I'm breaking up with my apps

Okay, it's the final app round-up and I have given my soul to Satan, uh no, wait a minute...I mean to NoteSuite. That's it. I just got confused for a moment.

I've moved lock stock and barrel into this app. And speaking of moving, I feel like I moved four times in the last two months. I tried out four apps and gave each of them my all.  I moved everything, and I mean everything, into these apps to try them out.

I thought I'd found real happiness. But the sad truth is that I have a roving eye. I'd see a new app in an ad and before I knew it, I was trying it on mentally with my eyes. I'd find myself leering at screenshots in the App Store. I'd think "could that app be the one for me?" But I felt cheap; after all, I'd given my life to those other apps.

And seriously, my relationship with my old apps worked for a while. Like husbands, I thought each one was wonderful…at first. I was immersed in their charms and believed I was the luckiest guy in the world.

But then they showed  their darker sides. I'm no fool. I packed up my stuff and moved out immediately. And you know what? It was all worth it because I finally met my dream app.

NoteSuite, with you and Scrivener -- I shall go to the ball!

Still searching for the perfect writer's app

Just a note to say I'm looking at yet another note-taking and to-do app. It's called NoteSuite and I think this one may be the mother lode. (Link leads to a review of the app at MacWorld.)

It's not the simplest app to learn. In fact, there's a relatively steep learning curve. Mind you, it's not like learning a new desktop publishing program on your Mac -- but for an IOS app, it's fairly complicated.

I'm still not all-in with the app. I have more help files to read. When and if I master the thing, I'll write it up here. But seriously, this may be the big-time writer's app. I lets you record your notes, clip web pages, draw on the page and on photos and PDFs, and there's a very natural To-Do system that, with little effort on your part, serves up a daily list of stuff that Must Be Done. It kind of happens all on its own, from sticking due dates on your to-do's. I was amazed by the functionality of the system.

BTW, there's an iPad app (for a mere two bucks) and there's also a matching Mac app (for five bucks). The two talk to each other and keep in sync, using iCloud, which makes them wildly useful. And you don't have to rely on a developer's site (i.e., hope that it will continue to exist after you've input your precious data). This is all on the user's end. I like that a lot.

That's it for now. I'm really hopeful about this one.