A few weeks ago I reviewed Captio, which is a neat and simple application for iPhone to email yourself a note, or a picture, with one tap. How many times have you wished there was a way to easily save an idea for later? For many, quickly emailing yourself a note is the best way to save it.
For many others, though, getting additional stuff in the inbox can become a nightmare. Not only the inbox is already overloaded, but getting notes in there as well? No way. I’ve set up a nice filtering and tagging system in Gmail to handle Captio notes, but I understand some of you guys just don’t want notes to be turned into emails.
Meet JotAgent: a new app for iPhone and iPad which can be described as “Captio for Dropbox”.
The concept is simple: you link the app to your Dropbox account, you fire it up and start writing. With the tap of a button, the note gets quickly saved in Dropbox. That’s it. You can then browse all the notes you saved, or simply write a new one.
JotAgent is not a tool for professional writers: it’s a lightweight app to “jot” down an idea and have it stored on Dropbox, which runs on your iOS devices, the web and Mac. It’s a great way to save random ideas, thoughts and pieces of text in a service that works anywhere, on any device.
The current version of JotAgent supports Text Expander’s snippets but can’t upload images to Dropbox (Captio can send images from your camera roll to the inbox), hopefully that’ll come with a future update.
At $0.99 in the App Store, universal for iPhone and iPad, JotAgent is without a doubt the quickest and simplest way to save notes and ideas in Dropbox. It gets our huge seal of approval.
