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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 30, 2012 at 05:34 PM
I post here for reference, a few information management applications I have come across here or elsewhere, allowing one to work across the three platforms of my choice. There’s bound to be others, but I’ve limited my self to those working with Android 2.1 which should cover most users.
As a bonus, they are also available for Mac:
- B-Folders - discussed here in the past, it’s got strong encryption and syncs among your devices via LAN, without giving any servers access to your stuff.
- MyShelf - a virtual corkboard for info, as recently discussed. I’m quite surprised I had not ran into this before. Like B-Folders, it syncs among devices without resorting to The Cloud.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.encomit.apps.myshelf
http://www.encomit.de/myshelf/index.html
- Notecase Pro - see relevant thread
http://virtual-sky.com/
- Vault 3 - mentioned in the Notecase Pro thread; a ‘classic’ outliner making a comeback
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ericbt.Vault3Paid
http://www.ericbt.com/Vault3
- Wikidpad - well known and beloved by many; Android app is in Alpha as yet
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.mbutscher.wikiandpad.alphabeta
http://wikidpad.sourceforge.net/
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 30, 2012 at 08:29 PM
Missing links to B-Folders
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jointlogic.bfolders.android
http://jointlogic.com/b-folders/
Posted by Carrot
Oct 31, 2012 at 04:47 AM
Keepnote is still actively developed and has far more to offer than “The Guide”.
It runs on Mac, Windows, Linux and there is talk of getting it running on Android.
I tried NotecasePro many times, but honestly could not really see what advantages it offered over the open-source Keepnote program.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 3, 2012 at 03:30 PM
Thanks for the heads up on Keepnote. It’s been mentioned here in the past, and I’ve actually glanced at it before. But within the present context two of its characteristics become quite interesting: (a) it is a three-pane outliner (tree, list of items and detail) which means that it can handle really large amounts of data and (b) it keeps its data in individual files which can themselves be accessed by my Android via Dropbox.
I’m not sure how the Android client would work, unless it includes some kind of direct Dropbox integration, i.e. on-demand downloading of required files. Keeping the Keepnote file folders in Dropbox alone would probably not suffice, as long as Dropbox in Android only downloads the files one specifically requests.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 3, 2012 at 03:43 PM
I found a quite good task manager Task Unifier which works in Linux, Mac and Windows and syncs with Toodledo. There are quite a few task managers for Android (too many to mention in fact) which sync with Toodledo.
I think this is actually a very interesting and usable model of multi-platform access:
- Popular service for web access and syncing
- Desktop client by one developer
- Android client by other developer
Admittedly, the popularity of Toodledo and Google Tasks makes such options more easily available for task management than other areas.