October 25th, 2012

Record Your Brilliant Ideas In Style For Either Public Or Private Consumption With Squarespace Note

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Squarespace introduced a new mobile app for iPhone today, but it has little to do with the company’s website creation platform. Instead, it’s a simplified note-taking application that can publish to your Squarespace account, but doesn’t have to, since it also offers cross-syncing to Dropbox, Twitter, Evernote and Facebook. → Read More

June 11th, 2012

Fetchnotes Readies Twitter-Like Sharing For Its Note-Taking App (& They’re Fundraising By Singing Karaoke)

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Fetchnotes, the lightweight note-taking app launched this April, is adding a new feature today that will allow users to share tasks with each other using a Twitter-like syntax. The best way to describe how this works is to give an example. Co-founder Alex Schiff offers this: if he enters something like “#read Do More Faster @chase,” the note is added to both his and Chase’s hashtagged #read → Read More

April 12th, 2012

Fetchnotes Launches A Simple, Cloud-Based Note-Taking Service (That Twitter Users Will Love)

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Fetchnotes is a promising, lightweight note-taking app for list makers and idea-havers which looks deceptively simple. But that simplicity is actually one of Fetchnotes’ key selling points. It’s meant to be fast and easy to use. And although there are a ton of apps for taking notes, from robust offerings like Evernote to more limited mobile apps like the Notes app that ships on the iPhone… → Read More

April 11th, 2012

Attn. Evernote & Pinterest: Springpad’s New Social Experience Turns Interests Into Action

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Springpad was founded back in 2008 with a simple mission: Help people “remember stuff today so that they can make better decisions tomorrow.” For those unfamiliar with the digital organizer, the startup is the maker of free web, Android, and iOS productivity apps that constitute a multi-platform, cloud-based digital notebook, designed to help you discover, save, and share the things you care… → Read More

October 11th, 2008

CrunchDeals: IOGEAR Mobile Digital Scribe for $60

Normally about $80 to $100, Office Max has the IOGEAR Mobile Digital Scribe for $60 until October 18th. The device captures your writing from just about any normal paper surface (up to Letter or A4 size) and then digitizes it to be archived on your computer. You can also hook the Mobile Digital Scribe directly up to your computer and record your handwriting in real time. Seems like a great gadget… → Read More

October 26th, 2007

Sad clown: No cross Mail.app/iPhone transmission

So maybe everything isn’t totally rosy in Leopard world. Apple promised we’d be able to sync notes from our iPhones to Mail.app but it turns out this is impossible. The new Mail.app has a sort of “Note to self” feature which is actually an email generated to look and act like a little note. The notes appear in your mailbox as a mail message, provided you’re not using… → Read More

June 25th, 2007

Good Mobile Messaging 5: Business Users' Best Friend (As Far As E-mail Goes)

Motorola purchased the Good Technology Group last January and now has Good Mobile Messaging 5 to show for it. It’s a software package for smartphones that attempts to mobilize Microsoft Outlook or Lotus Notes. Professionals, so I’m told, actually use e-mail for work and not just sending funny links to your entire address book, so having it all nice and organized is key. Time is money… → Read More