Logitech io2 Digital Writing System | List Price: $199.00
Discount Price: $147.00
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Brand: Logitech
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: 2 years warranty
Features: - Convert handwriting to text -- your handwritten notes will look as if they typed on a keyboard
- Easy editing -- Change color and width of your ink strokes, select portions to remove, combine handwritten documents or paste information to existing documents
- Search for words and phrases in your handwritten notes, by date, type of document or file name
- While in a meeting, add To Do items or schedule new meetings by simply writing them down
- Post-It notes and FranklinCovey's iScribe software and digital planning pages keep your new ideas and commets organized
Save time: Put the price in dollars in a shredder [Posted on 2006-08-14]
I have been back and forth for weeks with Logitech Tech support and I still cannot get the darn software for this pen installed. The latest gem: uninstall my McAfee software and then try to install again. I don't think so. I have wasted hours on this usless product and now will just demand my money back. Don't even think about getting this clunker.
Better have neat handwriting [Posted on 2006-08-30]
I have had this product for about 8 months. The truth about the handwriting to word document feature is that you have to have extremely brilliant handwriting in order to use the feature. I personally have mediocre handwriting, hence the reason I required the pen (so I could read my notes). When I tried to convert the handwriting, almost everything was changed into different characters. In addition, a few things must be noted concerning this product:
1) You cannot go back and change words that are already written
2) You must write on a special type of paper which is horrendously expensive
3) The pen is ridiculously large (I have large hands and still lacked the ability to hold the pen without getting hand cramps)
4) The pen writes like a low cost pen, which will cause trouble to users who prefer finer writing implements
5) There is only one learning session for the handwriting recognition, so the program will not advance with your handwriting
There are benefits of the pen; the image produced of the notes is very accurate (I used this when I lost a few pages of notes). The battery is long-lasting. Interface is very user friendly if you have some experience with computers.
I would not recommend buying this product as a student. In the business world it may hold more functionality due to its e-mail and other features that are compatible with Outlook (especially to those who do not enjoy typing). I was convinced this product was amazing at first, but my experience has had many pitfalls. If you do possess decent handwriting, I believe the product will work much better. Hope I could be helpful.
Quite Useful [Posted on 2006-11-16]
I use it for all my notes at work. I never expect ANYTHING from handwriting recognition so I am not disappointed with their software, it's par for the course. The pen captures very detailed drawings that are easy to paste into other documents. I did have some trouble installing their software but it's been working for a year now.
Great piece of gear, too bad it's dying technology. [Posted on 2007-05-04]
I bought the Logitech io2 on a whim during a CompUSA closing sale, so I got a great deal on the device. My overall impression is that it's a "nice to have," but unless you're a manager or higher level administrative representative in a setting where you can get a larger order of them, it loses functionality.
1) I've tried at length to find different products beyond standard ruled paper for this thing, to no avail. At this point even a standard notebook would require special mail ordering, but if you know where to look, the costs can be defrayed. I bought a set of 15 "digital notebooks" with roughly 100 sheets each on eBay for about $15.00 USD + ~$10 shipping. In general, however, it's a very specialized piece of gear that demands very specialized parts -- no, you cannot write on normal paper or print out the "Anoto" sheets you need on your own. If I could just find a dayplanner that works with the pen I'd be able to justify the cost, but I can't
2) Let me reiterate that you must use specialized paper. My recommendation is that if you're willing to pay the price for the io2, you better be ready to pay for the XPaper program and extra paper (which runs at $15 for a ream of 100, by the way) so that you can print your own forms and have a good bit more functionality.
3) It seems like dead technology. Most of the excitement I've seen buzzing around this piece of gear seems to date back to 2005. Pretty much everything you see now developed for digital pen technology is all you can expect ever will be developed for digital pens; look over whats available closely, see if any of it will REALLY help you as an individual user, and then make the decision to buy.
4) Of course -- the high price now needs addressing. If you're prone to losing pens, getting pens stolen, etc etc... well, do not buy this pen. You're going to drop $150+ into a piece of gear you're going to have for about a month and a half before it gets stolen. Paranoia marks all my attempts to keep accountability of my pen.
5) It just doesn't write as well as I'd expect a $150 pen to write. I mean, it's a blue ink ball point BIC pen with a fancy camera on its nose. Don't expect something that writes as well as say, a gel pen or space pen. I did, and I was sorely disappointed. Which brings me to my next point.
6) Handwriting recognition. I won't even go into depth here. I just hope you have really, really neat handwriting. Like, your handwriting looks like you traced a typed sheet of paper.
All in all, I like it, but I wouldn't recommend it to everyone. I work in a personnel administrative capacity, so it's heavily useful to me, but I think it'd be even more useful to say, a college student who needs to have his notes collected in one place. Imagine a college student who has digitized, searchable notes and who can e-mail his notes to a friend who missed the lecture in thier full, handwritten format -- footnotes, sidenotes, doodles and all. It has a lot of unrealized potential, and I wish I could exploit its functionality to its fullest, but I just cannot at my level and at the level of availablity of products that work with it.
Great for portable note taking [Posted on 2008-05-17]
I have had this pen for 3 months and the pen works well as described. It is large so if you have small hands you might find this uncomfortable. The battery seems to last forever and the internal memory holds lots of pages. My concern is finding notebooks when the ones I bought run out. Also be prepared to spend several hours writing pages of jargon to train the pen to your hand writing. I use this pen to take notes and then find them at a later date by keyword search that's built into the software. Works well once it's trained. You can also do little tricks like create emails, calendar entries on your notebook so when you dock the pen it establishes calendar appointments, task lists etc... I don't find this feature very useful since it nevers seems to translate those entries correctly. The OCR software takes your notes and converts it to electronic text characters like MS Word but the pen really needs to understand your handwriting for this to work flawlessly. Admittedly, my hand writing is horrible and it still does a pretty good job. If anything, it helps you write neater so your notes are more legible. Again, the most useful feature to me is being able to use the key word search and finding something quickly anywhere in my notebook without scanning every single page manually. I also draw many diagrams (free hand) and it takes whatever you draw or write and populates it into the software which is nice if I want to distribute one of my drawings. I can just print them off. Make no mistake, if you draw crooked lines it does not straighten them for you. What you draw is what you get. The software only translates hand writing to electronic text. Overall, happy with the pen, the ink itself could be a bit smoother but it works about as well as any disposable pen and again it's a little bulky. Another nice feature is I can take my pen and notebook anywhere unlike many of the other items I found that require you to keep some type of adapter connected to a paper notebook and attached to a PC. This is a self operating pen until you dock and download it in it's supplied cradle.
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