When you begin recording with the smartpen, your smartpen automatically links the audio to anything you write on Livescribe Dot Paper. The recorded audio (and any linked written notes) is called a Paper Replay session.
Notes not linked to audio are just notes. They are not part of a session.
A session always contains audio.
A session can optionally include written notes (pages) linked to the audio. However, you can record audio only, known as paperless sessions.
A session begins when you start recording audio and ends when you stop recording audio.
Pausing and unpausing a recording does create separate sessions. The paused and unpaused session remains as one. Starting and stopping recordings creates separate sessions.
You can have one session that spans multiple pages, such as when taking many notes while recording a long lecture or meeting.
Starting and stopping recording multiple times per page creates multiple sessions on that page.
By default, sessions are named on your smartpen and Livescribe Desktop based on the time and date they are created. For example, if a session is started on June 03, 2011, at 12:22PM, it is named and displayed as 06.03.11 12:22p.