I happen to not be a Moleskine customer, so I don't know if that's true. But Moleskine says customers of its paper products tend to buy both notebooks and planners, and the company believes they'll want to get both of the connected versions as well. That means you'll have to get the regular notebook no matter what, which I find unnecessary, since you have lined notebook pages in the planner anyway. To use the smart planner, you need the smart pen, which is available only with the $199 writing set for now. I also find the purchasing option unnecessarily complicated.
#MOLESKINE SMART PLANNER PRO SOFTWARE#
But for now, the software still feels too unreliable to justify buying the planner (a $30 add-on) specifically for the digital benefits. When it did recognize what I wrote, though, the Moleskine app accurately set up appointments in my calendar. I had to be extremely careful when writing my entries before it would work. It also failed to recognize my cursive or block writing, and labelled several of my meetings with gibberish. This made it save 2pm and 1pm appointments as all-day events. That all sounds nifty in theory, but because the system is so bad at recognizing my handwriting, it kept reading my 2s and 1s as Zs and Ls. There are three ways to create an appointment: start your entry with the time of your meeting, and the app will save a one-hour block to your calendar specify a start and end time, and the app will set aside a slot for that duration or, if you don't use any times at all, the app will save your entry as an all-day event.
Moleskine says the pen will last through up to 13 hours of "average use" and about seven hours of nonstop writing (hope they don't mean that literally).Īfter I finally got the planner to link to my iCal, I activated the pen and wrote down a few dummy meetings. So if your pen is out of power, too bad nothing you write will be saved to the app. Each time you want to write anything in the planner or notebook, you have to make sure the pen is switched on, or nothing will sync. Go into the Moleskine app's settings, then select "Authentication Center." Pick the calendar you prefer and give the app permission to sync. To get the planner to sync with your digital calendar, though, you have to make sure to follow these steps.
For the purpose of this hands-on, I checked the box, crossed my fingers and moved on. If you do provide an email, Moleskine said, it would send promotional emails from respective channels, and it won't if you don't supply your contact info.
#MOLESKINE SMART PLANNER PRO PASSWORD#
"This is completely optional, so you're not required to enter an email or password to use the app or product," the company said. This is usually optional making it mandatory is an oppressive move on Moleskine's part.Ī company spokesperson told Engadget that its privacy policy states that you may be asked in the future to provide an email address and password to access the app. What bothered me was that on the last page, you must check the box that says you agree to Moleskine sending you promotional or informational material if you want to move forward. Normally, this wouldn't be an issue we agree to terms and conditions all the time. You have to check several boxes on each page before you can proceed to the next one, and there's no way to skip any of this. Before you can even set up the pen, the app asks that you agree to Moleskine's privacy policy and terms and conditions.
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