{"id":525,"date":"2018-02-28T08:30:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T13:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/?p=525"},"modified":"2018-02-25T12:40:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T17:40:39","slug":"my-thoughts-on-moleskines-new-smart-pen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2018\/02\/28\/my-thoughts-on-moleskines-new-smart-pen\/","title":{"rendered":"My thoughts on Moleskine&#8217;s new smart pen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moleskine recently released its Pen+ <a href=\"https:\/\/us.moleskine.com\/pen-plus-ellipse\/p0655\">Ellipse<\/a>. I&#8217;ve long been intrigued by the smart pen idea, where I would simply write, doodle, or sketch and have the result automagically transferred to an electronic form for me. But I won&#8217;t be buying an Ellipse any time soon. Why?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I love my fountain pens. I don&#8217;t want to give them up.<\/li>\n<li>I want to write on any paper I happen to have handy, whether that happens to be in my <a href=\"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2018\/01\/08\/438\/\">Moleskine everything notebook<\/a>, a Rhodia notepad, a 3&#8243;x5&#8243; index card, a sheet of 8 1\/2&#8243; x 11&#8243; paper, or anything else. I don&#8217;t want to have to write only on one kind of paper or in only one kind of notebook.<\/li>\n<li>By combining pen and paper with the camera in my iPhone (whether the camera itself or the Evernote-linked app <a href=\"https:\/\/evernote.com\/products\/scannable\">Scannable<\/a>), I can easily get anything I&#8217;ve written down anywhere into Evernote or scan it to PDF and store it in Dropbox. There is a &#8220;cool&#8221; factor missing from my approach, but it works very well for me, and it seems a lot more flexible.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moleskine recently released its Pen+ Ellipse. I&#8217;ve long been intrigued by the smart pen idea, where I would simply write, doodle, or sketch and have the result automagically transferred to&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2018\/02\/28\/my-thoughts-on-moleskines-new-smart-pen\/\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-productivity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}