Posts tagged ‘simplenote’
iPhone notes app comparison
February 21st, 2011 at 8:58 am by Dr. Drang
I have four note taking apps for the iPhone: Simplenote, Elements, PlainText, and Nebulous Notes. I’ve written about each of them before,1 but I thought it might be useful to compare them all in a single post. Update 3/15/11 I just wrote a similar post looking at the features of Notesy, which has taken over…
Elements v. Simplenote, Round 2
August 31st, 2010 at 10:48 pm by Dr. Drang
Last night, I was going to write a post comparing Simplenote to Elements. I’d already written a brief comparison of the two, but that was before the release of Simplenote 3. It seemed only fair to take into account the improvements in it. But instead of writing the post, I got hooked on watching YouTube…
Elements, Simplenote, and iPhone fonts
August 17th, 2010 at 11:18 pm by Dr. Drang
You’ve no doubt heard about Elements by now. It’s the latest iPhone plain text note-taking app. I learned about it this morning from Jesse Grosjean’s tweet. The main features of Elements are: Syncing with your computer(s) via Dropbox. TextExpander support. Character/word/line counts. Choice of font, font size, colors in the display. A “scratchpad” for easy…
New Metra schedule for Simplenote
July 13th, 2010 at 10:29 pm by Dr. Drang
As I mentioned last November, I have plain text versions of the Metra commuter rail schedule between Chicago and Naperville (where I live) saved in Simplenote. Metra made some changes to the schedule this week, so I updated and decided to make the files available in a GitHub repository. On the iPhone, the schedules look…
Lipoproteins and Simplenote
June 6th, 2010 at 7:22 am by Dr. Drang
Has this ever happened to you? You’re at a party and head into the kitchen for a snack. The room is filled with hot babes who surround you and…ask you about your cholesterol numbers. If it hasn’t, that’s probably because you haven’t reached middle age. Cholesterol is slowly turning into a standard topic of conversation…
Exploring the Simplenote API
January 20th, 2010 at 4:25 pm by Dr. Drang
I’ve been meaning to work with the Simplenote API ever since it was announced, thinking it would be a good way to keep my plain-text todo lists1 synced between my computers and my iPhone. I haven’t done any syncing yet, but I have written a utility script that will get me started. There are, as…
Simple thanks
January 12th, 2010 at 11:56 am by Dr. Drang
Like many people, I first learned of Simplenote through John Gruber’s Daring Fireball post from last summer. I bought the app and liked it from the beginning, even though it had some user interface problems. Using Simplenote paid off yesterday, when I became one of the WhySimplenote contest winners. (Twitter links to these two posts…
Simplenote, TextExpander, and the scale
January 4th, 2010 at 12:22 am by Dr. Drang
Losing weight was not going to be one of my New Year’s resolutions. I just wanted to keep myself from gaining weight over the winter when I can’t ride my bike to and from work. But when I got on the scale a few weeks ago and found myself grazing the 200-pound mark, I knew…
