Smoke me a kipper

Discovered Kip the over day. At first I was overjoyed because I thought I had found an application I’ve been waiting for for a long time, turns out its not quite my dream app yet.

You see, we have iPhoto for looking after our photo’s and displaying them in a way that suites photo’s, we have iTunes looking after our media files and displaying them in a way that suites media files. So what became immediately obvious to me is that we should have other cataloguing applications for other kinds of files. In particular, an app for cataloguing document files… and displaying them in such a way that suites document files, and maybe even spreadsheets. I think it would be ideal for apple to do this, after all, they seem to be struggling to move finder onto the next level, if you had specialist apps instead you would only need finder for odd bit of archiving and such like.

So yeah, my first thoughts were that Kip is THAT app, but it turns out it only supports PDF’s, and is especially geared towards scanning stuff in to be turned into a PDF, and then catalogued. You can drag existing PDF’s in, or create new ones by simply dragging images into a drop box. It’s still early days, this is a free preview edition, it will be commercial pay-for software eventually so maybe it will support other files by then. The way you tag the documents is highly effective, you can click on a tag and it will show just those documents, but also hide the tags that are no longer relevant, and you can keep drilling down by selecting more tags until there’s just the couple documents left. Also, when you hover the mouse over a thumbnail it shows a zoomed in portion in a floating break-out box, a little in the style of that trick aperture does, you know the one…

Oh and, it crashed on me today so…