Livescribe PULSE Manual De Usuario

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.  

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.