Collect your thoughts.
Vesper is a simple and elegant tool for collecting notes, ideas, things to do — anything you want to remember. Use tags to group related items into playlist-like collections. Vesper imposes no system; organize and curate your notes whatever way comes naturally to you. Eschewing complications, Vesper's focus is on how it feels to use it.
• Attach photos to notes.
• Use drag-and-drop to reorder items. Move important ones up, inessential ones down.
• When you’re done with an item, swipe it to send it into the archive. Out of sight, but remembered forever.
I don't care much for a diary or travel book, but I do use DayOne[1] (for OS X and iOS) as a journal of interesting stuff I find (mostly on HN). Years ago I used delicious to save/tag webpages, after its stagnation I used other services (I don't even remember their names), then started tagging stuff in Evernote, but none of them were as natural and easy-to-use as DayOne. It lacks a lot of features, but the Markdown format and its general ease of use makes up for that - I just press Control-Shift-D and start typing (or pasting a URL + it's HN discussion link for future reference). Occasionally I write down an interesting quote or image, or a passage I've read in an article. Also, the way it stores entries is using plist files, so I'm not afraid of platform lock-in. If I find something better (like this Vesper app here), I'll just write a convertor and translate those .plist files to the new format.
I haven't tried Vesper yet (probably will wait until there's an OS X client, which is where I use DayOne 99% of the time), but it looks very nice and promising.
[1]: http://dayoneapp.com
1. http://dayoneapp.com/support/passwords/
2. http://iphone.appstorm.net/reviews/lifestyle/day-one-a-gorge...
3. http://web.archive.org/web/20120902234719/http://dayoneapp.c...
The app looks really interesting, though, and I would probably have used it otherwise. Maybe now's a great time to address encryption with the focus on the Vesper app.
It's main selling point is that it encrypts all your data (notes, pictures) with SHA-256 before storing it on your device. Give it a try (Disclosure - i am the developer in the team that published this app)
Reviews/feedback always welcome...
An honest mistake on their part, but still very annoying.
Even if the other two decides to do it Gruber might threaten to jump off a bridge!
So maybe it's just another note app that won't work for those of us already using a different solution. But the UI/UX design is pretty cool and potentially noteworthy.
[1]: http://www.macstories.net/reviews/vesper-review-collect-your...
feature request: allow for a lock-code on this app please.