Preview: Scrybe organizer pushes Web 2.0 limits
Generating buzz about new software is relatively easy for established companies: Just look at the interest surrounding the public betas of Adobe Photoshop 3 and Microsoft Vista. But what if you're a startup with a Web 2.0 service -- and based solely on a YouTube demo, people were so enthralled they even offered payment for a login to the closed beta? I actually found that deal presented on Scrybe's forum, and n
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Generating buzz about new software is relatively easy for established companies: Just look at the interest surrounding the public betas of Adobe Photoshop 3 and Microsoft Vista. But what if you're a startup with a Web 2.0 service -- and based solely on a YouTube demo, people were so enthralled they even offered payment for a login to the closed beta? I actually found that deal presented on Scrybe's forum, and naturally had to find out why.
Put simply, Scrybe is a Flash 9-based, open-standards calendaring and personal organizer, and it's packed with every bit of eye candy and fluid interaction Flash developers can muster. For example, in the Planner view, calendars zoomed and contracted as I clicked from day to week to month. While Scrybe's interface is a model design, that's only a small reason for all the attention. The rest is because it delivers a user experience and features that are often beyond anything else I've ever used.
Consider just one aspect of the calendar, a function called GlobalTimez. When I opened the details of a meeting, Scrybe displayed four world clocks so I didn't have to calculate the time for participants in Europe and Asia. Further, the software will display a secondary time zone alongside your daily planner appointments.
This attention to detail extends throughout. Type "Dinner at 6 p.m." anywhere in your calendar day and Scrybe automatically places the appointment in the 6 p.m. slot. I added tasks in the same way to my to-do list (called PowerLists). Similarly, information in different contexts is effortlessly linked: Drag an item from a to-do list to the calendar and it becomes an event with all the associated reminders.
