iScrybe better iPhone, iHope.
Took a look at a pretty cool Web 2.0 App called iScrybe. In a word - NICE! You can check it out here. If you haven’t gotten around to organizing your life then - move on, nothing to see here - however, if you’re an overachiever-wanna-be then iScrybe is more than just a good idea.
There’s a lot of pretty cool things to like:
- Copy/Paste images, urls, text into the ThoughtPad and it will auto-format pretty cool note pages. Perfect for project planning, research, or travel.
- Offline/Online mode - All your information is synced, so if you’re in between hotspots, you still have access to all of your information.
- Typical apps create a new context (e.g. blank screen) when accessing a particular function, iScrybe focuses the view on the new function or activity without destroying the context. For example, you could view a full day of appointments while at the same time maintaining the full month calendar view on screen. Slick and very well done.
After checking out the Demo, I realized there were some “i”s missing. The “i” in “i”-words have several purposes. A reference to oneself or one’s context, yes, but also to “integration”. Apple has pretty much led the “i” integration revolution (iWeb, iLife, iTunes, iPod, etc). I don’t mind other “i”-words but lets keep the paradigm going shall we? Where’s the integration with PDAs, SmartPhones, and Communicators, and let’s be clear, by PDAs, SmartPhones, and Communicators - I mean the iPhone.
What good is having a near-perfect online/offline organizer if I cannot truly access it everywhere? Sure I can use iScrybe’s PaperSync to print foldable notes that I can carry around with me, but that’s like driving a Ferrari and parking it on the street.
Can I get it to Sync with my iPhone please? iScrybe is still in Beta (has been since October 2006), so perhaps there’s some additional development going on, iHope! If I were Steve Jobs, CEO Apple Inc. I’d buy iScrybe to replace .Mac iNow.
Then the $100.00 a year or so for .Mac would be well spent. Integrating iScrybe with .Mac would be hot. As in That’s HOT!”
You know they didn’t just add the “i” to Scrybe by happenstance? My guess is they are looking to get on Apple’s radar with a highly synergetic Web 2.0 App (Why do you thing iScrybe doesn’t have email or chat? Email and Chat/IM are a huge help to an organized your life.) This is something I’d love to see.
iNeed Leopard 10.5 OS X, an iScrybe powered .Mac, an iPhone and an upgraded Mac Mini by the end of June. So Steve, get right on that please, and give me an update in April.
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