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Re:Jjot - take notes online, fast. by ph0rque on Sunday July 29, 2007 @10:37PM (#37550)
Nice app, but I already use something similar: stickit.com. How is this different from stikkit?
Re:Jjot - take notes online, fast. by philc on Sunday July 29, 2007 @11:07PM (#37555)
stikkit is cool, but doesn't quite hit the nail we're aiming for. It turns out to be another wiki product, similar to BaseCamp, while Jjot is a light-weight WYSIWYG notes application. Try playing with Jjot for a few minutes to see what I mean. An example:

To edit one of my notes on Stikkit, I have to

- scan through the titles of my notes

- guess which one contains the info I need, click it, (hit back and click again if I'm wrong)

- find a small "edit" button somewhere on the page

- wait for the page to reload

- enter some text using some markup language

- hit save

With Jjot:

- scan the contents of my notes (they're all on the same page, fully editable)

- Edit the one I'm looking for, using a visual editor

That's it. No save buttons to worry about, no markup language (Jjot uses a rich text editor), and everything is on the same page. It really is sticky notes on the web.

I think Stikkit is a promising product, but I wouldn't say it meets the same needs as Jjot. If I wanted something heavier than Jjot, I might consider Stikkit, BaseCamp, or maybe an online word processor like writewith.

I also find it mildly annoying that they label my contacts "peeps," but to each his own.

Re:Jjot - take notes online, fast. by ph0rque on Monday July 30, 2007 @08:59AM (#37633)
Thanks for the reply. I definitely like the easier to use aspect of jjot, but to make it really convenient (and win me over), it would be nice to have a dashboard widget for OSX that would let me see my notes in the dashboard, but save them on the web to be able to edit/access them at e.g. work.