As someone who does everything electronically, I’m always slightly bemused by people who still use pen and paper – but there is something about Moleskine notebooks that does occasionally make me wonder just a little if I’m missing out. The company today appears to be targeting people like me, with an app that brings the stylish, minimalist aesthetics of the notebooks to a new iPhone and Apple Watch app.
Moleskine Timepage aims to integrate your iCloud, Google and Microsoft Exchange calendars with contacts, maps and weather. For appointments elsewhere, it will display a map of the location, show you the travel time by car, public transit, cycling or walking – and show what the weather will be like when you get there …
You can choose from thirteen Moleskine colors for the app’s pages, and decide how many days to view in the free-flowing timeline. You can also use natural language to add appointments, like “Coffee with George at Monks.”
I use multiple color-coded calendars so I can see at-a-glance not just what I’m doing, but what category it belongs to (tech writing, novel writing, social, etc), so I don’t think the solid color pages will work for me, but I’d otherwise be tempted to take it for a spin.
The company suggested last year that there was a good overlap between Apple and Moleskine customers, its CEO noting that its retail stores do better when they are close to an Apple Store.
Moleskine Timepage costs $4.99 from iTunes and is optimized for iPhone 5, iPhone 6, and iPhone 6 Plus, with a companion app on the Watch. Check out the full feature list below.
FEATURES:
• Your schedule is presented as a continuous timeline, making it easy to view a whole week at a glance or keep scrolling into the future to see what is coming up.
• A fully featured weather app with beautiful interactive charts is built-in so you can plan for the day.
• Adding events is as simple as typing something like “Coffee with George at Monks” and Timepage will take care of the details.
• Elegant single day and event views that keeps you focussed with info like “1 hour free after this until Meeting at 4pm”.
• Get travel time and directions for your events by car, public transit, cycling or walking.
• Works with Google Calendar, Microsoft Exchange (2007 with EWS) and Apple iCloud.
• Personalise your calendar by choosing how many days to show and selecting from thirteen Moleskine colors.
FOR APPLE WATCH:
• See your day-by-day schedule for the next week.
• Weather information with rain and temperature graphs so you know how to prepare.
• Maps show how to get to your next event and transit times for walking, cycling, driving and public transit.
• Glance view that shows how long until your next event and how long it will take to get there.
• Contact information and event notes are right there on your wrist.
• Event reminders will tap you on the wrist.
• Handoff from any day to your iPhone for quickly adding a new event.
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$5 might be a couple of dollars too much.
If people actually use this – its worth WAY more than $5 come on… You pay maybe $1000 for the hardware ultimately.
There’s Fantastical, there’s the awesome sunrise calendare, there’s the built-in app.. seriously, why pay so much for this?
Just wanted to say thanks for the write-up – I’m from Bonobo (we made Timepage with Moleskine). 9to5mac is the site I check every day when I wake up so it’s awesome seeing our humble app here! :D Happy to answer anyone’s questions too.
iCloud with 2-factor auth isn’t working. I used an app specific password and got an auth failed message.
Hi Kieran – we’re seeing some issues with 2 factor and are working on a fix right now. Sorry for the hassle!
Same here, Thanks Ben for the update!
Thanks for your patience Michael!
This sucks. After getting messages that my AppleID wasn’t valid, I was forced to change passwords, etc., and keychain authorization. Now I am shut out of most of my Apple Devices. Why the he!! didn’t you test 2 factor auth before going live? And charging us for this piece of *(&^%$#$
Does it have a Notification Center widget?
Hey James – not yet but it’s on the cards…what info would you like to see there most?
Listing of events and times for the day, including current temp, todays high, and % precipitation maybe. Check out the app Fresh Air, if you need some inspiration (haha). They’re widget is pretty good. I dig the flat design of the app, though, good work!
I love Timepage so much already and am happy a Notification Center widget is being considered. All I would need is today’s, maybe tomorrow’s events as well (something like Sunrise’s NC widget).
Ben, I’ve never been a huge fan of flat design, but from what I’ve seen of Timepage, you’re making me a believer. What a gorgeous-looking app.
Wow thanks so much Jeremy that’s a great compliment :-) We actually have a heritage very much in skeuomorphic design so this is quite a departure for us. We’ve tried to make it as tactile as possible with animation and sound etc so it doesn’t feel too soulless.
Does this work with Office365 Exchange w/app specific password?
Hi Mark, unfortunately not at this stage but we’re looking at it for the future. Thanks for the question.
iCloud Calendar authorization constantly fails…
Hi Ron – we are currently seeing an issue with 2 factor verification, fix is on the way! Sorry for the hassle.
What I’d definitely like to see in the future is for the app to access the built-in Calendar app directly (in the same way that Fantastical does). Also, would you consider Reminders integration?
Doesn’t work with app specific password on iCloud either. Can’t get past log in screen.
Hopefully a fix won’t be too far away, thanks Linda :-)
But is it worth the price
No offense BasicallyBeyondBasic, but we can’t know that until we’re able to use it. And for $5 we should be able to use it right away.
Pretty frustrating.
Why can’t you use it right away?
What a gorgeous app! I am having a bit of trouble though, with my iCloud calendars: The app is only synching/displaying one of my six or so calendars and none of my “subscribed” – as Apple’s Calendar app calls them – calendars…. Any thoughts would be much appreciated!
I was able to authorize my iCloud account, but this gorgeous app is only displaying one of my six or so calendars which I have selected to make visible, and none of Apple’s Calendar “subscribed” calendars are even listed as an option to view… Help?
Thanks for that – we’ll look into it. Are the subscribed calendars public or private do you know?
Private I think, as the are family and friends’ birthdays. Thanks so much!
does it update on background ?
I really love this app. I just recently discovered it. There are only a few iOS apps which can work with my Google Calendars and show the travel time (e.g. WeekCalendar, miCal and Apple Calendar but Apple Calendar only shows it when appointments are made with it’s own app and not with e.g. device e.g. desktop/laptop via Google Calendar website and the iCloud.com calendar area doesn’t support Google calendar or travel time.
I love the stylish UI of the app and the great widget (Today) which shows the time in minutes to an appointment! It has already the option to show car, bike, walking in the app. You can navigate with both Apple and Google Maps.
Feature wishes Moleskine Timepage (I’ve send a request to them already):
– when you press a specific appointment on the week view list you have to press it a second time to see the actual distance time
– lacks the option to show travel time description in my own language (Dutch)
– can’t add an appointment in the listview (a simple + button somewhere would be quick), only able to do that in month view by pressing long on the date
– difficult way to adjust e.g. title/date but especially the location or text (note)
– have a search button in the list view (instead of scrolling right and pressing search first
-have the option to choose travel time from either previous appointment, current location or e.g. a mandatory home or work location. The standard is the current location
– have the option to show the distance in time (and maybe also km) to an appointment also within the list view (or other views) aside from showing on the appointment itself
– have a widget (Notification Center) that shows the 7 days week appointments (or have the option to choose the amount of days shown in the widget)