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On my iPhone: Moleskine for iPhone becomes Moleskinery(+)

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Pretty near the top of the list of most used applications on my V1 iPhone was a jailbreak app from databinge called moleskine. Moleskine has been heavily covered and favored on JAiB and I figure while there’s not much sense in covering all the details again, but I wanted to let you know you can plan on a review coming up on this one. I’ve just ponied up my $12.99 for the (+) version of moleskinery and so far I can honestly say I’m glad I did… this is one of those familiar faces from the jailbreak community that I’m happy to see back on my homescreen.

Anyway, initial thoughts are this:

  • Great looking icons. Could use a few more choices but for a starting point they are really good
  • Clean, easy to use and understand interface
  • Photo notes are really easy, text entry is MUCH improved over the jailbreak version which tended to switch out of editing too easy
  • A little crashy. Don’t try to change icons repeatedly in quick succession. It will crash. But it saves all your data so nothing is lost. Had 3 crashes so far and they were all while changing icons or details.
  • Email of notes is nice. Emailing with attachments (photos or voice) not there. Really needs a way to do a full backup of all notes.

    Here’s a couple screenshots to get you going:

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    6 Comments so far »

    1. by susannah, on August 14 2008 @ 1:11 pm

       

      i’ve been waiting for this one!

      curious tho, how would you compare moleskinery with evernote? (ie: moleskinery has a gorgeous UI. But evernote syncs off the device. But moleskinery has the folder structure.) do you think are they two different animals?

    2. by Brandon, on August 14 2008 @ 1:25 pm

       

      Right now I’m going with two different animals that both look like tigers. Here’s the problem I see with these two being competitive against one another: Evernote does the whole syncing action between multiple systems extremely well, but they lack the offline notes capability and they don’t have the folder structure views so if you’re like me with a few hundred notes in Evernote you’re either searching or scrolling. With Moleskinery you’re able to store notes offline and keep a really nice structure - but you’re screwed for using multiple devices.

      So … right now they are what I would say to be complementing applications. I’m using evernote to capture notes from all my systems (work, home etc) and things I really need synced between them all. I’ll be using moleskinery for notes I need access to where ever I am (like shopping / ToDo) even if I don’t have a network connection (like at the very back of my local SuperTarget). The nice thing is text notes can be synced out of moleskinery so I can email them directly to evernote should I need to get them out onto my other systems.

      I really hope that the developer of moleskinery can figure out a way for me to email images/voice notes … and I also hope there’s a backup/import function built in soon.

    3. by susannah, on August 14 2008 @ 5:28 pm

       

      Thanks for your response Brandon. I’ve really enjoyed JAiB since I got one last December.

    4. by Brandon, on August 14 2008 @ 5:47 pm

       

      You got a JAiB last Decemeber?!! :)

      Just kidding - hopefully I helped answer the question.

    5. by marquis_ce, on September 1 2008 @ 10:00 am

       

      How we backup and restore the notes?

    6. by Brandon, on September 1 2008 @ 12:36 pm

       

      Unfortunately there’s really only two ways to backup -

      1. Use iTunes to backup and trust it to allow you to restore.
      2. Jailbreak and use something like AppBackup and SSH the data off your device.

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