Moleskine: your digital notebook

It is impossible to keep track of all the bits of papers that we use in our daily lives to make a plan or a statistic chart or to scribble down some important number.  Knowingly or accidently all of them end up in a dustbin!! Not anymore. With Moleskine notebook, you will have all the information in your hand readily available all the time and one that can be shared anytime using email or services like Evernote.

Moleskine has teamed up with the creators of the Neo Smartpen to make it a lot easier to digitize your handwritten notes and sketches, to move them onto your mobile device, and to share them. Moleskine's latest attempt to build digital backups into its iconic paper notebooks is available starting today and provides a seamless paper-to-digital user experience.

The set consists of a special Moleskine notebook, an iPad app, and a Bluetooth pen. With it, anything you write in the Moleskine will be copied instantly to your iPad. You can hop from page 2 to page 30 to page 78, and the pen and app will follow you along the way. Or you can write without your iPad connected, and the information will download when you're back at your tablet.

The Moleskine Pen+, a custom-branded version of the Neo Smartpen, uses a built-in camera to track the movements of the pen’s tip on the notebook’s pages. Pen+ is empowered with nCode technology to ensure it’s accurately tracking writing movements, position, and what page is currently being used. Using a Bluetooth connection to the Pen+, you can digitalize everything you write or draw in the Paper Tablet in near real-time, and even has a shortcut in the upper right corner of each page for automatically emailing a digital version of the page’s contents.

Completing the Pen+ is a new Moleskine notebook, called as Paper Tablet. Without any touch screen or electronics inside it, Moleskine has cleverly made its pages bulge outward with a rounded contour, giving it the appearance of a digital tablet.

The Smart Writing Set isn’t the first time Moleskine has created a connected product. It has previously worked with companies like Evernote and Adobe to create app-compatible notebooks, but both of those required you to photograph completed pages using a smartphone or tablet’s camera, which often leads to mixed results. The set will cost $US 199 with no monthly subscription fees since everything is stored locally on your devices. Replacement Paper Tablet notebooks, which come with 176 blank pages, are $US30 each. But since the Moleskine pen uses the same nCode Technology as the Neo Smartpen does, you can also use it with other compatible notebooks, or even just print your own special paper at home on the cheap.