Moleskine Smart Writing Set, Smart Notebook with Smart Pen Included, Moleskine Smart Notebook, Digital Notebook with Lined Pages, Large, 13x21 cm, Black

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.

I bought the moleskin smart writing system for full price. I must say it's absolutely awful.The Moleskine notebook itself is as you'd expect. Very good quality, and the pages are nice and thick. The pen is very nice to the touch with a very soft and smooth feel, although the plastic does feel a bit cheap, given the price and does rattle.The pen uses standard D1 refills, which one can buy off of Amazon.The pen also charges with a magnetic cable which is a very nice touch, especially compared to the Neo Pen N2 which I also own.Where the entire system falls apart is in the software implementation.My pen does not auto sync, and I need to have the app open in order to have any of what I've written digitised. As a consequence, it's very hit and miss whether what I have written is transferred or not. The notebooks also do not sync across devices.Speaking to Moleskine, the standard answer to any problems is "please ensure the pen's firmware is updated". Unfortunately the pen's firmware does not update even when the app and the pen remains side-by-side for more than half an hour.As a consequence, buying this system was a very expensive mistake.I CANNOT recommend it as given Moleskine's past history with their previous smart pen iterations, I cannot hope for these issues to be resolved in the near future.

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!

I don't know how or whether this notebook will work any better with the Moleskine smart pen but it employs n-code markings on the page for the pen to work with - and these notebooks are advertised on the Neo website.There are so many gaps in the writing that is picked up by the pen to make it entirely useless; I've tried different pressures, different lighting, different writing surfaces... All to no avail.In contrast I wrote on the pocket notebook that came with the pen and it worked flawlessly. On that paper the n-code markings are slightly clearer.

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