VIEWING NOTES AND PLAYING BACK AUDIO IN ECHO DESKTOP In Echo Desktop, you can view your notes and play back audio recordings made with the smartpen. In Echo Desktop, notes that have linked audio appear as green ink. To listen to audio recordings that are linked to your notes, click on the green ink with your mouse. Clicking green ink in Echo Desktop is similar to tapping a note in our y paper notebook. Both actions begin audio playback.
ECHO DESKTOP BASICS ECHO DESKTOP BASICS Echo Desktop provides views, menus, toolbars, and controls you can use to view and manage notes and audio transferred from your smartpen. RUNNING ECHO DESKTOP To run Echo Desktop and tra nsfer notes and audio from your smartpen, follow these steps. Use only the connector that came with your product: the Micro-USB cable for Echo smartpens or the USB Mobile charging cradle for Pulse smartpens.
ECHO DESKTOP USER GUIDE ECHO DESKTOP VIEWS Echo Desktop has the following views and panes. Echo Desktop for Windows screenshots are shown below. Pages View Pages View is the default Echo Desktop view. Echo Desktop shows Livescribe notebook pages as thumbnails. 20 Livescribe, Inc. ©2007-2015 edug6.0.
ECHO DESKTOP BASICS Single-Page View Single-Page View shows individual pages. Click on green ink to play back audio recordings linked to the page. Audio View In Audio View, you can view a list of your audio recordings. In this view, you can also play back recorded audio, and share. edug6.0.2 Livescribe, Inc.
ECHO DESKTOP USER GUIDE Livescribe Store Clicking the Livescribe Store tab launches your web browser to the Livescribe store, where you can order new notebooks, ink refills, and the like. Smartpen Manager The Smartpen Manager is or f viewing, installing, and uninstalling smartpen software. Viewing Pane The Viewing Pane is the central area where you view and interact with your notes. For example, this pane is where you view your notes. 22 Livescribe, Inc. ©2007-2015 edug6.0.
ECHO DESKTOP BASICS Navigation Pane Echo Desktop provides a Navigation Pane on the left side of the Viewing Pane. The Navigation Pane lists items that you can navigate to or view in more detail in the Viewing Pane. For example, clicking one of the notebooks in the Navigation Pane opens the notebook and shows all its pages in the Viewing Pane. Using the Navigation Pane, you can view your library of notebooks and view pages that contain search results. The Navigation Pane uses tabs to organize its content.
ECHO DESKTOP USER GUIDE LIVESCRIBE NOTEBOOK CONTROLS Livescribe Notebook Controls are for paging through notebooks, zooming pages, and toggling between Single-Page and Thumbnail Views. LIVESCRIBE PDF CONTROLS Livescribe PDF Controls are located at the bottom of the Echo Desktop screen. This toolbar is for controlling playback of recorded audio. MEMORY BAR The Memory Bar in Smartpen Manager shows the storage state of your smartpen. 24 Livescribe, Inc. ©2007-2015 edug6.0.
VIEWING NOTES VIEWING NOTES With Echo Desktop, you can view notes transferred from your smartpen. VIEWING PAGES In Pages View, you can see all your pages at once as thumbnails. You can open them to full size. You can click on green active ink to hear the audio captured with your notes. Click back to the single page button to view the selected thumbnail as a single page, enlarged to fit the Viewing Pane. Use Control-click to select multiple, non-sequential thumbnails.
ECHO DESKTOP USER GUIDE SEARCHING NOTES With Echo Desktop, you can search notes transferred from your smartpen. SEARCHING PAGES You can search notes written in cursive, print, or a combination. Your search text can be part of a word, a whole word, or consecutive words. SEARCH FOR A WHOLE WORD 1. Type search text into the search text box Toolbar. in the Main By default, this search method finds whole words in the currently-selected notebook or journal.
SEARCHING NOTES When Search finds one or more hits (text matches), it shows the results in the Search tab in the Navigation Pane. Echo Desktop shows thumbnails of the pages where it found the search text. The results remain within the Search tab until you either initiate another search or close the tab. The Search tab holds one set of search results at a time. To view one of the search result pages, click on its thumbnail in the Search tab.
ECHO DESKTOP USER GUIDE PLAYING BACK AUDIO With Echo Desktop, you can play back audio transferred from your smartpen. BROWSING AUDIO RECORDINGS To view a list of all audio recordings: • Click the Audio button ( Win ) or Pencasts button ( Mac ). This opens the Audio View and brings up a list of all audio recordings. When you view audio recordings as a list, Echo Desktop shows the audio recordings as a series of rows with named columns.
