Jot! iPad App

I'm not a very visual person when it comes to software and I don't use a lot of diagrams, but occasionally I find them useful to visualize something complex.

I have a bunch of iPad drawing apps (which is a little odd because I don't draw). The one I like for doing quick diagrams is Jot! Whiteboard by Tabula Rasa. There are both paid and free versions. (I also use Google Docs drawing program for more "formal" diagrams.)

What I like best is that you can move/copy/delete things (or groups of things) after you've drawn them. That's hard or impossible with a lot of "paint" type programs.

You can also easily add text boxes, which is handy for the kind of diagrams I draw.

Here's a couple of examples (the meaning isn't important)

Creatorverse

I continue to be amazed by all the great phone and tablet apps. (Admittedly, amongst a lot of junk.) If only I had time to play with them all!

Linden Labs (makers of Second Life) has released an app called Creatorverse that looks like a drawing app, but is actually much more.

Textastic

I was looking for some way to have my Suneido source code on my iPad. More for viewing than to actually write code. I tried a few things, and settled on Textastic.

I was able to retrieve my cSuneido code from the SourceForge Subversion repository, but I didn't manage to get the jSuneido code from Mercurial. (It may just have been really slow. Or maybe it was trying to download the history?) So I just copied my source directory to Dropbox and pulled it from there.

I used it a few times while I was traveling recently and it worked well. For example, I'd get an email from my staff asking what a particular error message meant and I was able to find it in the source code and see where it came from.

Textastic is somewhat compatible with TextMate. I have a copy of TextMate on my Mac but I don't actually use it much since I tend to work in Eclipse.

From my limited use, I'd recommend it. It's not free, but for $10 you can't go too far wrong.