Hello everyone, welcome back to another video it is Francesco here
Welcome to Keep Productive YouTube channel if you're brand new, but if you're a regular, welcome back
So in today's video I wanted to chat about another suite of applications
Called more skin and in many people baby like Moleskine in there the note takers
And of course they are what I want to do today is dive into the new app so launching what future is coming to these
Apps and also a little bit about what I think about the sort of digital
note-taking experience and
how
You can sort of I guess how companies are an edge of that and sort of working through that so to start off this story
I am a course a fan of notebooks and do follow a lot of channels on YouTube that cover notebooks
I have notebooks myself. I have some lovely barren fig ones but Moleskine is clearly a company that's been around for a while now
Moleskine have always been when I've gone to Italy always been a book that has been
Available a notebook that's been available to buy and also in the UK in a lot of the popular stores that I visit like waterstones
Have more skins available and they are super attractive leather-bound books
Oh, I want to do a little bit of research into Moleskine and when I talk about research
I mean just going on Wikipedia and searching moleskin aren't that old as a company? I thought they were a lot older
I thought they were like 50 or 60 years old, but they actually were created in
1997 which I feel is a lot younger
than I thought it was the more skin obviously have been creating notebooks for a fair while and
to some extent they've been on the sort of pinnacle of
digital experiences in the last five to ten years
Now, I remember the first time that I captured this experience when I was using a lot of evident products ever never released something called
the Evernote Moleskine
notebook which allowed you to use these smart stickers and
Use scanning functions on Evernote to sort of bring that to life and that was really wicked because you could sort of get this
Note-taking experience or design experience that you had for years it sort of combined it with a new resource
Like Evernote wasn't so know at the time evident was out for a while
But it was such a nice sort of intersect. Now, of course physical products have to develop
That's something that always sort of is prevalent in most spaces
now most of the products have now become digital because they've almost forced himself to
With the changing markets asking are a company that have done this in the last two three years
They've released two iOS applications. Actually they've reached more than that
but and this sort of diamond is that in a second, they released two applications called actions and
Also time page which has calendar application now
Both of these applications are designed to give you a task management experience with actions and a beautiful calendar experience with time page
Now they are both
Exclusively on iOS but they do work works really really well and they're designed to a high grade standard
Now this there is a subscription service inside this so it's not a free app in totally
Obviously, that's how they're gonna make money
But this is sort of a new era for Moscone now Moscone are not newbies to creating applications
They actually created a few other applications in the past
Covering journal note takers and that sort of planner experience
But they didn't really hit the nail on the head with these now when they release these many of the other applications
Sort of jumped in and sort of became more predominant
So this sort of hit back with actions and time page is almost like a new revolute revolution revelation
I don't know in this sort of space now with actions and time page
Of course you have this really gorgeous looking experience, but there is one element missing and that is notes
Moleskin the note-taker has a note taking application
It's just not all that good and this will the next part of the puzzle formal skin?
Of course moleskin have a great actions application and time pager application
But they really need a great notes application
So I think in the next year, we'll see this edition and moscone
Will then have what they call a core suite these three major productivity applications the note-taker
The task manager and the calendar experience that you necessarily need for personal productivity
So of course moleskin have been at the forefront of trying to do this
But it's not actually the first company is trying to do this
The company that I use with my notebooks barren fig actually developed their own apps and they're also very progressive
Thinking in terms of being able to set up a podcast and lots more elements like that
Now the difference is to some extent that moleskin have gone from an agency with this and it's not necessarily done in-house
But that's because they've become so big to some extent
They're about 20 years old now that they needed to become like developers and hire those
professionals to be able to deliver these high-quality applications
Now, of course, I think the future is definitely something like this being able to have that sort of digital
Note-taking experience. So for example, let's say I bought a moleskin notebook tomorrow
It's not necessarily me connecting it with my phone
But I would like to know that there's a note taking application out there for moleskin
They would allow me to replicate a similar experience. That isn't necessarily dull-looking the design of the
applications needs to be on the standards of the great leather-bound books and that's exactly what they're working towards now, so guys
hopefully that gave you a nice overview of how moleskin is sort of progressing with their applications and
Maybe a bit nerdy talking about this. I really like the topic of like even like
Subscriptions even like app sort of processes even like the digital and the physical sign of stuff and how that's working out
So, of course, let me know in the comments whether you would like to hear more of these sorts of conversations
But it was great talking about this. I really like to sort of dive into it like this any of you guys
Hopefully you enjoyed this topic today
Let me know in the comments below what you thought if you're not subscribed yet hear that subscription button
and also check out the moleskin applications below because I'll include links to all of them so far in description below and the references as
Well that you use to any of the guys
Thank you so much for stopping by make sure to have a great week key productive and I'll see you guys very very soon