After announcing the "Smart Writing Set" earlier in February, Moleskine today unveiled the newest product in this line, called simply the "Smart Planner." The new planner will allow users to jot down appointments and reminders within a weekly calendar area of the notebook, which will then be automatically digitized and synced to Apple iCalendar or Google Calendar formats (via TechCrunch).

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Moleskine's Smart Writing products work with the help of an invisible grid, made with Ncode technology, that enables the connected Moleskine Pen+ device to recognize where it is on the page and within the notebook. Previous devices in the Smart Writing Set would sync hand-written notes from a paper tablet into the Moleskine Notes app, but the company's new Smart Planner is one of the first to introduce direct calendar syncing compatibility.

Like other Livescribe systems, the Smart Planner as it’s called uses paper embedded with sensors that can read and sync anything written by the Moleskine Pen+. Meetings and appointments written on the planner part of the paper are synced automatically to the user’s Google or Apple account and placed appropriately on their calendar.

TechCrunch explained that when users write down meetings and appointments within the planner part of the paper, the notebook and Pen+ intelligently recognize the text as a calendar appointment, and convert it into an entry on the correct date in the user's chosen calendar app. This requires both the planner and Pen+, and Moleskine said it will begin selling a set of the new Smart Planner on September 12 for $199. If users already have a pen, they can buy just the Smart Planner for $29.

Top Rated Comments

Archmage Avatar
72 months ago
iCalendar is not Apple's format. It's IETF RFC 5545.
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arkitect Avatar
72 months ago
They do make great products.
I dunno… I think Leuchtturm make far superior notebooks… and the whole invented and hyped up myth about van Gogh, Hemingway etc… is just a load of guff. :)
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joej2 Avatar
72 months ago
In the end it is still a ballpoint or rollerball pen. Here's a vote for a "Moleskine Pen+" to be a fountain pen - perhaps a Namiki Vanishing Point.

I would love the ability to write in a quality notebook with a good fountain pen and have it digitized easily.
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jadot Avatar
72 months ago
Moleskine would do well to port their awesome iPad calendar app Timepage to the desktop. I think that's a better idea than a $200 notebook.
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