I’ve been working on this for a little over two months now - ever since the iPad was announced, and I realized that the little idea I’d been playing with might actually have an audience. It’s a note-taking app, essentially: something that tries to bridge the gap between the cold precision of word processing and the organic grace of handwritten notebooks. I’m hardly the only person developing something like this, but I think my effort is distinguished from the crowd for two reasons: It’s a pure HTML5 webapp, using all sorts of nifty tricks: the <canvas> tag for image editing, local databases for file storage, and a manifest file for offline support. It is, in my humble opinion, well-designed. I’ve tried to keep the interface as clean, intuitive, and minimal as possible, so that the program stays out of your way while you do your work. There are other cool features that I’m still fixing up, including online syncing and realtime collaboration, which probably won’t be ready in time for the iPad launch on Saturday. Still, I’m pretty happy with what I’ve been able to accomplish as just one man, and I think this illustrates quite well the potential of pure web apps to compete alongside native programs.
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I’ve been working on this for a little over two months now - ever since the iPad was announced, and I realized that the little idea I’d been playing with might actually have an audience.

It’s a note-taking app, essentially: something that tries to bridge the gap between the cold precision of word processing and the organic grace of handwritten notebooks. I’m hardly the only person developing something like this, but I think my effort is distinguished from the crowd for two reasons:

  1. It’s a pure HTML5 webapp, using all sorts of nifty tricks: the <canvas> tag for image editing, local databases for file storage, and a manifest file for offline support.
  2. It is, in my humble opinion, well-designed. I’ve tried to keep the interface as clean, intuitive, and minimal as possible, so that the program stays out of your way while you do your work.

There are other cool features that I’m still fixing up, including online syncing and realtime collaboration, which probably won’t be ready in time for the iPad launch on Saturday. Still, I’m pretty happy with what I’ve been able to accomplish as just one man, and I think this illustrates quite well the potential of pure web apps to compete alongside native programs.