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Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 14, 2012 at 08:46 PM
Whoa, dudes! My evening is complete! I am in CRIMP heaven! I’ve just discovered the most gorgeous little outliner for iPads (and iPhones, in fact). It’s so professional it’s ridiculous. And it’s on special offer at the moment!
It’s called Cotton, and it’s a deceptively simple outliner app. But it does a lot more than most iOS outliners (which I find, generally speaking, rather disappointing). It doesn’t just fold, it allows you to hoist, too. But it also allows you to add tags. And, comble des combles, it allows you to turn notes into tasks, with an elegant little ‘agenda’ view to show you what due dates you’ve set.
Finally, it actually has a competent search function that allows you to zoom straight to relevant notes by finding and then tapping on them!
Actually, that’s not quite final. It also allows you to post your notes on the web, although the feature is still in beta. But if you visit the developer’s website, cottonnotes.com, you’ll see what I believe the author has in mind. It’s like a kind of idealised version of the good ole’ outlining concepts David Winer still writes about. I’m so impressed!
Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 14, 2012 at 08:50 PM
Actually, my CRIMPness has been further enhanced by the recent discovery of another little app - this time a dedicated task/calendar manager that also happens to be an outliner (with folding and hoisting, too!). Unfortunately it doesn’t yet support any kind of synchronisation or backup (not even e-mail), which makes it a bit precarious to rely on. But it’s a very professional piece of software, with a lovely interface that’s been honed down to an utterly simple paradigm (inbox, folders, tags, calendar and overdue). It’s called BusyMe, and once again, it’s optimised for iPads. The developers appear to be Latvian - I’ve written to them, but not had a reply yet.
There’s also a website at busymeapp.com (the developers are at eurocode.lv).
Enjoy!
Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 14, 2012 at 08:59 PM
Blimey! Cotton also allows you to collaborate on your notes through a web page, although it doesn’t appear to sync back with the app (probably just as well!). Here’s a note I posted (the content is totally random): you can have a play at editing it online if you want to:
http://www.cottonnotes.com/editnote/A2539502-F7FE-4848-B557-D6CCDD9E5893
Tasks and pictures don’t show up, but you can add tags.
This is quite one of the most entertaining CRIMPer solutions I’ve ever encountered! It’s even more entertaining than Ecco Pro!
Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 14, 2012 at 09:39 PM
I see in principle that edits online should be carried back into the app! Impressive - if it worked. But it doesn’t (yet). In fact, I’ve had one crash where the note that I’d just uploaded to the web completely vanished, and so did the web version. Ah well. On the other hand, I see that one of you (or perhaps several of you?) has/have been playing with the note I included in an earlier post for experimentation! See? Isn’t that clever?
Posted by Ken
Sep 15, 2012 at 01:22 AM
” It’s even more entertaining than Ecco Pro!”
That’s a pretty tall order, Bill! Are you sure you did not eat any of that pizza that you listed in your sample note? ;)
—Ken