Livescribe PULSE - Manual (Page 15)

Chapter 2: 1BUsing Your Pulse Smartpen Page 15
Pulse smartpen precisely tracks its own movement on paper. As a result, anything you write –
words, numbers or drawings – can be stored, recognized, and intelligently responded to.
The area of the entire Anoto dot pattern is huge, and represents a piece of paper the combined
size of Europe and Asia. Livescribe dot paper is based on a subset of the entire Anoto dot
pattern.
How the Pulse Smartpen Works
When you power on the Pulse smartpen and begin writing on Livescribe paper, the Pulse
smartpen captures and stores the notes you write. To capture your writing, the Pulse smartpen
uses its built-in infrared camera to take digital snapshots of the dot pattern as the tip moves over
the paper as you write.
When recording audio in Paper Replay, the Pulse smartpen links the recorded audio to your
notes based on the dot pattern on the page. With this information, the Pulse smartpen can play
back the audio that was recorded at the exact time you were writing your notes. Specifically,
when you tap on your notes with the Pulse smartpen, it locates the position where you are
tapping and starts to play back the audio at the position linked to that paper location.
Managing and Archiving Paper Products
Livescribe prints notebooks, journals, and other Livescribe dot paper products for your Pulse
smartpen. There is nothing special about the composition of the paper used for Livescribe dot
paper products. However, each page of Livescribe dot paper is printed with thousands of nearly-
invisible microdots arranged in a special pattern. Your Pulse smartpen reads these dots to
determine which page you are using and where on that page you are tapping or writing. With this
information, your Pulse smartpen can capture your notes, link audio to them, and perform other
paper-based operations.
Livescribe dot paper products sometimes re-use dot pattern. As a general rule, do not use
Livescribe dot paper products with the same dot pattern at the same time. This prevents a
potential problem that can happen when viewing your notebooks in Livescribe Desktop: when
you write in two notebooks with the same pattern, your notes from the second notebook will be
superimposed on your notes from the first notebook when you view them in Livescribe Desktop.
Because Livescribe dot paper products are important to working with your Pulse smartpen, you
should learn to manage and archive them.