Minimalist champions

Posted by MadaboutDana
Aug 5, 2013 at 10:00 AM

Those who enjoy minimalist apps and are seriously irritated by Catch’s cop-out might be amused by quip.com

It sells itself as a word processor for mobile apps, but actually it’s a collaboration-optimised notes tool - quite powerful, with an iOS app and an Android app in beta.

I’ve run across a couple of funny issues, but nothing serious. For collaboration purposes it’s actually very powerful; very nice markup, very easy to share.

The interface is very minimalist but quite clever, and makes full use of the attractive iOS slide-in/slide-out thing.

Another iOS app I’ve just discovered, by the nice German developer who created TiddlyNotes for iOS, is ‘As Noted’, which is currently free and extremely good (syncs with Dropbox, imports Evernote notes, imports TiddlyWiki files…). Also pleasantly minimalist, but with hidden power. Am still investigating, but will report back with findings.