Scribe

I made a little app over Thanksgiving weekend, called Scribe. It helps me remember books people recommend, or topics that I want to research later. I found myself writing these things down almost daily in a Note, but the experience was terrible, so I made my own.

Scribe is built on top of the Dropbox Datastore API, so everything I write down is instantly backed up and safe. Scribe is also smart: it knows which things are books and which are not.

When I tap on a book, it loads straight to the Amazon page for that book (the background is a blurred view of the book cover). When I tap on anything else, it tries to find a Wikipedia article, and if it can't, loads a Google search.

There are a few more nice features as well. The keyboard is immediately up as soon as the app opens, and each cell has a seen state, letting me know which things I still need to look at.

I have lots of polish and bug fixes still to do, but after that I'm going to put the code up on Github, and possible the App Store. Stay tuned.

Thanks to Nathan Borror for the inspiration.