About

I suffer from information overload.    Between work projects, home projects, investments to manage, new technologies to master, communications, tracking and paperwork I found the old tools for managing time inadequate.

I started Notesanywhere after a long search for a lightweight program that could meet my daily task tracking needs. Despite all the advances in software engineering and web design, I found the basic Notes/PIM programs are surprisingly unusable. I’ve tried them all. PDAs, Microsoft Notes, Outlook, Google Notes, Excel, and dozens of shareware programs but at the end of the day I still find myself reaching for a piece of scrap paper. Think I’m being lazy - watch non-technical people , they wont even touch those programs unless its job related.

My design manifesto:

• My toughest competitor isn’t Google or Microsoft, its scrap paper. Don’t laugh, scrap paper is hard to beat because its very easy to use.
• In real life, people have multiple computers in their lives. At work, at home, on the road. My notes program should support syncing effortlessly between any computers and support offline usage as well.
• It should be attractive and cool. It is 2007 web 2.0 and software is a mature industry. Forms are ugly and depressing. Cool a prerequisite not a bonus.

So try out the program. I’d love to hear constructive feedback.
Robert Ko