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By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:49:27 +0000

I know, hard to believe. There are a couple that I'm wavering about, though. My usage of the many free ones I have tells me the utility I garner from an app is pretty low.

But again, apps for units of work and not all units are of equal priority. Scanning receipts to get reimbursed is a high priority. So usage could be lower and still make it worth the cost.

Developers should review Pinch Media's stats before pricing. I think a lot of first-timers get caught up in the cost of their labor, but the market is very fickle for paid apps.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:42:56 +0000

Hi Nick. Thanks for commenting. Even though I don't like to pay for apps, I blog about any that seem to be useful/interesting regardless of the cost, including I Am Rich, mainly because we have a guy named Rich on the team.

Good to hear about pdf creation. I'm going to promote JotNot internally too as a way to handle the new receipt submission guidelines.

And I might break down and buy it myself.

By: Joonas

Joonas — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:29:12 +0000

OT: I'm shocked that an iPhiliac such as yourself hasn't bought a single app, Jake! I have too often fallen for the “now only 99 cents” campaigns. And don't even get me started on Trism (used to be a Tetris-addict ages ago).

By: Nick Sillik

Nick Sillik — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:22:02 +0000

Hi! This is Nick Sillik from JotNot. Thanks for the great post about JotNot. I'm glad that you like the idea of JotNot, and I certainly hope you do end up paying for it!

On your Pain Point 2: We will be adding PDF creation to the iPhone app very soon. If you buy it now, you'll get that feature as an update as soon as we give it to Apple and Apple approves it. We hope to add that, and many more, feature in the future, and we'd love to hear more of your ideas on what would make this app more useful for you. We even put a survey on our blog at http://blog.jotnot.net/ where users can tell us what they'd like to see in future versions.

Thanks Again,
Nick Sillik
nsillik@jotnot.com

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:07:32 +0000

Good tip. I may start a tips group for this specific issue in Connect b/c the instructions provided were skewed toward people who a) work in an Oracle office that has a monolith all-in-one or b) have a scanner at home.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:05:22 +0000

Yup, I'm very familiar with that gem. I didn't mention it b/c all the Windoze users would get jealous.

By: John Bell

John Bell — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:03:22 +0000

On Pain Point 2, you can make a PDF easily of any document in OS X, including JPEGs.
1. Open the document (for JPEGs use Preview, GraphicConverter, iPhoto, or other app).
2. File > Print.
3. In the Print dialog choose PDF > Save as PDF.
4. In the Save dialog, enter a file name and click Save.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:44:19 +0000

Random thought on pain point 2: take a photo (instead of “scanning”) and print as a pdf file (I have PrimoPDF). Yep, Jotnot might work, but I'm not buying the iPhone anytime soon