Dent This Carrot

I decided to start a series of posts talking about web sites and applications that I think are really cool…. but I don’t have a use for.

Post #1 – Scrybe

In this case, I should say, “don’t have a use for YET“. This app is still in Beta and has lots of potential!

Scrybe (or iScrybe, I can’t quite figure out which one is more appropriate) has very well done design of calendar and note taking functions. You are even able to work offline, a first for an online calendar as far as I’ve seen. As one might deduce from my blog, I’m a huge fan of 30Boxes, so it would take a lot to steer me away from my benchmark.

The Scrybe calendar has a great interface, making it easy to view day, week, month, or year on one screen. They also have lots of endorsements on their home page claiming how great the application is.

But (and you knew this was coming), here is where Scrybe falls down for me. No ical feed. I’m frequently mobile, which means I only have my trusty Crackberry in hand. Before I go anywhere, I sync my phone with my Mac iCal application which gets a feed from my online 30Boxes calendar. If things change during the day, I have both a mobile web app for 30Boxes or the ability to e-mail new appointments to my calendar.

The offline feature for Scrybe is cool and useful. I’d love to see 30Boxes take on this kind of function. Sometimes you have your laptop but no connection. With the offline option, no problem!

All in all…. cool, but just not quite there.