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Posted by Wes Perdue
Jan 29, 2010 at 09:00 PM
Steve,
I’m on the sideline on this one for sure. The Stevenote was a bit underwhelming to me, but I think the device has incredible potential. I’ll be keeping a close eye on it over the next few months.
Re iPhone outliners: I’ve moved stuff between OmniOutliner and CarbonFin it’s not too bad. However, I most often just use tab-indented notes in Evernote foir a quick indeted list.
Regards,
Wes
Posted by NW
Jan 29, 2010 at 10:25 PM
Interesting for sure. If only there were a version of PersonalBrain for iPhone/iPad, I’d be sold. I’ll wait to see how the HP Slate pans out.
Posted by Chris Thompson
Jan 29, 2010 at 10:47 PM
This is what I was thinking too. PersonalBrain, Curio, and especially Tinderbox would be fantastic on this type of device.
I was also impressed by how they rewrote/rethought the iWork wordprocessing/spreadsheets/presentations suite for a touch interface. It makes you wonder if TabletPC could have been more successful if Microsoft had done the same for Office, rather than just producing the rather unimaginative OneNote and leaving it at that.
—Chris
NW wrote:
>Interesting for sure. If only there were a version of PersonalBrain for iPhone/iPad,
>I’d be sold. I’ll wait to see how the HP Slate pans out.
Posted by Franz Grieser
Jan 30, 2010 at 01:41 PM
Hi.
I don’t expect to see iPad editions of Curio, Tinderbox, Scrivener, et.al. in the next few months: Keith Blount, the developer of Scrivener, said that he would have to write a S. for iPad completely from scratch. He depends heavily on the text editing subsystem of Mac OS X that is not available in the iPhone/iPad OS. I guess that will be the same for Tinderbox, Curio, etc.
Moreover: You need a large screen to take full advantage of Curio, Tinderbox and Scrivener. The 9.x inch display is too small to see more than the piece of information you are just working at.
So: In my eyes, an iPad may be a nice input device for jotting down notes and transfering them to the application in which you continue processing it. For this purpose, no iPad-native edition of Tinderbox or Scrivener is required. For Curio that may be different as the tablet can be useful for drawing.
My 2cts,
Franz
Posted by Hugh
Jan 30, 2010 at 02:42 PM
Someone on the Scrivener forum - it might have been you Franz, or possibly AmberV, I can’t remember - wrote that it is more of a consumer’s toy than a producer’s tool. That description makes sense to me.
However… that goes for iPad1. What about iPad2 or iPad3, which I can imagine will have enhanced capabilities such as multi-tasking, Flash and perhaps a camera? And the youngsters who meanwhile are bought it as a toy but then want to use it in class and later at work?
Barring disasters such as easily-crackable screens or exploding batteries - neither of which I expect from Apple - it will be interesting to see which small OS X developers will be the first to start to scale up their operations Evernote-wise to produce stripped-down versions of their software for the platform, in order to satisfy a demand which I think is likely to come.
H