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ShoveBox for Mac and iPhone


One thing we don't lack for on the fairer platform is snippet / notes managers. Nonetheless, I always find myself curious about the new applications, perhaps because nothing ever quite gets everything just right. ShoveBox is one of the newer entries in the snippet sweepstakes, and while it has been out on the Mac for a while they've just recently released an companion iPhone app (iTunes link).

ShoveBox's main advantage is its very simple interface. The little ShoveBox icon sits in your menubar waiting for you to drop something on it: URL, text, images, etc. Without any fuss the box opens and accepts your newest shove, ready to be accessed at some later time. My impression is that ShoveBox is best not so much for things you want to keep in the long run (though it will do that), but perhaps more as a scratchpad or an updated and more advanced URLwell.

The iPhone companion app does exactly what you'd expect, giving you access to your notes, etc. on the go. One particularly nifty function is a bookmarklet that allows you to import a website on both the desktop version (from Safari) or the iPhone version (from mobile Safari). So if you're reading something on the go, but want to make sure you save it for later as well, this looks like a great feature.

ShoveBox for Mac is $24.95 and a demo is available; the iPhone version is $3.99 from the iTunes App Store.

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Mike Palmer

@Plasmanut

Here's a link explaining how to install and sync the bookmarklet feature. It should be the first post at the top of the page.

http://www.wonderwarp.com/blog/

April 07 2009 at 4:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Sav

Shovebox is an outstanding piece of software. Why? It just works! I'm using it to sync notes between my mac and iphone. It updates over Wifi -- so there's no need to plug in your iPhone.

April 07 2009 at 2:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Plasmanut

I really like this app, but there are a couple of things annoying me at the time. First, I contacted tech support late last week and still haven't heard back.

I'm trying to figure out how or where to use the bookmarklet to facilitate URL entry into note. I can't figure out when they say it needs to be synced to the iPhone. Synced from where?

The other thing really bugging me is the inability to make a screen cap (or an an existing picture on your phone) a note in Shovebox. This would be a very quick way to save an address when lloking it up in Safari, as an example, and syncing it to your Mac. I hope this gets included in an update really soon.

April 07 2009 at 1:01 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Christina

Will microsoft works be able to open a pages doc? Just got a mac book after my windows laptop decided to crash the month of finals. I feel like im in a foreign country with this computer. haha.

April 06 2009 at 11:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Smarky

I really love this app, however I don't use it, Simply for the fact you have to click on the subject of the item and open it in a new window, you can't view it within side everything else in a separate plane like you can with all the other apps like this. This makes it slower and harder to view and sort through all the information stored in it.

Else i would use it. I need an app like this to store all my ideas and all my references to review at a later date, I have tried them all out there and stick with Soho notes, however I much prefer this app if it had said functionality, it doesn't need anything else, keep things simple!

April 06 2009 at 11:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Colin P

Been using ShoveBox a bit since getting it from MacHeist as loot. Overall it is a neat little application that serves as a nice "short-term memory". Tagging would a great addition as would integration with some other mac apps.

I agree that Instapaper and some other services do not make the iPhone app necessary, but it's nice to have an all-in-one option.

April 06 2009 at 10:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Unregistered

I already use FileMagnet and Instapaper so it's not worth spending $29 more for the shove desktop & phone editions.

April 06 2009 at 8:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
racco

Got this through MacHeist a few weeks back (the desktop app) and gave it a go

Problem: Any editable illustrator PDF i "shoved" into shovebox ended up with all its elements grouped together when it retrieved it. not good :n(

I actually loved the "shoving" of things to the menubar, very handy. But what it does to my PDFs just isn't acceptable. Waiting for an update to iron out a few bugs. its potentially a great app that I can see myself using a lot

April 06 2009 at 7:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Sam Odio

I find ShoveBox extraordinarily useful. Especially for finding apartments!

April 06 2009 at 7:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Daniel Brusilovsky

I've been using Shovebox for a while now, and now I can't live without it! It's one of the best Mac/iPhone companions ever!

April 06 2009 at 7:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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