Product Description

The Moleskine 2010 Pocket Weekly Notebook is dated from January 2010 to December 2010, formatted to show the week's appointments on the left and a ruled page for notes and ideas on the right. It is a handy and versatile planner with the freedom of the notebook.
This Moleskine planner is thread bound and has a soft cover with rounded corners, acid free paper, a bookmark, an elastic closure and an expandable inner pocket that contains the Moleskine history.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2639 in Books
• Published on: 2009-06-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 5.51" h x 3.74" w x .39" l, .0 pounds
• Binding: Calendar
• 144 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9788862930499
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Compared to a Day-Timer
This looks like it might be just what I need.

In comparison to the Day-Timer Compact 2-Page-Per-Week Original Refill - 1 Book that I have been using I see some PROs and some CONS. See the customer image I uploaded to compare the Day-Timer to the Moleskine. I tried to put a few more notes on the image but apparently this is a "beta" feature of Amazon and in its current state it refuses to let me put on any more notes. But those things are called out below.

PROS:

The Moleskine format is about right for me. The one-week planner page on the left is good -- I don't need every hour of every day to have it's own dedicated line (my life is just not that complicated) so a free-form area for each day should be more appropriate.

The Moleskine's weekly lined page is about right for jotting down notes for the week, or for a particularly eventful day. The Day-Timer doesn't have much space for notes.

The Moleskine has a nice pocket in the back.

CONS:

The Day-Timer's leather cover has a pen loop and will also accept a Day-Timer address booklet. The Moleskine, of course, doesn't. (NOTE: the Day-Timer's leather cover is an extra cost item and not provided with the planner booklet itself.)

The Moleskine is is a little bulkier than the Day-Timer. It doesn't fit into the zippered pockets of a couple of my shirts. (It does fit into more standard shirt pockets.) Even with its leather cover, pen and address booklet the Day-Timer fits into all my shirt pockets. (The Day-Timer's leather cover is not shown in photo. It's outside dimensions are about half way between the booklet as shown and the Moleskine's dimensions.)

The Day-Timer is a wire-bound booklet so it opens flat and is therefore a little easier to write in than the Moleskine. The Moleskine can be pressed flat so that it stays open on its own, as seen in the photo, but it is not quite as easy to write in.

TBD:

We will see if the PROS outweigh the CONS as I use it! But because there are some CONS I will leave it at four stars.

POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVE:

One of my CONS is that this is a little hard to write in because it doesn't lie perfectly flat. Moleskin makes a planner just like the one reviewed here except that it has a hard (and red) cover: Moleskine Weekly Notebook 12 Months Hard Red Cover Pocket. The hard cover makes it just a little easier to write in. I think that would be worth considering instead. (I could not find a black version on Amazon.)

UPDATE:

After carting around each of these (Moleskine and Day-Timer) I think the Day-Timer is a little nicer. Note the weights:

* 35gm -- Day-Timer Compact 2-Page-Per-Week Original Refill - 1 Book by itself
* 66gm -- The above Day-Timer planner with an added Day-Timer All-Purpose Notebook (31gm)
* 117gm -- The above (planner, notebook) in a leather cover
* 94gm -- This Moleskine
* 127gm -- Moleskine Weekly Notebook 12 Months Hard Red Cover Pocket

The lighter weight and overall smaller dimensions make the Day-Timer significantly more comfortable to carry in a shirt pocket. I carry just the planner and the notebook (66gm total). I ditched the leather cover for now to see how things work out. I hold the planner and notebook together with a rubber band. Think of it as a poor man's version of the Moleskine's elastic closure.

The Day-Timer is made from a special paper that is strong and opaque so that the pages can be made very thin and still hold up to daily use (think erasing pencil). It is also reasonably good at reducing "show through" to the other side of the page (think ink). The extra thin pages make the booklet thinner and lighter overall.

Because of the wire binding the Day-Timer is easier to write in when conditions are less than ideal (standing up, no flat horizontal surface readily available, moving car, etc.).

The thing that attracted me to the Moleskine in the first place still weighs heavily in its favor: the lined page available for each week. I have added the Day-Timer's notebook to my Day-Timer planner but having the note pages separate from the appointments is not ideal. Even so I think it is "good enough" for my use.

So the Day-Timer gets the nod because of its overall convenience: size, weight, stays open by itself. That's just for me. I can see how others might come to the reverse conclusion.

I use this every year
This planner is exactly what I wanted..... a week's worth of calendar slots on the left, a blank page on the right. The calendar slots just list the day & date (and the holiday, if applicable) - it does not break it down by hour or morning / evening. So you have lots of freedom to use it exactly as you'd like to. I haven't found any other calendar that gives you this much freedom to make extensive weekly notes and format as you'd like. This will be the third year in a row that I get one of these, and I rely on it daily. I carry it everywhere - it has my appointments, to-dos, and in the back section, which is all blank pages, I make lists such as Christmas present ideas, books to read, etc. Oh, and there is an attached ribbon to help you mark which week you are on.

Deducting a star because the first 18 pages or so of the journal is full of (IMO) pretty useless encyclopedia-type info like currency converters, time zone info, etc. Someone else may like that feature though. Also it's true that the binding can crack. I had the hardback in 2007 and ended up mending it with black electric tape from September onwards. I didn't mind, actually, but you may. The soft back version is more durable than the hardback, in my experience.

it's love
I love this planner. It's small and very practical...always love the pocket inside-good to put a few business cards in