Moleskine Notes 4+

An extremely poor upgrade with fewer features than 1.0

The push to an upgraded app has run into so many issues - this has been going on for over a year now. With fewer features to 1.0. From the migration does not work, nor does the lack of recognising that the pen has been used to draft a number of additional notes to pages in the book. When syncing the pen - my notes hadn’t even been uploaded to the app. I may as well have just underspent and purchased a standard pen and paper at this rate. 1.0 was fine - only issue was with the sync to gdrive in its latter stages. Now both apps appear to have been rendered useless. I’ll continue with 1.0 until the upgrade is finally ready. I just hope its worth it when 1.0 is discontinued, otherwise - there will be a lot of customers migrating to other platforms.

Edit: this has been improved of late and although there appear to be fewer bugs and issues with the app and pen, there is still some work to be done on the conversion from handwriting to text formats. Maybe this will be improved overtime as my newer pen is getting used to my handwriting.

Please also note that one needs to upgrade their pen with this latest app as the old one doesn’t pick up everything on the tablet.

Developer Response ,

Dear Pmaa, we’d like to thank you again for taking the time to write this review. We are working to solve all the issues. All feedbacks are highly appreciated, to improve our products and services. We kindly ask you to write a note to notesapp@moleskine.com in order to support you at our best. Thanks

Could be worse.

I used Livescribe before and am new to this set up. I’ve read some reviews here that are less than favourable. My experience so far is that it works and offers more features and an infinitely better experience than my last system’s app which was awful.

My teething issues:

1. There is half a page that didn’t upload to the phone (Some of which was used for calibration).
2. The pen had to be re-paired to the phone on my second use.

Feature request:

1. Ability to view pages in reverse to the current view, ie; oldest first.
2. Backup to iCloud instead of only Google or Microsoft as options.
3. The option to customise the use for the on paper envelope icon. Or, at least the option to choose email the pdf, email a transcription or both as an option in settings.

I haven’t used this system much yet as this was a gift from a friend but despite the pen feeling a little cheap on the whole it is already better than Livescribe’s set up. Mostly centred around the app, theirs is terrible this one works and offers more.

I will return to this review after more experience using the pen and app

The pen etc… I have is an older version that charges via mini usb despite being a brand new unopened writing set. So far, so good and I hope it stays this way, and if implemented, I would make good use of my suggested features.

Developer Response ,

Hi Richie, we’d like to thank you for writing this review. All feedback is highly appreciated, it enables us to improve our products and services. Thank you so much.

Bugs when syncing the diary

It works fine in general but when I add a new event on the calendar it keeps re-adding all other event I already created and saved. So I have multiple entries for the same event… Sometimes it just uploads events merging different notes that all goes to my calendar without any sense… and on top of that the app clashes so I can’t remove the wrong events (and even if I do, they all remain visible and it’s quite confusing what has been uploaded or not)