Moleskine Journey Life Planner Reviews

by DarthArk

After using Timepage and Actions I had high expectations for Journey. It had everything I need plus the functionality of adding Projects and Journals all in one place.
However ever since my trial expired and I committed to a one year subscription, I’ve had nothing but issues with the Planner card , which is the most important function of MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner to me. Using multiple devices (iOS, IPadOS, and MacOS) the apps never sync properly. Sometimes it pulls calendar items but most of the time it does not. I’m finding myself having to create new events on iOS Calendar just to make sure my event is available on all my devices.
Reminders are another thing that never sync properly. I can have a task on one device but it not show up on the others.
I don’t think I will be resubscribing due to the missed critical events from this issue. I just wish I knew this in the trial and wasn’t out $20 for the year.

by Coftn

3/29 - amendment to my previous review: Recent update(?) has pretty much ruined MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner for me. SO disappointed! Now I have to click multiple times, swipe and other garbage to make a simple entry in the My Day habits and trackers. The Mood tracker - used to be so easy to click an icon - now opens another box, swipe, click, blah blah blah. Simple is better; this update is awful. Adding photos is buggy. Using it in general is a headache compared to prior version. Now thinking I wasted my money for subscription.

Previous version ( No longer valid)
I rarely find apps worthy of writing a review, but this will be one of them. Absolutely the perfect app for me! Clean layout, easy to use and customize, simple to keep track of all the things I need everyday - tasks, habits, projects, journal, wellness, gratitude, and even adding photos from the day or for projects, etc. perfect to sync between my iPad and phone. So helpful for my creative/maker projects and lists. Over the years, I have never been able to find a journal/organizer app that has worked as well for me as analog/paper ... but I think this is THE one. Kudos to the creators!

by Nyerish_

I love the concept behind this entire app. I love the idea of having so much functionality and organization in one, central place. However, the amount of glitching is driving me crazy. Maybe this is just a temporary thing, and I’ll try to stick it out, but it definitely needs to be fixed.

Another issue I’ve had is that some of the functionality of the features is kind of unclear. It took me embarrassingly long to figure out that the challenges were habit trackers, and I would much prefer it if they could all be grouped together. Also it’d be nice to have a bit more options with it, like to set specific days or amount of times you want to complete it in certain time frames. And for some real icing on the cake, I’d love to have the option to track my water and have it add data to the health app. As for the tasks, I think I’d like it better if it was combined with projects, and I really wish it had a working option to set some tasks to be recurring.

On another note, I’m not 100% sure what to use the goals for, and I’d appreciate some clarify on that.

Finally, please please please make a watch app! It really would make my day.

by CadenYoung

I got the trial on iPad and it looks beautiful. And I’d much rather have one app instead of 2 with Moleskine Timepage and actions. However first of all it’s too difficult to access the monthly calendar view. I would love the swipes like in Timepage, a button near the calendar, or the ability to tap the calendar to expand it. In addition it’s too difficult to delete tasks. These are things that change a ton. So it should only take a swipe to delete. Perhaps you could add an undo button (or use Apple’s undo) instead of having to confirm deletion. Lastly there are just too many options on the right/edit swipe. It’s confusing. And too many categories, especially for something simple like tasks. If this could be simplified it’d be a lot more usable.

by Carolicious74

Ever since I discovered MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner, I’ve been dreaming of the potential it could reach! Amazing features and flexibility that I think we’ve all been looking for but couldn’t find in all the other similar apps out there. It seriously could be so incredible if it weren’t for the constant bugs and the slow loading and syncing times. These issues prevent me from being able to rely on Journey and it makes me really sad since I really want to be able to use this as my primary task and journaling app to organize my chaotic life. I haven’t given up on it yet though, so please, keep continuing to develop and make improvements - especially in regards to the loading speed! Thanks!

by Rissahoo

Journey is one of those magical apps that provides what I’ve been looking for for years, even though I had never quite figured out for myself what I needed. (My search for good task management started with a Palm Pilot.) This turns out to be the customizable My Day view, which shows my tasks for the day, calendars (four of them, from various sources), habits that I’m working on, and ongoing projects, all in a single view.

One major thing missing, which cost MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner a star, is the ability to integrate with my existing Reminders. Although Reminders has never worked for me for daily task management, I do use it for tracking long-term tasks, like changing the heater filter half-way through winter every year. Because these are long-term tasks, it’s important to me to keep them in a shared location that follows me wherever my task and calendar management wander.

