Preview: Scrybe organizer pushes Web 2.0 limits
Mike Heck (InfoWorld) reviewed Scrybe. His conclusion:
Scrybe’s online organizer melds Web 2.0 innovations with new approaches to traditional functions, including printing. With a minimalist design and attention to detail characteristic of Apple products, Scrybe should find a home with business and professional users faced with planning complex schedules and capturing notes — especially anyone needing to work offline.
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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on January 26th, 2007 at 5:33 am
Good review. I have been using Scrybe since early November 2006. The video on YouTube impressed me. Adobe’s tools in a master craftsman’s hands can really create a wonderful application. Having struggled with Outlook all these years, I always look for its replacement. I had high hopes for Mozilla Sunbird/Lightning but they are not there yet so I moved onto using Google’s calendar a bit but I could not replace my corporate Outlook calendar. Scrybe, while still in beta, has quickly become my primary calendar and task management tool. In fact, I am even more organized now then when I started.
While still rough around the edges, this very useful product is led by a team that is focused on improving the product even while in beta. They have made several bug a feature enhancements based on user input. Many more are slated for future implementation.
The PaperSync, Scrybe’s print version, is brilliant. One feature I would like to see implemented is duplex printing. I currently manually do this to great effect and if they add it as a standard feature it will be more efficient. How good is the PaperSync? In my pocket during the work day are two pieces of paper. One sheet has a hourly calendar for 12 days and includes the top few tasks I have assigned for each day, on the back are my 75 tasks organized into 31 categories. The other sheet has my calendar snap shot with one month on each side. We all know PDAs can hold more data but there is something about having this data on paper that seems more effective.
I look forward to more good things from the Scrybe team.
- Dave
on February 2nd, 2007 at 7:06 am
I too use Scrybe, and keep the paper sync with me at all times. I have also tried other web based programs (Tracks, Remember The Milk, 30 Box, and Vitalist), but I keep coming back to the ease of Scrybe.
I hope future updates include a slighty less spartan view. Also I would like to be able to add many more color labels, and schedule recurring tasks.
Overall I think Scrybe is a great step forward in an intuative calendar todo application.