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ConnectedText with mobile support? (Windows/iOS/Web)
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Posted by zoe
Apr 13, 2015 at 05:41 PM
Is there anything that has the power and flexibility of ConnectedText (image support, extremely robust markup options) but which I can access and/or update from my mobile device?
As has been discussed before, much of the preferred software in this space is Mac only, or Mac/iOS only. The options that are most attractive to me for Windows (ConnectedText, TheBrain), seem to have either NO mobile support or very spotty, buggy mobile support. For example, TheBrain’s iPhone app crashed repeatedly when I tried to test it through the company’s WebBrain interface.
I use Windows at work and at home, and have an iPhone for the mobile part of the equation. Also, I am limited in my ability to install software on my work machine (anything requiring admin-level installation requires a call to IT), so I want something I can also access on the web if possible, or by editing files stored in Dropbox.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Apr 13, 2015 at 06:06 PM
Hm, definitely a little restricted.
OneNote springs to mind. Beloved of IT departments, very powerful and available on multiple mobile platforms? And probably already on your PC…
Posted by MadaboutDana
Apr 13, 2015 at 06:06 PM
You can also create links between OneNote notes, add tags etc.; it’s a lot more powerful than you might think.
Posted by Dr Andus
Apr 13, 2015 at 11:10 PM
zoe wrote:
Is there anything that has the power and flexibility of ConnectedText
>(image support, extremely robust markup options) but which I can access
>and/or update from my mobile device?
I’ve been trying to find a solution to that for some time as well. I’m not interested in using another app. Then the question becomes, how to make CT portable, or how to access it remotely, or how to capture data with some other app and then load it into CT when I get home.
For now I’m stuck with leaving my home PC on and then accessing it via my Chromebook using the Chrome Remote Desktop (CRD) app. But my Chromebook is a 14” full size laptop, so it’s not with me all the time. For those situations then I use Google Keep on an Android tablet to capture notes and transfer them to CT later. Getting a smaller Chromebook (11”) might make it more bearable, though it might need to be tethered to an Android phone when away from wifi.
Another option might be to have a small but powerful ultrabook as the main machine, and then also use it as a desktop, by plugging it into monitors. But it’s still not as portable as a phone or a small tablet, and the SSD drives tend to be too small for long term data accumulation.
I do actually have a Win XP netbook that I take on longer trips, which has another copy of CT and which I sync with the PC when I get back, but this manual syncing is not very convenient.
Yet another option might be to use the USB version of CT on a thumb drive and stick it into a Windows tablet, but it’s got its own problems (e.g. links to files outside the drive would be broken when moving to a different PC).
The search continues…
Posted by Dr Andus
Apr 13, 2015 at 11:18 PM
Another possibility that has just occurred to me is to get into the habit of storing most of the external files that CT links to on the cloud (maybe Google Drive or Dropbox), and then CT’s footprint would get smaller, so it could indeed be kept on a small Windows tablet or an HP Stream 11 type Windows ‘chromebook.’
But I’m just wondering how quick such a system would be, if everything had to be downloaded from the cloud constantly. But maybe this is just my problem, as I use CT as a dashboard to my file system, at the moment linking to 52GB worth of files on my PC. It wouldn’t be a trivial matter to transfer all of that into the cloud (though ironically it’s already backed up on a cloud using yet another backup service…).