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Extensive Stikkit review by John Gruber
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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