I'm not a professional artist. Therefore this is an 890 word review about a stylus. Does anyone come here for short reviews?
I like my Cosmonaut stylus. It is comfortable and provides just enough resistance against the iPad glass to feel like a real marker. But let's face it, it's big. It works well for big blocky letters, but not for details.
I purchased the Adonit Jot Flip stylus a few days ago and it is the iOS stylus to beat.
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.
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.
I like OmniOutliner for iPad1 quite a bit. It is a truly unique and powerful outlining tool. But I'm tired of waiting for better document management. Manually uploading and downloading documents to a webdav is no longer sufficient. Having a flat view to many dozens of documents is no longer tenable.2
CarbonFin Outliner CarbonFin Outliner is $5 for iPad and $3 for iPhone. If you have used CarbonFin Outliner in the past, then I may have little of value to offer you in this post.
Brett Terpstra has posted a number of very cool things that can be done with the OS X and iOS application DayOne. They were so compelling that I gave in and bought the suite. They are all solid and attractive applications but it doesn’t fit my workflow as well as plain text files.
Logging If I am actively working on a problem, I record notes in Simplenote (big surprise). On Windows, I either use ResophNotes or the Simplenote Web site.
I gave a brief thumbs up to ReadNow a few days ago but I always intended to give the application a deeper review after I had more time with it. I’m here to tell you that it has changed the way I use Instapaper.
Instapaper, Then I love me some Instapaper. Well, I love to put things into Instapaper. Instapaper has become the bottomless inbox that every procrastinator hopes for. It’s a place I put aspirations.
My previous look at a beer inventory system focused on Bento. In this overview, I’ll explain my experiences while using Apple’s Numbers for the same purpose.
Using the Mac Numbers already stands out as the best general spreadsheet application on any platform. But this is not a Numbers review. How does it work as an inventory application?
Not surprisingly, it works like a spreadsheet. That’s not necessarily bad. The Numbers interface is nice.
[1]Avatron lanA Tron, the makers of Air Sharing, have released a new iOS and Mac Matt app named Air Dictate.[2] The application “integrates” with Siri on the iPhone 4S to dictate into any text field on the Mac. The Mac he MTac must be running the free companion application but the dictation results are placed in the currently active text editor. There is a brief pause will Siri does her magic and performs the translation but the dictated text is popped right into a Mac application without any further user interaction.
