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In the 2010 diary there were 6 outlook pages for 2011,
2 months per page, which was very useful for the advanced planning for the following year.
There is nothing similar in the 2011 diary, which I unfortunately noticed only after having purchsed it.
Otherwise I would have looked for an alternative.
This change was not a good idea and very disappointing.
Regards
Norbert Schlipkoether
Thanks for the feedback. That's why we decided to let them available for download here.
Regards,
Andrea
I´m really dissapointed about the layout change to the planning square section. One big goal about moleskine for me in the past years was that I could trust that nothing changes.
The templates you offer are a nice idea - but they are too small for the pocket size planner and if you glue over it it looks cheap.
For this year I made the compromise to cut out the 2011 section out of the 2010 calender and glued it to my new 2011 one. But for 2012 I will look for an alternative calender.
I need an overview per month and quarter year and the new design is not really helpful at all.
regards
Alex
I fully agree with Norbert - many people get appointments for the next year early and need to plan 2012 in 2011. Downloading, printing and gluing missing pages should not be the tasks of a user of a calender, instead the calender should include such basics.
I really like the surface feel, the size and the paper of your calenders and would highly appreciate if they would include in 2012 a comprehensive planning section for 2013 as well as more than just 6 blank pages for notes.
Also fully agree with Norbert! In our country Moleskine diary is quite expensive and I buy it mainly for it´s format and very functional horisontal planning calendar. I was really very disappointed with this radical change, which wasn´t noticed on packaging! I mean this idea came from man, who desn´t use paper diary at all! Change for change, there can´t be any other reason! Now I have to print some tamplates, cut it, it takes time and it looks non-professional! :-(
I was VERY disappointed recently when I opened the 2011 pocket planner/diary to find the forward planning horizontal pages were not included for 2011 qnd 2012. This format/layout change must not have been carefully analyzed. In many ways for me, this feature is the most valuable element of the Moleskine pocket edition.
Downloading templates is not a suitable substitute. To require users to download, cut and paste is not in keeping with the quality I expect from Moleskine. I urge you to return to the previous layout as soon as possible.
I, also, agree with Norbert's comments.
I often spend time searching out the proper horizontal layout in the pocket size as stock varies outlet to outlet. I was greatly dismayed when I opened my Moleskine to find the monthly overview format change. I am absolutely dissatisfied with the download template fix.
Year to year I purchase Moleskine notebooks for their consistency of quality and format, 2011: FAIL.
I love Moleskine products but struggle because my workweek begins on Sunday and goes to Saturday. I wish the templates included this style calendar or that you could change the arrangement of the days in the weekly template to begin with Sunday. It is the single reason I cannot use these as my regular planner as I cannot use a week at a glance on two pages.
I fully agree with all the comments made above. I also was very disappointed when I discovered that the outlook pages for the coming year were, surprisingly, not included anymore.
As a customer I accept, and even enjoy it, to mount up furnitures that I have to buy packed, as this is the philosophy of a certain company. But in the case of the Moleskine pocket planner I do not see that this is appropriate. It's out of style, the paper and the color is different and it's actually not my task.
Is there no way to include it again for 2012?
What happened guys!!! This change is not logical. The format for the pocket planner was perfect. Please, go back to the old format in 2012. For the rest, i downloaded the planning sheets and printed them out in adhesive paper. I know IT`s NOT THE SAME THING but it works. It´s a shame that i had to waits some pages to do something that you guys already had done.
Another agreement, this time from France. I'm a professor who switched to Moleskine a few years ago. I was very unpleasantly surprised in opening my new Moleskine gift last week. Like others, I am frustrated at the lack of horizontal planning. But I'm far more troubled by the lack of NO planning whatsoever for 2012. I have no place to plan my class and speaking engagements for the 2011-2012 beyond December.
Moleskine Staff, could you at least promise us that the old format will be restored next year (print & paste" is a very unsatisfactory solution)? If you can't do that, I'll just change brands now.
Another voice of disappointment. My Weekly XL Planner has been the only calendar I've used for three straight years. I'd even become a bit of an evangelist! But in my fourth year, I've had to draw in a 2012 calendar in the back pages (a weird omission). And the box format of the 2011 monthly calendar is proving a most difficult adjustment: with the previous format, I could easily see my travel schedule, which is now very difficult to note at a glance. Your cut-and-paste solution is just short of absurd -- a junky, clunky workaround that should never have been forced on loyal users. Shame, shame, shame!
Totally agree with comments above; and now have to download and stick in the horizontal planners for 2011 and 2012 - these used to be essential and easy to use components of this diary before - and one of the main reasons I have bought this one for many years now. I urge MSK to revert to this format for 2012, and to acknowledge that this year's change was a mistake.
Before I read this, I too experienced the disappointment in finding that the horizontal planner was replaced by the boxed one and that a 2012 preview was missing altogether. I too glued in the 2011 horizontal planner after tearing it out from my 2010 diary, but it is not really satisfactory as regards the otherwise so refined look of the Moleskine diaries - one of the many reasons I love Moleskine. Upon sending a statement about my complaint, I received a very nice, personalised reply within 24 hours - excellent support - and the link to here, where I can download the old design. But I agree that it is not the same and I do not have that lovely chamois coloured paper (contemplating buying some extra for this purpose, but that does not help for the missing 2012 outlook and really, I should not have to go to further expenses).
