What’s going on at Kabuki Vision

So, only three blog posts in, and I’ve already started lagging.  So I thought it was about time to post a little update about what’s been going on at Kabuki Vision.

NoteMaster

In December, we released NoteMaster 3.1, and even though it was just a “.1″ update, it had a lot of cool stuff in it.  The focus of the release was user interface improvements, so we took the opportunity to add some features that would make NoteMaster easier to use.  Here’s an overview of what it contained:

• Added a “new note” button to the category screen so you can quickly add a note from any screen (yay!).
• Added an option to allow NoteMaster to launch to the screen it was on when you exited the app (finally!)
• Added the ability to preview the first three lines of your note right from the note list (helpful!).
• Greatly improved the speed of the note search, especially for large note lists (speedy!).
• New easy setup for Google Docs syncing and SMTP e-mail (easy!)
• Lots of other small tweaks and improvements to make NoteMaster more usable.

We’re currently working on the next update.  While the feature list is not yet set in stone, I can give you a little hint…think “lists”.

iPad Fever

Yes, I admit that I was one of those people who spent most of the month of January in anticipation of Apple’s “tablet” announcement, which turned out to be the iPad.  While I know a lot of people were a bit disappointed about some elements of the iPad, I wasn’t one of those people.  I’m very excited about it, as both a customer and developer, and rest assured I’ll be at the Apple store on launch day.

I’ve received a number of emails asking if we’re going to make a version of NoteMaster for the iPad.  The easy part of the answer is “yes”…there will certainly be a iPad native NoteMaster.  We’re still in the planning stages, so its too early to reveal exactly what the iPad version of NoteMaster will turn out to be.  We could certainly just whip together something that’s “NoteMaster, only bigger”, but we’re trying to look at the bigger picture a bit.  We’re asking ourselves what does “note taking” mean on a device like the iPad?  After all, we’re talking about a device where a full-featured word processor (iWork Pages) will be available.  The type of “notes” you’ll want to take on the iPad may be very different from the ones you take on the iPhone.  So, yes, NoteMaster for iPad is coming, and we’ll disclose more info when we have it.

One more tidbit…the iPad has inspired us to start planning another app here at Kabuki Vision…more hints about that in future posts!