Aquaminds Notetaker

Posted by Lothar Scholz
Sep 15, 2019 at 03:47 PM

As a software developer i also can’t understand why people like mobiles so much (and work in different places). I have a hard time with my 17” macbook and going even less then that is unthinkable. I even have a hard time reading a PDF on a tablet. I use three 27” screens and that feels good. But maybe its because young people can’t afford good housing and therefore they are used to tight space and most have never any large set of data to deal with. Then of course you can do it on your iPad.

Here’s a photo from my summer time workplace.
https://imgur.com/a/dCzIHI4
https://imgur.com/a/aiZNfUp

From the technical point: The sad fact is you that still have to have either a very generic looking App or a very unique iPad App. The programming interface is still
so different for even some core technology like text handling. And Android is a different and i mean a really really different new beast, with much worse internals then Apple. Both systems are very good in making sure you are locked in to their operating system, even if this is a system from the same corporation.

>- I can collect on mobile devices - notes, clippings etc. But if I want
>to think, I want the space, multiple windows etc of a desktop (I also
>endorse @Beck’s point on conducive environment)

Exactly. You are not alone with this perception. And thats why my Business plan for Infosqueezer says Desktop first. And a lighter compagnion mobile app later. I think that Tinderbox and Curio both could do well too i they offer a restricted iOS viewer where you can fix typos and lookup/present stuff. But please, NOT MOBILE FIRST for my generation.