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Posted by MadaboutDana
Jun 10, 2015 at 04:55 PM
I’ve just discovered a rather nice little app called MyMind for the iPad. It’s very nicely designed, and works in a very similar way to Tapose, although it’s actually much easier to use/understand.
Ironically, I discovered it while looking for the MacOS version of MyMind, which is an outliner/mind-mapper. But MyMind for iOS is a dual-pane note-taking app that can also access the web, Dropbox/Google Drive/iCloud, photos, audio, drawings and videos.
When I first started using it, it crashed a couple of times, but since then it’s been very stable. It’s beautifully designed, reducing the size of notes (which are rich-text, with a nice toolbar that appearing in editing mode) automatically as you drag the screen divider across the screen. You can take screen shots of websites (you can’t drag and drop stuff out of them, unfortunately, or at least I’ve not been able to), and automatically paste links etc. After assembling your notes, you can upload them to e.g. Dropbox as PDFs. You can apparently also import PDFs, and you can view notes/PDFs side by side, anticipating the new Apple iOS 9 split-screen feature that won’t be available for any iDevices except the iPad Air 2.
It’s a lovely app, and I don’t know why I haven’t discovered it before. More details at:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mymind/id735422952?mt=8
or the developer’s own website at
http://www.thisismymind.com
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 10, 2015 at 06:25 PM
Wow. Great find. I thought I’d looked at every iPad notebook app there is. Thanks for the heads up.
Steve Z.
Posted by jamesofford
Jun 11, 2015 at 11:39 AM
Slightly off topic-There are lots of apps out there that run on the iPad or iPhone or Android or even MacOs or Windows that use Dropbox. Most of the iOS apps these days can connect to iCloud. There are not nearly as many that can use Box. I have mentioned in the past that the University at which I work provides everyone-staff, faculty and students-with 50 gigs of storage space. With the 25 gig that I scored early on from Box, I now have 75 gig of storage on Box. All free. Why no support of Box, or at least, little support.
I realize that you have to start somewhere, and for iOS apps Dropbox and iCloud support right out of the box(So to speak.)makes sense. But even as apps mature, they seem to ignore the other cloud storage providers.
I have a huge amount of cloud storage space-25 gig on Onedrive, 15 gig on Copy, 25 gig on my personal Box space, 50 gig on my University Box space, and 15 gig on google drive. And I use all of them all the time. None is completely full(Except Dropbox, on which I only have 2.75 gig.)And I have a program on my Mac that allows me to access all of the different cloud storage systems like a local drive and transfer files back and forth(Cloud Commander). So, I can deal easily with the lack of support for other cloud services just by dragging things back and forth.
But it would be nice if Box was better supported by developers.
Jim
Posted by jamesofford
Jun 11, 2015 at 11:52 AM
I took a quick look at MyMind and Tapose, and both look interesting. I am in the process of re-evaluating my notetaking on my iPad. I have a copy of Notesuite that I have been using and I also have the Mac program. The nice thing about them is that you can sync them up so that you have the same set of notes on both your iOS device, and your computer. However, I ran into some trouble a while back and lost all my notes from the program. Everything was backed up, but it gave me some pause and I have been looking at my current notetaking environment. I have Quip on my Mac, and I like it, but no iOS app(Hint, hint). I have run Onenote in the past, and it worked okay, but it was a tad slow on both the mac and my iPad. Both MyMind and Tapose look interesting, I will probably take a look at both.
On another note-when I pulled up some webpages that referenced Tapose, they all mentioned Courier, the project that Microsoft teased us with a few years ago. Apparently Tapose is intended to act like Courier in many respects. I loved the idea of Courier, and still do.
However, according to the pieces that I read-admittedly several years old now-Tapose is not that good.
Does anyone have experience with Tapose, and can you comment on how well it works? Also, some commentary on MyMind would not come amiss.
Jim
Posted by jamesofford
Jun 11, 2015 at 11:55 AM
jamesofford wrote:
>I have mentioned in the past that the University
>at which I work provides everyone-staff, faculty and students-with 50
>gigs of storage space.
(Of course, I meant that they supply us with 50 gig of storage space on Box)
Just wanted to clarify.
>Jim