At SamaGame we have been looking at the applications that Moleskine publishes for iOS, iPadOS and macOS for a long time: Actions and Flow are good examples of this, providing different angles to be able to manage our tasks and events or to take freehand notes.
Today we take a look at another of its applications, Moleskine Journey, with which they want to perfect their vision of what it should be to keep a digital diary with all our daily annotations. And after what they have learned during the last years and applications, they are getting closer and closer to what it is to carry a real Moleskine under our arm wherever we go.
Calendars, tasks, routine tracking and personal diary in one application
The main characteristic of Journey is that we are not facing an application that is limited to combining calendar, reminders and notes in a different interface. What we see is a very flexible virtual agenda, which adapts to our rhythm and way of life with tools that until now I have only seen in complex solutions such as Notion.
The first thing Journey asks of us is our professional field, in order to try to adapt the structure of its agenda to something that fits us. A very positive point is that it allows us create a user account through Sign in with Apple, even with the possibility of hiding our email.
The application interface shows us (if we want to) a mix of our calendar events, our reminders and any annotation we want to make on a virtual page for each day. It also allows us to do a follow-up of our routines daily, to see if we comply with them or if we forget them too often (exercise, read …). Using the same format also allows us to track our mood by marking emojis. As all this data is personal, Moleskine Journey allows us to protect everything with an additional lock password.
The key is that on the daily page you have something very similar to what you normally have in a paper Moleskine: events, tasks, projects, annotations, reflections … a hodgepodge of data in various formats and total freedom to edit them.
Naturally all this is also transferred to the versions for iOS and iPadOS, where we can even put those routine and mood traces in an iOS 14 widget. All project data, follow-ups, reminders and calendars are synchronized through Moleskine’s own cloud.
Does all this have a price? Well yes, somehow you have to cover the costs of the synchronization servers apart from earning a profit for all those responsible for working on the applications. You can use Moleskine Journey for a week completely free of charge, with 2 GB of cloud space. At that point you can continue using the service with 30 GB of cloud space per 24.99 euros per year as an offer (the normal price is 34.99 euros per year and 100 GB of storage).
Given those prices, it all depends on the use you want to give it. If Moleskine Journey convinces you during that first week of testing and you take advantage of all its functions, 25 euros per year is not a bad price to enjoy an application on all your devices that controls all the work and personal aspects of your day to day.
On the other hand, if you don’t take advantage of that approach and only see an application that combines calendars and tasks in a different interface, then most likely Moleskine Journey is not for you. Applications like these take advantage of when you fit in with their way of doing things and take advantage of every detail of their possibilities. You can download the free trial of Moleskine Journey with its applications in the App Store.