In the “would be nice” category, I would like the ability to exclude specific Planner events from the My Day view. Since most of my calendars are shared, they include some events that are there for other people - *I* don’t need to be reminded when my work day begins and ends each day, for example.

by Ramin2019

I really love this application. After trying so many different apps, I was looking for one that combines everything (task, planner, notes, journalizing etc) and this has it all!
One recommendation would be that for journalizing and creative writing, the notes window needs to expand. Right now it appears in the middle and I’m distracted by the other features of MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner while taking notes (calendar, sidebar). When journalizing and creating writing, the note window should be the only thing visible on the screen so that you can think and write without any distractions on the screen.
Journalizing, creative writing, note taking; would be a better experience once this feature has been updated :)

by MauraA8

Just downloaded and am very excited by what I’ve seen so far. Simple and intuitive, and I love being able to incorporate the journaling aspects in with the productivity sides - it is feeding both left and right brain!
One area of opportunity that I feel is sorely lacking in pretty much any product in this space - give me the ability to estimate how long a task will take. Just like with any budget, time is limited so I need to not only know what time I’m going to do something, but how long it will last (event) or how long it will take to complete (task). Almost always the option is there for an event, but to truly maximize productivity I need to time-block with clear things to do in that time. It also helps to be able to have an easy to sort way to see my “10 mins or less” tasks if a meeting happens to end early. These simple adds would keep me making progress on the important tasks and not just defaulting back to checking emails.

Thank you!

by AmyB8484

Update: love, love, love the new colored themes!

I’m updating my review now that I’ve been using MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner for a few months. It has really changed my life. At first I thought it would just be cool for journaling, but instead I ended up using it as a to-do app, planner, and habit and goal tracker. I’ve never managed to stick to a to-do app for this long.

One reason is that it’s so visually pleasing and it gives you SO many options about how you want it to look. It’s great for a creative and/or visually-oriented person. It has so many possibilities because it’s so customizable. It really lets you set up your own system. I love that you can put a task, a link, a picture, or text, because there’s so much more you can do with it than the average to-do app.

There are a few small things I wish were different, but they’re not a big enough deal to affect my rating. I wish you could attach a project to Today indefinitely, so it’ll show up every day on your list without you having to attach it manually every day. And I wish you could give a task subtasks. That’s about it.

Overall great app. I hope it never goes away.

by Alevinsheffield

Truly MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner I’ve been dreaming about. This is a wonderful app that centralizes so many once scattered functions, like calendar, notes, reminders, project planning etc. As long as MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner continues to develop and update I could really see it becoming integrated with my day to day life and an essential tool for keeping things organized and stress free. So excited to see where MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner goes. A few things: please integrate attachments into tasks more efficiently. Why should you have to edit the task in order to see your attachments? It’s really counter productive and defeats the purpose of adding attachments in the first place. Also, if you link a project to a date that date should be visible either on the projects homepage or at least once you click into a project. Not being able to view and sort your projects by date is silly and once again counterproductive. Hoping these things can get fixed and giving 5 stars because MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner is still light years ahead of everyone else in terms of innovation, creativity and design. THANK YOU

by Shanekes

MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner does a fantastic job of putting everything I need to plan and execute on a perfect day all in one place instead of juggling a separate app for calendar to dos journaling habit tracking etc. the only things missing to make this near perfect would be widgets taking advantage of the new iOS 15 on the level moleskin does with Timepage then add this to the moleskin studio bundle and integrate with actions and Timepage as well so regardless of which one I am using they are working together and not having their own separate to do lists etc.

by Lianaleslie

Without my calendar, my to-do lists and my journal, my life falls apart. Up until this point, I cobbled together a structure to support myself out of several apps. It worked, yes, but it was always obvious that it could work better. I tried several organization apps hoping that they would fulfill my needs, but all of them were disappointing.

Journey is just what I’ve always hoped for! One app which displays the day’s schedule, my daily chores list, the tasks I want to do today and this week, my morning journal, my food log, my gratitude list and my most important daily goals. It sounds like it might be trying to do too much, but in practice it is perfectly streamlined and and usable. That’s because of the flexible habit system, which allows you to display and customize precisely what you find most useful. Sick of practicing gratitude or journaling? It’s really just a free-form text field that resets each day: call it whatever you want and write whatever you want in there.

In the week I’ve been using Journey, I’ve taken my old, scattered systems and turned them into one easy-to-access system that’s made me much more productive. It’s well worth the subscription and the time it took to learn to use the program and rework my daily habits.

by HarletLooWho

I rarely write reviews but MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner is literally a life changer for me! As someone who struggles with executive functioning, needing multiple apps to manage my life only made things more challenging for me. Being able to have everything in one place allows me to be so much more productive and to be able to actually remember things. I often use Siri to add reminders and to do’s, then it’s super easy for me to not miss things that need to be done.

