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Daily iPhone App: Corkulous brings the beloved cork board to your iOS device
There's something charming about a cork board with its simple pushpins and scraps of paper. If you don't want to mark up your wall with an unsightly brown slab of cork, then you should check out this digital alternative from Appigo. Available for the iPhone and the iPad, Corkulous Pro is filled with features that'll let you create customizable cork boards and share them with family, friends and co-workers. Corkulous Pro does a great job mimicking the simplicity of a cork board-based organization system. The app is powerful enough that you can use it to store different types of notes, but simple enough that you don't need a degree in engineering to understand how it works. Once you figure out the icons on the tray that you use to create a note (they are not labeled), then they rest of the UI is easy to navigate. Corkulous Pro launches to a main screen that shows you all your cork boards and their collections of notes. The app lets you add a variety of notes including images, contacts, sticky notes, checklists and even mini-cork boards. Once you add a note and fill it in, you can drag and drop it anywhere on the board. For those who are spatially challenged, the app also has handy guides that'll line up your notes in rows or columns. You can store cork boards locally on your device, or put them in a collection that you can share via Dropbox or iCloud. You can also store private cork boards locally on your iPhone. If you don't want to use an online service to share a cork board, you can export your board as a PDF or an image and then access the documents via iTunes. You can also send the exported document via email. Its easy note creation and sharing options make Corkulous Pro an excellent alternative to the traditional cork board. Corkulous Pro is a universal app available in the iTunes App Store for US$4.99. There's also a free version if you want to try it before you buy it.
Appigo launches Todo Pro, a task list synchronization and collaboration service
Appigo overhauled its Todo Online sync service and replaced it with a task synchronization and collaboration solution. The new Todo Pro service lets you seamlessly sync your tasks across your Mac and iOS devices. Todo Pro is an improvement over Appigo's former online sync service and is much faster at syncing your tasks across devices. Besides syncing, Todo Pro also lets you share your task lists with co-workers, family or friends. When a list is shared with others, these people can view the tasks, make comments and leave notes for other members to see. It's a great solution for a small workforce or a family that wants to share shopping lists, packing lists and more. The service is powered by a web app that is accessible from any desktop browser. There are companion iPhone, iPad and Mac apps so you can access your task lists on almost any device. Todo Pro integrates with Siri so you can use the voice assistant to add a reminder. It also supports advanced features like subtasks, repeating tasks, GTD and full task searching. The Mac and iOS App are available for free from the Mac App Store and the iTunes App Store. You can try out the new Todo Pro for free by signing up for a basic account. A premium account, which lets you connect the mobile, desktop and web apps, costs US$1.99 per month or $20 per year. The premium account also includes Siri integration, email notifications and an unlimited number of shared lists.
TUAW and MacTech interview: Appigo
Appigo makes powerful but easy-to-use productivity software. Neil Ticktin (Editor-in-Chief, MacTech Magazine) interviews Calvin Gaisford of Appigo at WWDC 2012. Calvin was kind enough to tell us about their thoughts on the announcements on WWDC, and how it will affect their plans moving forward.
WWDC Interview: Appigo
Neil Ticktin (Editor-in-Chief, MacTech Magazine and MacNews) interviews Calvin Gaisford of Appigo at WWDC 2011. Calvin was kind enough to tell us about their thoughts on the announcements on WWDC, and how it will affect their plans moving forward. Appigo makes the excellent Todo series of productivity apps for iPhone, iPad and now Mac. TUAW and MacTech Magazine teamed up to speak to developers at WWDC 2011 about the keynote announcements and how Apple's new technologies will help them and their customers. We'll bring you those videos here, MacTech.com and MacNews.com. Also, check out the free trial subscription offer for MacTech Magazine here.
WWDC App demos: Corkulous and Todo
Corkulous is an iPad app that attempts to simulate a real cork board (similar to Kai Cherry's KorQBord, which we've mentioned before). You can add notes, labels and photos, and you can add boards inside of boards, which gives you almost infinitely nestable surface areas to play in. Of all the bulletin board apps I've seen out there, Corkulous likely wins for the ease-of-use and power tools. It's a healthy mix on both sides that'll get you using it quickly, but gives just enough tools to get the job done. One thing they are working on is my #1 complaint: zooming. Being able to zoom out and see things in a mind map-style format would be very useful. Check the video above for a walkthrough of this app. I was a big fan of the Todo app on my iPhone, as it was surprisingly versatile for a "simple" to-do app. Unfortunately, I didn't much like the Appigo Mac application used to sync because it was tied to one machine and didn't loop into any other services I used. I went to Things for a while, but when the iPad version of Todo emerged, I took another look. In fact, I dusted off my old Toodledo account and jumped right back into what is now a very elegant end-to-end solution. Check out the video on the next page for a brief look at Todo. Note that Todo does a lot of great things, and we'll do a deeper dive into functionality later in the summer.