So, dear Moleskinians there, please rethink that "improvement" since so many of your most dedicated users prefer the old version of the horizontal planner. Do also include a 2013 outlook again next year, please, please.
In your mail to me you argue that the boxed version facilitates "a better glance of the month and allows more space for drawings and the use of stickers." I do not think so. The glance of the month (and two months to the page) was better before, the boxes do not yield well to writing stuff in, I cannot mark time spans by a through-going line, I cannot capture the passage of one week in relation to the other - from Saturday to Saturday, say. There is not enough spaces in the boxes to contain drawings or stickers either, I think.
They say: Never change a running system or When it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Let's be true Moleskinian traditionalists, shall we? Please. Innovation can take place by way of your great range of specialised "diaries" and other useful inventions.
Cheers!
They say
Regarding the omission of the forward planning pages in the 2011 diary--I agree with everyone here--VERY disappointing. I've loved using the diary for work, it always looked so organized, professional, and of quality. It was perfect.
After gluing in the much needed forward planning pages my diary looks so cheap. I'm embarrassed to have it out at meetings, it looks so unprofessional. Extra writing pages are valuable in these--now I've lost pages I used to plan projects. I contemplate looking for another agenda as it's early enough in the year to bail.
Please, please, please reconsider this change.
Totally agree with all the comments above. I appreciate the wonderful customer service and the link your rep provided, but am asking PLEASE for the old format to be return for 2012. It's not a bad fix and I appreciate the templates, but it really do take away from the paper (which of course is one of my primary reasons for buying your products) and clean look.
I agree with everyone's comments. One of the major attractions of this format for me was the ability to have 2 years of monthly pages to complete planning.
Not sure what prompted the change but please reconsider going back to the old format for 2012. The format was much more workable and the ability to note information for the next year was incredibly useful.
Full agreement with all comments of those above, beginning with S. Norbert. I have religiously enjoyed and used Moleskine for years...Tom Blanchard most concisely expresses my thoughts on this change: if I don't have the option to have the "old format," I'll change brands now...I don't buy Moleskine products to have to subsequently download, print, cut, and glue pages into them. Thank you.
Today I saw the 18-month version of the 2011-12 diary/planner at a local bookstore. The forward planning sections missing from the 2011 version ARE STILL MISSING in 2011-12 (I assume that also applies to the 12-month version.) No evident change in the design for 2011-12. Apparently the dissatisfaction we expressed went unheeded. Therefore, if you intend to use Moleskine for 2011-12, more "cut and paste" will be necessary for forward planning.
@Gene
Thanks for your feedback.
We are in a continuous process of making our products better and better.
That said, we are taking in consideration all the feedbacks that are coming from you expecially from the Web.
Andrea
Thank you for your response. However, it is vague and does not address the concern many of us have expressed about the elimination of the horizontal forward planning sections in the pocket diary/planner 2011.
Will the 2012 version of the pocket diary/planner include the two years forward section which has made the Moleskine product an attraction for many users in past years? Or will downloading, cut and paste be required for 2012? If the "tried and true" horizontal planning sections will not be reinstated, I must begin shopping for a replacement for the Moleskine product.
@Gene,
At this time we do not have an official plan for the future release of the planning section.
That said, we will inform you as soon as we have this kind of information.
So far, you can go and download the MSK format for the old horizontal planning here:
http://bit.ly/9v48lI
Thanks,
Andrea
Thank you for your reply. However, I am very disappointed that the horizontal forward planning sections will not be included in the 2012 pocket diary/planner. The decision to eliminate that asset was a poor one.
I hope other users will comment.
Gene and others,
I just received my 2012 Weekly planner from Amazon. Sorry to say, as you suspected, that there is NO 2-year planner, nothing at all for scheduling in 2013. This makes it very difficult for us who are teachers and speakers (and I'm sure, many others). Last year I printed, cut and pasted. I will not do it again this year. There are other diaries available, and I'll give this one away and go shopping. By the way, the 2012 monthly view is still in the large blocks, not the old format which most of us preferred.
To the Moleskine staff, you said you were trying to make your products "better and better," yet we on this post unanimously thought those changes made things worse. You're losing your faithful customers.
@Tom and Gene,
The requests for a return to the previous layout are many and our editorial office is working to plan agendas 2013 to meet these demands. We will keep you updated on new solutions we are planning.
Thanks,
Andrea
What a pity - such nice product changed to the worse. So many people complaint back in 2010 about the missing planning section in 2011 for next year. A lot of customers were disappointed. However, the 2012 still has no planning section for 2013 and Moleskine one more customers less.
Will you provide "paste in" horizontal planning sections via download for the 2012 Weekly Notebook Diary/Planner as you did for 2011?
Thank you.
Very dissapointing to discover that the Weekly Notebook Diary Planner 2012, planner pages, still have the 'new' large block layout, which is not at all as user-friendly as the original horizontal design. The paste-in pages are welcome, but a definite botch solution in my view and made my planner pages difficult to leaf through last year. I will check next year but reluctantly change if you cannot repsond to what appears to be a unanimous call from your customers to revert to the style which we all used found useful. Why change something if it worked so well? Quite beyond me.
Thank you
David
Hello David,
The requests for a return to the previous layout are many and our editorial office is working to plan agendas 2013 to meet these demands. We will keep you updated on new solutions we are planning.
Thanks,
Andrea