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The rise of Readability
Slowly but surely Readability is increasing the pace of it’s assault on Instapapr and Read It Later.
All great apps in their own way but Readability clearly has it’s sights on taking over the ‘read it later’ market. Little by little they are integrating everywhere: browser extensions, third-party apps like Reeder, Tweetbot, Twitterific, Longform, Pulse (Flipboard is surely in the works) and soon their own iOS apps.
Speaking of which, their iOS apps have been in the app store approval system for a long time now and one can’t help wondering what’s so unusual about them that it’s taking this long to get approved. We shall see…
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Google’s GDrive
I’ve been cooling on Google lately and really only use three of their products: Search, Gmail and Photos. With the potential advent of GDrive I may switch away from Dropbox if a decent iPhone client appears (knowing Google, it won’t). I’ve got 80GB sitting on Google waiting to be used so if they do GDrive right, I’m all in.
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Task managing
It shouldn’t be a task having to manage your tasks but unfortunately that’s what most task/ to-do apps seem to be geared up for. They should, however, be designed to help you manage your life not your tasks. Some of these apps are so complicated I found myself creating a task to learn how to use the bloody thing.
That’s why I’m looking forward to Clear. The tasks are the interface so there’s nothing else to get in the way. I have not tested it so cannot judge but it looks like just what I’m looking for. The only downside being that there is no accompanying web interface but along with Path, Flipboard and Instagram the shift towards an app centric world seems inevitable.
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Chrome for iOS? Don’t hold your breath…
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TeuxDeux is IT - the dog’s bollocks of To Do apps.
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To-Do’s. Social? My arse.
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TeuxDeux - the winner
Shame on me for forgetting all about TeuxDeux. Used it yonks ago then got sidetracked by all the new shiny To-Do apps out there. Right now it’s still the simplest and the best for me.
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TeuxDeux
Let’s not forget the unsung hero of to-do apps - TeuxDeux Very quick, very simple and has great web/ iPhone app syncing.
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The battle of the To-do’s
OK, I’ve got Wunderlist, Wunderkit, Orchestra and Do all battling it out as my default To-Do app. I’m still waiting on Clear which might do the job but might not given that it doesn’t have a web interface.
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re. Wunderkit - pretty sure I should be using the UI not fighting with it.
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Re. Wunderkit - there’s organising and there’s lashing something down so it cant move.
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Wunderkit walks the fine line between sophistication and complication. There are times in the interface when I don’t know where I am or what is going on. The test will be whether this wears off or if the undoubted power and sophistication out weighs the disorientation.
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Wunderkit and Clear - two extremes of basically similar products. Toys or tools?
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The Wunderkit beta goes public – Welcome one and all!
It’s finally here plus an iPhone app which I’ll be testing today.
