If you’re getting bored waiting on Google Docs providing a doc editing capability on the iPhone, Mobile Web Docs is another good alternative text editing / notes creation application for the iPhone. With Mobile Web Docs you can create and edit documents on both a regular browser and your iPhone, and you can edit your docs in landscape view on the iPhone as well.
This app is pretty much no-frills in terms of the document editing side of things – no real formatting options or any bells and whistles – but it works fine for quick notes on the iPhone or your desktop browser of choice.
Hit the Read More link for some more details and lots more screencaps …
Mobile Web Docs looks pretty simple on the desktop browser, and keeps the same top-level buttons and layout as it has on the iPhone:
The Desktop is where you work with your created folders, and docs within them:
There are some ads on several of the Mobile Web Docs pages, but I really haven’t found them bothersome at all so far:
The Web Apps area is a place to add links to frequently used web apps, as offered by many iPhone start page sort of apps. One thing that I don’t like about Mobile Web Docs take on this, is that they prompt you to ‘Install Apps’ on this page. I think it’s always hard for new and even some experienced users to avoid getting confused with techie jargon – and this is a very misleading and wrong way to label things in my view. You’re not installing anything on your iPhone, you’re simply using links to other sites. It even goes as far as to give you an ‘app installed successfully’ message after you add a link. Very silly – this should be re-worked so that users don’t get an entirely wrong impression on this.
The Read Me doc gives a basic overview of how to get around and do things in Mobile Web Docs, which is really quite easy and intuitive.
The note creation / editing area is quite generous in both portrait and landscape views:
Mobile Web Docs seems another good option for quick, easy, and basic document editing on the fly on your iPhone, with a few more features up its sleeve than others such as PogoNotes. No frills on the text editing is fine, and the landscape editing feature is very nice, as many of us type considerably faster in that view. An export ability of some kind from the desktop browser would be nice – but for the short of quick notes this will probably be most used for, it’s not a real crucial feature.
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