We mentioned Stikkit, a new sort of online PIM with a twist, earlier this month, and one of my favorite bloggers on all things Mac and design, John Gruber, has gone and reviewed the crap out of it. It's a long read but worthwhile, especially if you're interested in the finer details the company focused on. John explores the format of the notes and the syntax with which they're created, pointing out the differences, for example, between bookmarks, notes and lists, and offering examples of how these notes are written.If you're the cliff-notes type, however, I'll just skip to the end: while John reveals some cleverness in Stikkit, he ultimately finds it to be "a very good implementation of a flawed premise." Strange UI features (such as AJAX Everywhere™ technology in favor of linkable pages and notes) and behavioral limitations (like not being able to add more than one bookmark to a note) deflate an otherwise interesting concept.
Personally, while it admittedly isn't a free solution, I still find a Backpack account combined with the excellent syncing/offline Packrat client (Mac OS X only) to still be the king of the hill. If you haven't signed up yet, check out John's revue for more than you need to know about Stikkit.
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11-19-2006 @ 12:46PM
ronald said...
very well
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11-19-2006 @ 8:29PM
Greg said...
I completely disagree with John's comments on the premise. The premise is so intuitive and simple, it's a wonder someone else didn't think of it before. I mean, hmmm, let's see, all I have to do is type and the system figures out what I want to do! Amazing that computing technology is actually being used intelligently instead of just recreating what I can do on paper, a al Backpack, etc......
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11-20-2006 @ 1:10PM
Asha said...
Thank you for pointing out John's amazing review. Not only were we flattered by the attention John paid to Stikkit, we appreciated his criticisms. This is just the sort of feedback we hope for as we progress though our beta period.
The update we had in the works (and just released) addresses most of the concerns John brought up:
http://www.valuesofn.com/blog/2006/11/you-can-take-it-with-you-to-30-boxes.html
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