The Omni Group has announced that OmniPlan for iPad is coming this Thursday, June 7th. I thought I would be more excited about this. I'm struggling with OmniPlan on the Mac because it doesn't integrate with OmniFocus and it only works well with one project at a time. It's probably just me. I'll still buy it and it will still be better than MS Project on my Windows machine.
This is part five in this series and likely the last. The previous parts can be found here:
Part 1: The Browser Part 2: Reference Material Part 3a: Sketching Apps Part 3b: Sketching Workflow Part 4: Plain Text This installment is broken into a few parts. No one in their right mind would read this entire article so I am including an index. The first is concerned with why I prefer working with PDF’s over eBooks.
The beauty of attracting smart people to the comments section of Macdrifter.com is that they write smart things. "Mo65" mentioned ZoomNotes in the comments to my Real World Note Taking post. I've been fascinated with it ever since.
ZoomNotes is a sketching app. Its unique feature is a virtually unlimited level of zoom, but with a couple twists. Rather than drawing with a super-magnified line when zoomed in, the line autoscales with the zoom level.
I write many posts to Macdrifter from my iPad and occasionally my iPhone. One place where both of these tools fall down, is inserting images into a post. On my Mac, I have so much automation running that I just select the image file and hit a key combo to resize the image1, upload the file to my server and grab a url to the image.
To fill the gap, I've tried some crazy stuff.
A quick look at using Scrivener on a Mac and Simplenote on an iPad (by a real writer).
The original authoritative review by Serenity Caldwell at Macworld. Serenity also provides a followup resource at Macworld with a complete buying guide.
The Verge gives the same overview in case someone doesn't read Macworld.
I'm sure Serenity will get her hands on the Adonit pressure sensitive stylus soon to provide a full review.
I use the Cosmonaut stylus but the Adonit looks superior for drawing fine details.
I was as excited as Eddie about this update to Scanner Pro for iOS. It's now universal. If you're still using a photocopier to digitize short documents, you are doing it wrong. Scanner Pro is very good.
If the Courier project is remembered for anything, it will be for being the only non-existent Microsoft product to generate so much media attention for Apple. In one week, the notebook app backed by a Courier project lead and a sketching app developed by former Courier engineers were both released to much hype and media attention. I reviewed the Taposé notebook app, so it seemed appropriate to review Paper.
Short Story Paper by FiftyThree is a good sketching app.
This post is only going to be interesting to someone that lives in plain text. More specifically, someone that creates and maintains a large number of plain text files.
I killed Simplenote awhile ago. They're working on a fix for the problem, but in the meantime I had the "opportunity" to look for Dropbox-centric options. There were few apps that could handle a large collection of notes.
Requirements I have some minimum requirements for an iOS text editor.
Taposé was inspired by the fabled Microsoft Courier project. As a reminder, Courier was the phony Microsoft tablet concept that never was. I’ve read many rumors about what happened but the press ate up the vapor-ware because it was a novel concept from Microsoft. In my opinion, all of the excitement was over a cartoon of a concept.
Taposé is the Courier concept except on a shipping device. It’s an iPad app and it was a prominent Kickstarter project.