Having my planner, to do list and workspaces in the same app as my habit tracker, journal, gratitude journal, mood tracker and goals encourages me to be more consistent with those things which is so beneficial. I don’t know how I lived without MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner!!

by Daisy5th

Edit: the changes in the current update are exactly what I needed! I really love using MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner to organize my days, projects, habits. I am more productive than I was with my old todo list, and I’ve been recommending MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner to people. Thanks for listening to feedback and making MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner compact again. Seeing the day at a glance (as well as goals and habits) is helping me a lot!

I still am using it. BUT,the update for “readability” made it so that I have to scroll a lot more to see my day. There are huge breaks between the events on my calendar (as well as between todo items), which is totally unnecessary. I strongly prefer to see the day in more compact form. Please, either change the format again or give users options for a more compact or more spread out view, as many other apps do.

by BossKlaus

I am a person who has struggled to stay on top of things all my life, and I’ve found that using to do apps religiously helped me manage my forgetfulness and my ADHD brain.

However, I always felt apps fell short. There would always be something they DIDNT do well that bothered me and I always wished I had something that felt more like a Day Planner and journal — or just a full on life dashboard.

What makes this great is how infinitely customisable it is. You can take anything on or off, rearrange it and color it any way you like.

That’s what Moleskine has made with Moleskine journey. This is truly your life dashboard. It integrates with your calendar, has a robust planner built in that rivals TickTick, Todoist and Things 3 (though it does lack subtasks, so that could use an update)

The project functionality is where it’s at though. By having projects be a space for tasks, notes, PDFs, links, you can truly lay it all out.

What makes this the best though is how much of an emphasis is placed on wellness AND productivity. Gratitude diaries alongside my to dos. A sketch space for my ideas or thoughts when I’m on my iPad. It’s beautiful.

I love Moleskine Journey and I feel like my journey of finding the true all in one life manager is finally at an end. This is MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner for me!

by Joshu1111

I’ve been using MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner for a few months now, and it’s totally transformed my journaling habit. Now it’s so easy to both track my daily tasks, and take notes on my various practices. It’s like to do list meets goal setting meets habit tracking meets any type of journaling you want to do on the daily.

It’s helped me to merge my spiritual practice, self development, with my practical business and task management side… which is huge for me staying organized with the type of life I live and work I do. I haven’t found anything else like this, and have checked out so many different journaling and productivity apps over the years.

If you’re an entrepreneur or run your own service based business, that even blends with your life-style, this is an amazing way to track your development. I highly recommend

by LeHerisson 🦔

I have been searching an app like this for years from MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner store and finally I got this one.

Such a perfect and ultimate solution as an all-in-one app! What I really like is that I can use a planner with to-do-list, habit tracker, diary, and note everything that I want in one app, not using several apps to do that. That’s what exactly I’ve done it with my paper planner like Francklin Planner but I really needed the digital version working and synchronizing on all my devices, Mac , iPad and iPhone. That’s why I could not use Moleskin Timepage as they only have a planner or calendar but not tasks or to-do but I am so thrilled to finally find MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner. I’ve explored a lot of other apps but no others have satisfied all my needs only in one app.

Greatly appreciate the team for this wonderful work and am looking forward to MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner to be further developed. I will also make suggestions while using.

by Kylee_ak

It’s a great app that combines features from pages and notes for iOS. Before MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner I was always trying to pick which app (notes or pages) I wanted to use for my thoughts/projects/notes etc. now I can have the customization of pages in an easy to navigate layout like notes but better because with Journey you have options for what layout such as planner,project,tasks I want to use. I’ve been redecorating my house and I’ve created a “Project” where I can design and display color combinations (you have every color imaginable to choose from), I can write notes and then highlight or draw over my notes (instead of only underneath or above) or I can change my notes to tasks with lots of settings for reminders, design, export, description. If I want to share my project with my partner I can do that too! I’m honestly really looking forward to what MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner will offer in the future.

by MorphingBohemian

“Oh how excellent!”... that’s what slipped out from me when I realized what all MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner does! And that’s not usual language for me! This definitely replaces my paper planner I loved and depended on for so long. It lists appointments from your calendar (or calendars...configurable) pleasingly with your reminders & tasks you set for the day. By default, this is preceded by an overarching goal or goals for the day. (I titled mine “Goals and Aspirations”...it’s all configurable.) Scrolling vertically I then see challenges (basically like a habit tracker, things like “Do the workouts”). What about Diary / Work Record you say? Next comes a text area for that with an ingenious Time-Stamp shortcut to begin your entries. You can plant Tasks and Events on future days (just like with a paper planner)! Oh, and it’s searchable!!! You’ll have to explore a little to get the hang of all of it, but it’s worth it. I sure don’t mind paying for MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner. It doesn’t cost any more than my paper planners used to. I plan to depend on this one. I hope it never goes away!

