Columned Outliner, like ListPro & Omni Outliner, that crosses the iPad/Windows barrier?

Posted by MadaboutDana
May 15, 2012 at 02:09 PM

Yo’ welcome, Other Bill,

And Alexander: yes, ListPro does run on iPad, but it’s horrible. It’s also horrible on the iPhone, in fact, but on the iPad it’s particularly horrible because it makes no effort to use the screen space - all you’ve got is a magnified iPhone app.

The app I’m having most fun playing with at the moment is Notebooks (by Alfons Schmidt) and a very interesting - but rather unstable - app by an ex-Microsoft team called Tapos?. The advantage of Tapos? is that it shows two pages side by side, and can also split in half to show a web browser (or another Tapos? “book”, or a number of other things) in a split-screen view. It’s a very nice attempt to achieve multi-window working on the iPad.

Mind you, it doesn’t synchronise with anything - Alfons is promising a Windows Desktop app for Notebooks, which will be brilliant, and even Circus Pony Notebooks (which can also show two pages at a time) has a Mac client.

As I said before, there are serious opportunities here for Windows-iOS interaction, going well beyond the ridiculous hype associated with the mere possibility that Microsoft might, eventually, if the wind is in the North-East, the cock crows thrice and the cat walks widdershins round the graveyard, produce a version of Office for the iPad.
Yeah, right! Like I bet that’s at the top of Steve Balmer’s to-do list… (“must give Apple more traction in the enterprise…”)