I have been directing users to this thread on Livescribe’s Get Satisfaction page: and asking them to add their voices to the people asking Livescribe to bring the Developer’s Program back. But that soon changed with the release of my Custom Paper Deployment Tool. Since then, I have been getting many requests from users to develop different kinds of custom paper including music staff paper and I have been forced to tell them that I cannot simply because I do not have access to any additional pattern license. At first, I was forced to tell them that yes, they were too late. Unfortunately a recent forum overhaul has prevented me from accessing any of those Private Messages and I was forced to paraphrase from my memory. The preceding is my paraphrased version of several Private Messages sent to me through the Livescribe Forums. Now that Livescribe’s closed the Developer Program, is it over? Am I too late to join in and use Custom Paper? Within the weeks that followed, I saw many, many forum posts, emails, and comments on this website all filled with one message: I get between 4-5 thousand page views a month on this website and at least half of those are from people who are interested in using my custom paper products. The full announcement is available on Livescribe’s website here: As one of the major custom paper developers, I was rather disappointed with Livescribe’s decision as Livescribe’s platform is one that I have greatly enjoyed developing for. Joyce & Michael, Livescribe Developer Programs Team We greatly appreciate the time, effort and support you have given to Livescribe and our platform over the past three years. If your application is close to completion and you would like to have it posted in our store, please contact us at for support. At this time, the SDKs and developer website will no longer be available. We will continue to accept applications submitted for publishing in our online store, as well as pattern credit requests through July 22nd. Our recent introduction of Livescribe Connect, which enables customers to easily send notes and audio, as a pencast PDF, to people or destinations of their choice like Google Docs, Evernote, email, and Facebook, is an important step in this direction.Īpplications in our online store will remain available for download and purchase pending compatibility with future Livescribe software updates. With cloud technology and mobile information access becoming increasingly important to our customers, Livescribe is realigning its focus and resources on cloud access, storage and services. As of July 29th, Livescribe will close its third-party developer program. This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Cloud computing, Dropbox, Livescribe, Note-taking by Stephen Francoeur. If you’ve got an older pen like mine, you may want to look into the Livescribe/Dropbox set up I did. I see that Livescribe now offers a new pen that automatically transmits via wifi all your notes to your Evernote account, thereby achieving the same kind of automated cloud storage of notes that I did. Instead, I had to install a program called Junction and create virtual pointers that said to the Livescribe software, “Hey, that archive of Livescribe files isn’t really here it’s over there in Dropbox.” Setting it up involved typing in commands in the C prompt, something that took me back to good old DOS days. The process wasn’t as simple as just moving the files from the location on my hard drive to a folder in Dropbox. Thanks to this blog post by Rohan Kapoor, I’ve learned how to store the Livescribe files in Dropbox and thus make them available on any computer where I’ve installed the Livescribe desktop software. Until this week, though, I only had that searchable digitized place available on one computer (my work computer). It’s awesome to be able to take notes in the freest possible way–with a pen and paper–and know that regardless of which notebook I am using, all my notes will be aggregated in one, searchable, digitized place (the Livescribe desktop software). I’ve loved my Livescribe pen since I got it a few summers ago.
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