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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 15, 2012 at 05:33 AM
Let’s see if it turns out to be the love of your life or just an infatuation.
BTW, I made a couple of additions to the web text and then pressed Save. But then, after I refreshed, my contributions were no longer there. Is this a bug or intentional?
Posted by Franz Grieser
Sep 15, 2012 at 08:39 AM
Hm.
Cotton is a nice little outliner but on a par or even better than Ecco?
The edits I made last night to the web page Madaboutdana shared are gone, too.
Franz
Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 15, 2012 at 10:25 PM
Yeah, you’d think after 30-odd years of CRIMPing I wouldn’t fall for those long-limbed folds, those heavy-lidded hoists… but I did, and hey, inevitably it all looks a bit stale when you wake up in the morning… but it’s a great concept! It’s just that the whole web collaboration thing appears to be very unstable, and causes the app itself to become unstable, too. I had to uninstall and reinstall it in the end, because data was simply vanishing. The trouble is, I think once notes are “unlinked” from the web, they cease to be editable. Unfortunately there’s no way to get in touch with the developer, and there doesn’t appear to be any other way of getting info out of the app and into other apps (except for the web collaboration route).
But I’m keeping it going, because it’s very sexy and I still love it, and because once this dude has got his act together, it’ll be one of the most beautiful outlining apps of all time. Seriously!
And no, I didn’t mean it about Ecco Pro. I did have pizza last night, and I’m still feeling a bit… bloated.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 15, 2012 at 10:32 PM
By the way, the nice developers of BusyMe did reply, and my CRIMPer’s soul has been lifted by the news that they’re just about to introduce synching to the app (in fact the latest version should be out early next week - it’s already gone to Apple for approval). It’s one of the most intelligently designed task management apps I’ve found so far (and I’ve tried literally hundreds), with a very simple but very flexible interface that appeals both to those who prefer lists AND those who prefer calendars (oh, and even appeals to those who like tags, although the tag mechanism is somewhat limited, in that you can only set one tag at a time. Which is probably why they call them ‘contexts’ and not ‘tags’).
Grab it while the going’s good - it’s currently free! And definitely worth testing. I rate it well above popular TMs like Things, and also above the heavyweights like Pocket Informant and 2Do.
Posted by Dr Andus
Sep 15, 2012 at 11:20 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
>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.
I haven’t bought it but from the website it reminds me of Workflowy a bit. Wouldn’t Workflowy be more reliable at this stage of their respective developments?
>Grab it while the going’s good - it’s currently free! And definitely worth testing. I rate it well above popular TMs like Things, and also above the >heavyweights like Pocket Informant and 2Do.
Pocket Informant (or PI Pro as they call it now) has been the most disappointing iPad app for me so far. I have iPad 1 and everything works on it perfectly still except PI, which has always been far too slow. For a while I wasn’t even able to launch it. Though the latest database update seem to have improved things I have just grown to like the native iPad calendar instead.