Moleskine Academic Weekly Notebook July 2009 - December 2010 18 Month Soft Black Large (Moleskine Srl)

For me, at least.

I need a paper planner for a number of reasons, but the most important to me is that I'm a tactile kind of person and like to hold the book not look at a screen, and that the act of writing helps me remember appointments and tasks where typing does not.

The seven days of the week on one side and a lined page on the other is the best format for me. I have relatively few appointments, but many tasks per week that go on the lined page.

I've had Moleskine products with the soft cover, and they are OK for light use, but I carry and use a planner almost constantly. This lost the planner a half a star. Regardless, the hard cover stands up to this use better.

Other planners have the address book that slips into the pocket in back. I miss that, and that is what lost this product the rest of that star.

The pocket size (3.5 in by 5.5 in)just doesn't have enough space, and if I cram it, the writing is too...Read more

I really love the format of this planner, a weekly view with a full page for notes.

My only problem with it is, unfortunately, a kind of big deal to me. This softcover planner uses a lower quality paper than the regular Moleskine notebooks. The pages are noticeably more thin, so the ink from my favorite brand of pen shows through. Whenever I turn to a fresh, new week, I can see all my notes from the week before.

It's taken me years to find a brand of pen that I love (and they work just fine in the normal Moleskines), so carrying around something with lighter ink suitable for these thin pages doesn't appeal to me. It's easier just to get a different planner.

This Moleskine was exactly what I wanted. The layout is perfect: one page with week-view and the facing page lined for notes/tasks.

There is a small pocket on the inside of the back cover that makes flipping through the notebook a little difficult. But how often would you actually be flipping through it? The pocket is nice to have to store a few small sheets of loose paper.

And the size, 8.2 x 5.2 inches, is small enough that you can carry it basically anywhere and large enough that you have plenty of room to write.