Seems quite nice in concept. I use Evernote for that function right now and it works but obviously is not optimized for this sort of thing. My notes tend to turn into a bit of a mess as you can imagine when I'm in the middle of a project or repair and haphazardly appending stuff to the bottom of what amounts to a long page of everything I've ever done to that particular vehicle. Taking notes on mechanical things in general (cars, boats, motorcycles, appliances, new projects even while in the concept stages) has really helped me though. When I'm in the moment and thinking through the problem/solution my mind is 100% convinced that I will never forget any detail of what I am doing. In reality, after a few months of working on a few of my other toys I invariably lose some of the detail. If I don't have notes and I need to reference something from that earlier project I have to recreate my mental state and go through the process again to try to remember those details ("I know I've been through this thoughtfully but why did I do it this way again?").
The functionality I see in the video demo looks great but of course the devil is in the details of the actual daily use of the app (stability, intuitiveness, functionality, etc) which is hard to get a feel for without using it for a while. I use an app called Shoeboxed for all my rental property expenses and I have a love/hate relationship with it. The feature list for it is just about perfect but in actual use I get so much bizarre behavior with the app and the web back end and so many great pieces of functionality are just poorly implemented that I'm always looking for an alternative product.
Your app could be nice for just about any guy that's into toys if it works as advertised and is stable. I could see it being useful for some of my friends who have large firearm collections. If the functionality isn't already there it seems that some sort of export (maybe to PDF?) functionality might be in order. I know it might be hard to flatten all of this sort of data into a flat, portable document but with so many mobile app projects being abandoned I'd personally be more comfortable investing/trusting all of my notes to it if they could be pulled out at any time. Plus I'd need a printout backup so I could reference the notes on my vehicles in a post apocalyptic world.
Last edited by Jeff; 09-06-2014 at 4:03 AM.
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