Cloud Notes iPhone App for Rackspace Email
I’m a note fanatic. Any time I have an idea or need to jot down an address, parking spot number, or anything else, I go straight for my phone and start typing. Since I consider my notes to be very important, I’ve always wanted to build an Internet-backed notes app so I wouldn’t have to worry if I dropped my phone in the Bay or messed it up so badly that I needed to restore from scratch.
Luckily, Rackspace provides a Notes service with Rackspace Email! So, we got in touch and started working on what is now my primary notes app for the iPhone.
I submitted it to the App Store today, so hopefully you’ll get to enjoy it soon. It’s a basic notes app that stays in sync with your Rackspace Email notes, but stays out of the way so you don’t need to think about the details of it talking to the service. Using this app feels the same on a subway or airplane with no Internet access as it does sitting at your desk at home next to your wireless router.
Here’s some screen shots!
Sweet! Let us know when it’s ready, cant wait to try it out!
As a Rackspace Cloud customer, this seems like a great app/idea. However, to what extent is this integrated with the actual Rackspace Email system? That is, if one uses this, does a “Notes” folder get created within one’s IMAP folder structure, or are Notes only accessible via the Rackspace Email webmail system? Thanks.
Thanks Trav!
Joe, this is only integrated with the Notes feature in Rackspace webmail. So Exchange users will be out of luck (at least for now). The app is using a new REST API from Rackspace, so if other ways to access notes are added to it, the iPhone app will automatically pick up on that.
Mike - Thanks for the quick reply. I’m a Rackspace Email user but I rarely use the webmail app/interface. I generally just use Mail.app and the Mail app on my iPhone. (Supposedly, Mail.app and the Mail app on the iPhone support an IMAP-style Notes function in which notes are stored as de facto emails within a “Notes” folder, but I’ve never gotten it to work correctly.)
In any event, this looks like a cool app. I might give it a whirl as a possible replacement to the standard Notes app on my iPhone. Thanks again.
This looks really cool. Congrats! I’m assuming that if you skip the login the app “gracefully” turns into a plain old notes app? If so, that is awesome and great design.
Thanks Augie
And yes, if you skip login it’s a plain notes app. I didn’t want to lock anyone out from using it because I really like the simple style user interface for offline note taking.
Also, good news: it was just approved!
Do you foresee an Android version any time in the future?
It’s certainly possible, but at this point I don’t think I’ll be building an Android port. If more people want one, though, I’ll certainly be happy to do it. This was a really fun app to write.