PLAYING BACK AUDIO PAGE TURNING If you play back an audio recording that spans multiple pages, Echo Desktop automatically moves to successive pages in real time synchronization with the playing audio. This automatic paging continues until you manually switch pages using Paging Controls. From then on, the paging is under manual control only until you play back another audio recording. If you added notes while playing back an audio recording, Echo Desktop sho ws this ink as green, by default.
ECHO DESKTOP USER GUIDE SCRUBBING AN AUDIO RECORDING Single-Page View, while you listen to an audio recording and view its pages, move the audio timeline slider to reposition the audio playback. When you move the slider and audio is playing, the audio and its active ink move to the corresponding timeline position. This process is scrubbing the audio. You can use this feature to move forward or backward to a specific area of your audio recording and see how it corresponds to your written notes.
PRINTING PRINTING With Echo Desktop, you can print notes transferred from your smartpen. You can also print your own Livescribe Dot Paper notepads. PRINTING A SINGLE PAGE You can print pages from your Livescribe Dot Paper. Although clickable ink appears as green in the Central Viewing Pane, Echo Desktop prints it in black, just like regular ink. Your printed page does not interact with your smartpen. 1. View a page as a single page, or view all pages as thumbnails. 2. Select one or more pages. 3.
ECHO DESKTOP USER GUIDE PRINTING A NOTEPAD 1. Choose Tools > Printable Notepads and select a notepad to print such as Notepad 1 (25 pages). 2. In the Print dialog, specify a ra nge of pages to print or accept the defa ult. Click Print. Echo Desktop prints a notepad. You can use the notepad just like any other Livescribe Dot paper. When you dock your smartpen after writing on this notepad, your content transfers like it does with pre-printed Livescribe note-books and journals. 32 Livescribe, Inc.
ORGANIZING NOTES AND AUDIO ORGANIZING NOTES AND AUDIO With Echo Desktop, you can organize notes and audio transferred from your smartpen. CREATING A CUSTOM NOTEBOOK You can create Custom Notebooks in Echo Desktop to organize and better manage your pages. You can add pages from any notebook, and drag them to arrange them in any order within a Custom Notebook. Pages in a Custom Notebook work like other notebook pages. For example, you can view, zoom, search, and print pages.
ECHO DESKTOP USER GUIDE DELETING A CUSTOM NOTEBOOK You can delete an entire Custom Notebook or pages from a Custom Notebook. Doing so does not affect the source notebooks or their pages. Delete Custom Notebooks or their pages in one of the following ways. • Select a Custom Notebook in your notebook library. Then select File > Delete Notebook. • Open a Custom Notebook in Pages View and select one or more pages. Then select File > Delete Pages. 34 Livescribe, Inc. ©2007-2015 edug6.0.
SHARING YOUR NOTES AND AUDIO SHARING YOUR NOTES AND AUDIO You can share notes and audio with other people, even those who do not have a Livescribe smartpen or Echo Desktop. To share, you export Notes and Audio, Pages Only, or Audio Only, and send the resulting file to another person. LIVESCRIBE PDF Pencasts (notes and audio together) are always shared as Livescribe PDFs.
ECHO DESKTOP USER GUIDE ECHO DESKTOP AND OLDER SHARING FORMATS Installing Echo Desktop replaces any Livescribe Desktop software that may be installed on your computer. Existing notes and audio from Livescribe Desktop will be preserved, and you can access them from Echo Desktop. Files in the .pencast of rmat can be imported into Echo Desktop, as described below. HOW TO SHARE NOTES AND AUDIO For sharing, you have two options.
MANAGING STORAGE FOR ECHO DESKTOP AND YOUR SMARTPEN MANAGING STORAGE FOR ECHO DESKTOP AND YOUR SMARTPEN With Echo Desktop, you can manage its storage of notes and audio, and the storage on your smartpen. FREEING SPACE ON YOUR SMARTPEN Your smartpen uses flash storage to store your notes and audio. Recorded audio requires the most space. If you are running out of space on your smartpen, then can delete these audio recordings.