by Tomásito HGPez

With the simplicity of MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner ; the very calming interface; the open-nature of the task lists (ie not being pigeon-holed into lists of pre-defined menu items... for expame daily tasks is wide open but with tags and setting recurring reminders a simple journal entry can be used to prompt a follow-up in reminders and a sketch is perfect for capturing ideas /concepts that you want to make visually without words... I am also super impressed that the UI is streamlined of a bazillion settings and doesn’t force integrate with actions & timeline... both which I like but found clunky to just simply jump in and use from iPhone. And there’s more! A ready to use macOS app or webOS if desired! Bravissimo Moleskine! You just won me over and I’ll be more than happy to donate the sub fee you saved me & donate it to an olive tree of your choosing🦜🛵...

by Emmi Wills

I really like the concept and design of Moleskine Journey and wish I could keep using it, but I won’t for the following reasons:
- subscription-only: I see that the developers need to earn their money, but a business model as employed in Agenda (you pay every 12 months but get to keep the features you paid for if you stop paying) would be great; also, the subscription price is too high for what it is
- the subscription-only model becomes even more problematic because Journey effectively locks your data in MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner - the export functions don’t cover a lot of ground and it is virtually impossible to bulk-export your entries. Imagine the situation you’re in if you ever decide to abandon MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner after entering a lot of information into it!
- internet-only: iCloud-syncing is nice, but it’s problematic that you need internet access to both write and read any of you entries; makes it impossible to edit on trips abroad without internet or in the countryside

Overall, I like it a lot but feel locked in a business-model and data-format that does not seem future-proof to me.

by Thaumata

I normally subscribe annually to DayOne for journaling and so far Journey just doesn’t hold up. It feels clunky to add links to my post, for example. It doesn’t integrate with other moleskin apps like actions or Timepage, and I didn’t see enough info about how it syncs posts or how to export my data all at once. You can’t create multiple journals and the todo lists are kind of sub-list based which means a lot of clicking through to get to the meat. It feels like moleskine is trying too hard to get the yoga mom crowd and putting functionality second. I’ll give it a miss.

by Tomtwiffic

Today’s update for the iPad makes an already great app even more of pleasure to use! I love how MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner can track my moods, habits, various journals, to dos and projects all in one convenient and beautiful app. I know people may not like having to pay for MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner , but the developers are incredibly responsive. They listen to customer feedback and are constantly updating MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner (check out the change log is you doubt me). Each update brings this closer to the masterpiece I know it can become. Keep up the great work!

by Katlady

I love MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner so much! I signed up for the pro subscription the first day. I can’t wait to see how it grows and updates. There is some lag when saving/syncing changes, but then again my internet operates at the speed of smell on a good day. 😁

I’d like to see more modules to add to the trackers page, maybe one to add custom tags to a date which would be handy for health tracking? There is so much room for growth with this framework.

Thank you guys so much for this gem!

by Cinnamonrat

I don’t normally write app reviews, but MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner has simplified my life, it’s worth my time to write one. I can easily capture my agenda, handwritten notes, photos and attachments in one place. I can keep tasks for each project I’m working on separated by color but still together in one place. I’ve been using MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner to track several freelance projects and my family’s schedule all while adding a photo of the day. I can’t see myself spending money on any other time management OR personal reflection app.

by Rayillest

I was looking for different apps to maintain a mood journal, daily tasks, to dos, and notes. Then I found MoleskineJourneyLifePlanner, and it has everything I need. It’s the 1st and last app I use everyday.

So far I’ve noticed a few things that aren’t as intuitive, like the planner in vertical view should be sorted by time. Also I’m not finding the task tab very useful, it’s only showing me old tasks for some reason (might be user error). Overall this is a solid app, I look forward to the updates and fixes along the way.

Cheers to the dev squad!

by Aquitaine49

I am so happy to be able to sit with my coffee in the morning and get an overview of what I am doing, what I need to do, what I’d like to do and jot down how I feel about it all! I don’t need a complicated system and this is not. Taking awhile to figure out how to use options within Groups. I also asked the developer for a printing functionality. I like to keep a hard paper journal and would like this option. The best ever for me! Can’t wait for upgrades. Oh and I never subscribe right out of the gate. I did for Moleskin!

by Birdlady2012

I finally found the perfect app to replace my paper planner!

I love the ability to track my habits alongside my calendar and my notes. Big plus is that it works with my iPad and MacBook so I can consistently check, add, or edit items regardless of the device I’m on.

Submitted feedback to them and their team was very responsive. Overall, very pleased with this purchase.