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Are Android and Ipad Apps being overlooked (in the community) in terms of intuitiveness?
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Posted by Paul Korm
Oct 9, 2015 at 02:19 PM
LOL —kind of a “save-the-topic” approach to forums, similar to those odd “save-the-date” announcements for weddings
Foolness wrote:
>Sometimes (well often times) I find that I rarely get the patience to
>make my own topic only to see it get few replies and that, nowadays, I
>rather make sure that someone else is interested first.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Oct 9, 2015 at 03:04 PM
I’ve resolutely abandoned Android since Samsung stopped updating my lovely Galaxy Note less than 12 months after I bought it (since then, I have installed CyanogenMod, but don’t really use it much at all).
I did acquire a number of rather good Android outliners, but nothing so good that it made me miss the platform.
I have been experimenting with some of these combined task management-plus-email apps, but so far not found anything that really rings my bell (i.e. is superior to Apple Mail). Apple Mail, I hear you say - I thought you used Airmail, Bill? Well yes, I did, but Apple Mail on El Capitan is such an improvement over the old Apple Mail that I’ve started using it again. Very smooth, very fast, and appears to have stopped that irritating “lose the mail, find the mail, lose the mail again” behaviour it used to indulge in all the time.
Meanwhile, apart from Airmail, I have played with: Unibox, Inky, Mail Pilot, Postbox and Opera Mail. Of them all, my favourite is Opera Mail - alas, more or less discontinued as a separate app; I think it was last updated in 2013, although it still runs perfectly well. All the others were irritating in a myriad of little ways. Some of them are very ingenious (notably Unibox and Mail Pilot), but none of them are as fully featured as Airmail or Apple Mail. Thing is, even though the latter don’t have built-in task management, they make it incredibly easy to transfer emails to the main task management apps.
And of course one doesn’t tend to play around with email apps as much as outliners, because they’re one of the backbone elements of the workspace, involving a lot of setup time, a lot of data and a lot of inconvenience if you do decide to change over. But I remain interested in these things. I haven’t played with any iOS mail apps because Apple Mail on iOS runs extremely well, in my view, and I don’t want to waste space installing any more apps than I actually need, given I have a fairly sizeable music collection and quite a lot of office apps already on my various iDevices.
Just some thoughts to be going on with…
Cheers,
Bill
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 9, 2015 at 05:40 PM
Foolness wrote:
>I just want to raise that question here since apps like Lumen Trails,
>Boximize, Curator are being highlighted in the App store (and I am in
>love with the app “Life Strategy” in Google Play Store) but I cannot
>seem to spot any discussion of it here from an interface standpoint.
I had never heard of these apps. Admittedly, it’s been a long while since I actually went app-hunting in the Google Play, and now Microsoft, stores. At the time I hadn’t found any information manager which IMHO made good use of a powerful stylus functionality such as Galaxy Note’s—or even plain mutlitouch functionality for that matter.
Just to get an analogy of the powerful touch paradigm I would like to see, check out the videos found here http://www.bitwig.com/en/bitwig_1_3 Such tools are already changing the sound/music industry; I expect that eventually something equivalent will come out for the information management world—if it isn’t aready out there and I have simply missed it.
Anyway, you’ve got my attention, and I’ll certainly be checking out the tools recommended.