Post-It. Chances are that you’ve seen these small, yet ubiquitous, little life-savers somewhere – in an office; student’s brainstorming session; your kid’s door and so on. These sticky notes, which were once used indiscriminately in the recent past, have now found a way to ensure you still stay hooked with them. Given our modern age of tech gizmos where we use our cell phones or tabs almost every waking moment, it seems only fitting that Post-It makes it spot there too via it’s own personal app – the Post-It Plus.
3M, the parent organization of the Post-It brand, recently released this wondrous little app which has numerous little boons for just about any user who still sticks to jotting down small details on the go. Let us check out some of the cool features incorporated herein.
- Enables one to engender a digitized copy of your square Post-It in a seamless manner.
This is extremely beneficial for all you students and constantly-on-the-move office-goers who tend to work away from their desk a lot, as you can now keep track of and edit/update your little multi-hued reminders from just about anywhere. - Less is More
This mantra seems to be at the heart of the app. With a single ‘capture’, one can digitize multiple Post-Its together. - Share It!
One of the most essential aspects of ideas, in today’s inclusive world, is that we need to SHARE it amongst our co-conspirators / colleagues (co-conspirators sounds cooler I’d say). This was a major downfall in the physical/analog cousin of this app. Anybody, other than the holder of the Post-It, would have to make their own version of the same in order to peruse for themselves.
One of the coolest feature of this app is that you can share your Post-It and its contents with others via a host of popular apps and formats like PowerPoint, DropBox, Evernote, PDF and many others!
- Organize It!
Given that only you would probably know the intricate links between any and every Post-It you use, it makes sense that the app enables a User to organize the numerous Post-Its in a more coherent and comprehensive manner – thereby making it easier for others in the same group to peruse too.
- The app is available for free (one of the advantages over it’s physical counterpart)
By digitizing this nifty product, 3M has ensured a way of finding it stays relevant everywhere – and not just in the boardroom!
However, there are a few things that one do well to know before giving the app a try.
Some of these are –
- The app is ONLY available for iOS 8 currently.
While I’m sure half of you in the room just uttered a groan on hearing that, take solace from the fact that even certain iOS devices (running iOS 7 and earlier) won’t be able to. Let’s just hope that 3M has plans to release the same for other popular OS too. Moreover, there is NO desktop app either.
- ‘Capture‘ & ‘Board‘
In the words of the guys over at Post-It,
“Capture is what we call the process of photographing multiple Post-it® Notes — then identifying each individual note so it can be recreated digitally” and “Board is the display area for captured Post-it® Notes. Multiple captures can be included in the same board.”
- Only 50 Post-Its can be captured at once. Further, only square 3″ x 3″ Post-Its will be captured comprehensibly. This can be quite deleterious to sales of others and even to the usability of the app.
- The app does not involve Optical Character Recognition or any corresponding intelligent search capabilities. However, on exporting a Post-It to Evernote, one can also implement such powerful technologies on the Post-It content.
- Post-It, the brand, recommend that capture highly contrasting Post-Its. The best way to do this is to use a dark marker on a light colored Post-It.
Having said all this, I believe the below picture recapitulates almost everything spoken above.
So, what are you waiting for ?? I’d be scrambling for my iOS device to download this uber-productive app, if I were you, right about now!
