Hemingway loved Moleskine. He wasn't alone. Generations of great American writers, poets, journalists, and men with ideas have relied on the simple notebooks—usually cream lined paper wrapped in soft oilskin cloth—to make sense of the world. Whether pocket size or oversize, a Moleskine notebook has always been both reliable and stylish. So it's nice to see that the iconic brand is taking steps to embrace modern technology and adapt to the way we take notes now.

Moleskine has partnered with wizard penmakers Livescribe to create a line of "Livescribe Notebooks." While they may look like traditional Moleskines on the surface, the pages are built to sync with a Livescribe smartpen, a tool that has won over many ink-stained wretches in the writing industry. For starters, Livescribe pens come equipped with a small microphone that allows you to record live interviews while simultaneously taking notes on paper. The pens also allow you to flag particular quotes, ideas, or benchmarks for later reference.

The new notebooks will support all of the above technology, plus let you digitally replicate an entire page of notes with a simple tap. Through integration with the app Evernote, writers will now be able to back up their Moleskine pages in the cloud and access them later on a tablet.

Meanwhile, the reliable covers remain. It's still a Moleskine, after all.

John Hendrickson Deputy Editor John Hendrickson is the Deputy Editor of Esquire.com, where he oversees the site's 24/7 news operation as well as all politics coverage.

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