ECHO DESKTOP USER GUIDE 3. Choose File > Remove Audio from Smartpen. 4. To confirm the removal, click OK, otherwise click Cancel. To remove all audio from your smartpen for a specific Livescribe Dot Paper product, use the Archive feature. You can also delete an audio recording from Echo Desktop. DELETING AUDIO FROM ECHO DESKTOP You can delete audio recordings from Echo Desktop. Deleting audio from Echo Desktop does not affect your smartpen: 1. Click the Audio button.
MANAGING STORAGE FOR ECHO DESKTOP AND YOUR SMARTPEN MAINTAINING SMARTPEN CONTENT ON MULTIPLE COMPUTERS You can copy your smartpen content to any computer that has Echo Desktop. If you choose to tra nsfer content to multiple computers, be sure to dock the smartpen and transfer your data to each computer on a regular basis. Also, every time you delete data from Echo Desktop or archive a notebook, be sure to do the same operations on your other computers.
ECHO DESKTOP USER GUIDE ARCHIVING LIVESCRIBE NOTEBOOKS ON WINDOWS When you have finished using a Livescribe notebook or other paper product, you should archive it in Echo Desktop. ARCHIVING LIVESCRIBE NOTEBOOKS Archiving a Livescribe notebook does the following: • Frees up storage space on your smartpen • Enables you to use another Livescribe notebook that has the same dot pattern as the one you archived. Livescribe Dot Paper products with the same dot pattern have the same name.
ARCHIVING LIVESCRIBE NOTEBOOKS ON WINDOWS 5. When prompted, click OK to confirm the archive operation, otherwise click Cancel. 6. When prompted, click Archive this notebook, otherwise click Cancel. 7. Echo Desktop confirms your notebook is archived, and you see the archived notebook in your Library tab in an Archived Notebooks group. If you are using multiple computers, be sure to archive the notebook on each of them. DELETING ARCHIVED NOTEBOOKS FROM ECHO DESKTOP 1.
ECHO DESKTOP USER GUIDE MANAGING YOUR SMARTPEN With Echo Desktop, you can manage properties of your smartpen, including registration, naming, and Paper Replay password. REGISTERING YOUR SMARTPEN It is important that you register your smartpen. Registering your smartpen provides enhanced security for your smartpen data and gives you access to special promotional offers. Follow the registration prompts when you dock your smartpen.
MANAGING YOUR SMARTPEN To remove a password using Echo Desktop: 1. Launch Echo Desktop. 2. Dock your smartpen. 3. Choose Tools > Smartpen > Clear Paper Replay Password. 4. Confirm the password is cleared by playing back a Paper Replay audio recording on your smartpen. If the password is cleared, you can play back audio recordings without writing the password first. Paper Replay Password does not prevent playback from Echo Desktop, only from your smartpen.
ECHO DESKTOP USER GUIDE MANAGING SMARTPEN SOFTWARE AND APPS You can install and update smartpen software using Echo Desktop. INSTALLING SMARTPEN SOFTWARE UPDATES Livescribe periodically updates smartpen firmware, features, and Livescribe notebooks and other paper products. When you launch Echo Desktop, it checks for available updates. You can also manually check for updates using Echo Desktop.
GLOSSARY 3-D Recording Headset Earphones with embedded microphones that capture multi-directional, far-field audio and place objects in the sound landscape surrounding you. Archiving The process of moving your notes and audio for a Livescribe notebook or other paper product into an Archived Notebooks folder in the Navigation Pane. This process also deletes your notes (ink data) and audio from the Livescribe smartpen.
GLOSSARY Linking Associating a Livescribe smartpen to an instance of Echo Desktop. Echo Desktop Software that runs on your computer to view and listen to the content you capture using a smartpen. View your notes, listen to recorded audio, manage apps, and more. Livescribe+ The mobile app that plays Livescribe PDFs (on Apple Mobile dev ices). Watch the notes change color in sync with the playing audio.
Paper Replay Password Paper Replay Password sets a password for your Paper Replay sessions. Setting a password can prevent others from listening to your recorded audio on your smartpen. Pencast A pencast is the combination of your notes with the associated audio. When you activate the notes by tapping (smartpen or Livescribe+) or clicking (Echo Desktop, Livescribe Player, ), you are "playing" a pencast. Pencasts can be shared with others as a Livescribe PDF.
GLOSSARY USB mobile charging cradle A cradle that charges and connects a Livescribe smartpen to your computer. 48 Livescribe, Inc. ©2007-2015 edug6.0.
