Moleskine Smart Notebook, Smart Writing System, Smart Notebook with Hard Cover, Ruled Pages and Elastic Closure, Large Format 13 x 21, Colour Sapphire Blue

I LOVE this! I treated myself looking for something distraction free to draw and write with and serves this purpose perfectly. You can't beat the feel of real paper and Moleskine paper is top quality (I'm not a connoisseur but compared to my £1.99 (insert supermarket brand here) notepad this feels like real quality.What you're paying for here is the Smart Pen and as a concept, it's absolutely fabulous. Once paired with your chosen device you can simply write in the notepad - your don't even need your device to be close by, the pen stores your notes in its memory until you open the app and then your notes are downloaded to your device. Sure, you can see your notes being written in real time if you have you're device on and the app open but that's not distraction- free but is a perfect demonstration of this magical little pen and notepad.At first I wondered if the pen would shift around in my hand causing problems with the IR sensor but found that the lid clips in place at two positions so the flat part of the lid rests comfortably against the index finger knuckle. The two positions seem to correspond to left and right handed use. There's a definite click when rotating the lid into these positions.Your notes can be exported to various formats including SVG vectors which I have tried with Affinity Design and Concepts with limited success and the Moleskine Notes app needs more development but is quite capable. More so than I expected actually.It's not as elegant as my fountain pen and seems to rattle a little but not during actual use.Sure, it's expensive and before it arrived I already had buyers remorse but not any more. Its a niche product and you should do your own research as to whether its right for you but wow, it's amazing.Update 20.4.25: I've come to realise that the Moleskine app is actually more capable than I first found. In particular, exporting. I wanted to export my writing and drawings to SVG and use it in Affinity Design and Concepts but had limited success. I have since found that exporting to PDF has an option to export to vector PDF which works perfectly with both of the above apps.

This is a quality system and the character recognition is extremely good, even if your handwriting isn't the best.

Purchased this in a bid to make note taking and following actions a lot easier, via digitisation but this product is not there in terms of functionality or usability. There are issues with the application, which is very buggy, an update last month broke the application and made it unable to start, which rendered the whole item back to the same level as a notebook and pen, just a very expensive one. Still issues with the application and cloud-syncing. Simple advice is to not purchase this item.

I like that you always have a hard copy in the book in case the app crashes

You can only use this with Genuine Moleskin e-books (to 'pick up' the data)Despite internet suggestions, i could not get mine to work with photocopied 'Neo' pages.The software is OK, and does indeed copy into a folder.Be aware that it does NOT work on Windows?Moleskine paper is high quality, so in that respect worth the premium cost.-suggest you do your research before this outlay.I does work well at what it is supposed to do.

Smooth writing package. Pen is great but more importantly is the editing in the app from the page. Love it!

The notebook costs £16, the pen and charger £23 But all together they cost £245. All are approximate. Have I got something wrong? Incidentally you can purchase equivalent writing systems for less than £100. My final observation is that the writing to text recognition is not great and does not compare with the Kindle Scribe equivalent.

Very impressed. I look forward to the evolution of the product and the first smart fountain pen!