A simple canvas that keeps your notes up to date, on the phone or on your mac. NotepadSync is a promising sounding new notes syncing program – between Mac and iPhone – due to be coming to the App Store by August.  It promises to offer several quite nice ease-of-use sort of features, like … […]
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Apps Coming Soon: NotepadSync

Jun 28th 2008 by

NotepadSync

A simple canvas that keeps your notes up to date, on the phone or on your mac.

NotepadSync is a promising sounding new notes syncing program – between Mac and iPhone – due to be coming to the App Store by August.  It promises to offer several quite nice ease-of-use sort of features, like …

  • Create notes on your iPhone, with the ability to write text anywhere on the screen…
  • Notes are stored securely in the cloud, and are updated when changes occur.
  • A simple canvas that keeps your notes up to date, on the phone or on your mac.

I especially like the sound of being able to write anywhere on the screen.  NotepadSync is actually two applications – one for the iPhone, and one for the Mac.  You can view, create, and edit notes on both of course – and the feature sets on both are said to be nearly identical – which would be another big plus in terms of ease of use.

In the desktop and iPhone apps you can:

  • Create, edit, delete pages of notes
  • Quickly find a page by using the filter text box
  • Write your text notes anywhere on the screen, giving you more freedom as you write
  • Ability to drag individual text boxes around the page, to more easily organize your thoughts
  • Quickly load and exit the app, since your notes are stored in a local database, as well as in the cloud
  • Stay in sync, the phone will synchronize over WiFi or the cell connection, and the osx version will use whatever network is available.  If no network is available at the time, the app will happily save to the local database and send updates the next time a network is available.

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One of the other things I like about the descriptions of NotepadSync is that the purpose and scope of the app are being kept quite simple:

The goal of NotepadSync is to be a simple to use, lightweight notepad.  It is not a goal to be a task manager, contact store, or calendar.  It is designed to act as a flexible, paper like notepad which can reliably keep your data close to you.

The pricing for NotepadSync is not finalized as yet – but it will include some sort of subscription model, as the app uses central storage for notes:

Since NotepadSync uses a central storage for your notes, it will be made available on a subscription basis.  The current plan is to offer the app, with 1 year of service for $14.99.  This may change a little bit depending on the specifics of offering a service+app style product on the AppStore.

I did not see any information on any security standards to be used with notes storage, but I would guess this application is not aimed at housing highly sensitive data.

I look forward to seeing and reviewing NotedpadSync in the near future – it should be available in the App Store by August.

You can check out more info, and sign up for updates on the app, at:

http://www.notepadsync.com/notepadsync/intro.html

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