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Are Android and Ipad Apps being overlooked (in the community) in terms of intuitiveness?
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Posted by Foolness
Oct 7, 2015 at 08:48 PM
It could be that touch interfaces are by themselves the wrong audience for this group…but then it begs the question, where can people talk about outliners that have touch interfaces to begin with?
I just want to raise that question here since apps like Lumen Trails, Boximize, Curator are being highlighted in the App store (and I am in love with the app “Life Strategy” in Google Play Store) but I cannot seem to spot any discussion of it here from an interface standpoint.
Even e-mail organization, I use an app called Triage where you swipe up and down and it either archives or deletes the mail and in terms of psychological apps there is a set of apps in the app store called CBT, SportsPsych and Worry Box made by one developer that bears mentioning but once again, it is too quiet.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Oct 8, 2015 at 12:09 AM
Well, I think most of us here are very happy to discuss any information management approach, and you’ll find plenty of discussion of touch-based outliners here, too (OmniOutliner, Cloud Outliner, MagicalPad et al.)
The ones you mention are certainly interesting. Boximize is more of a database app, I believe, and the same could be said of Lumen Trails, but both are fairly customisable. I suppose Curator is also a kind of database app (similar to others that have been discussed here like Together, Keep Everything and the other MacOS/iOS app whose name I always forget - all available as touch apps). But although the forum ostensibly focuses on outliners, database and other kinds of knowledge management apps have also been discussed at some length in various threads.
Life Strategy I don’t know, but then I (deliberately) moved away from Android some time ago (although the emergence of CyanogenMod as a serious, privacy-focused OS is very interesting). As for the others you mention - it’s true that we haven’t spent a lot of time discussing e-mail clients that are also task organisers. And that’s a rapidly growing field.
So it’s good you raised these issues! Why not kick off a discussion of your own (by analysing the interface approach of e.g. Triage or Worry Box)? Or tell us more about Life Strategy and why you like it? You’ll soon find that people join in.
A community is built by members’ contributions. And when members tell people about new apps that haven’t been discussed much (or indeed at all) yet, other members rush off and find out more about them. And as the discussions grow, the community grows. So don’t be shy - just tell us about the apps that interest you.
Posted by Foolness
Oct 9, 2015 at 01:06 AM
True…true…I will probably post a topic next week.
Sometimes (well often times) I find that I rarely get the patience to make my own topic only to see it get few replies and that, nowadays, I rather make sure that someone else is interested first. (even if this post only got 1 reply).
Posted by Franz Grieser
Oct 9, 2015 at 06:03 AM
Hi Foolness,
count me as #2 though I do not use Android :-)
But Triage sounds too good.
And I am pretty sure that there are many others interested in your experience with these apps.
Posted by jaslar
Oct 9, 2015 at 01:59 PM
I use an Android phone and tablet. I’ve paid for SimpleMind (mind mapper), Outliner Pro (whose interface seems to lose the big picture, although it syncs with Treepad on the desktop), Grapevine (a single pane outliner that is quite good). I also use Simplenote for casual writing and note taking. Android seems to work best, for me, with an extremely stripped down UI. And even on my tablet (Nexus 7) the screen doesn’t seem big enough for mind mapping.
So yes, I’m interested in your explorations.