While many of us spend our days with our fingers on the keyboard and our eyes on the display, some people still prefer a more old-fashioned means of idea generating and communicating: paper and pen. This is why companies such as Molskine, which sells what can be described as high-end notebooks, have hit a successful niche.

As a compromise between yesterday’s and today’s writing technologies, Molskine recently introduced its Smart Writing Set, which includes the Pen+, a version of the Neo Smartpen N2, and a notebook designed to be used with the Pen+ (and which, according to Moleskine’s PR, “is purposefully designed with extended rounded edges to look like a tablet”). The Pen+ works with a mobile app to record everything you write in the notebook in digital format. It currently sells for $199 (vendor price).

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