I hope updates continue
I LOVE this app, so simple so effective. Praying developer continues updating so we can use for many years to come
The Future of Note Taking
This feels like it should have been designed by Apple. No mimicking folders or booklets or sticky notes, just a clean and simple design with limitless nested notes. So simple, so easy to use and so logical, it just lets you create notes.
Keyboard issues
When I’m typing the app doesn’t allow me to see the space I’m typing in, the keyboard blocks it. I don’t understand why
A joy to work with
Scroll’s a simple, straightforward & ultra-helpful tool for keeping notes & listing & developing ideas.
If you upgrade (at £4-99 for iPhone, Mac & iPad, it surely has to be one of the best value upgrades out there!), you get not only syncing & unlimited notes, but a great choice of colours, too!
The first thing I did with it was to list all the things I wanted from a novel template for the Scrivener writing app, then re-order them, expand on them & add a lot more stuff as well, & within 20 minutes I had a useable design for it. That might not sound like much, but I’ve spent years trying! And believe me, it makes my work much easier.
Installation tip: I couldn’t immediately get syncing to work, but when I deleted & reinstalled the iPhone version it worked fine.
I’d unhesitatingly recommend Scroll to anyone who wants to list information & develop their ideas. It has tags & gives reminders, too, so if you use David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” or any similar kind of methodology you’ll find Scroll an invaluable companion.
Do give it a try! I’m sure you won’t regret it 😊
If you upgrade (at £4-99 for iPhone, Mac & iPad, it surely has to be one of the best value upgrades out there!), you get not only syncing & unlimited notes, but a great choice of colours, too!
The first thing I did with it was to list all the things I wanted from a novel template for the Scrivener writing app, then re-order them, expand on them & add a lot more stuff as well, & within 20 minutes I had a useable design for it. That might not sound like much, but I’ve spent years trying! And believe me, it makes my work much easier.
Installation tip: I couldn’t immediately get syncing to work, but when I deleted & reinstalled the iPhone version it worked fine.
I’d unhesitatingly recommend Scroll to anyone who wants to list information & develop their ideas. It has tags & gives reminders, too, so if you use David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” or any similar kind of methodology you’ll find Scroll an invaluable companion.
Do give it a try! I’m sure you won’t regret it 😊
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New update —after using for several weeks.
New update have lowered rating down to two stars
This app has a tonne of potential if the developer would just fix what should have been in place from the beginning.
When you say an item is finished, it becomes completely invisible. However it’s still somewhere in the scroll structure (because it’s included in the count of items within the scroll structure) just not accessible to the user. If A user wants to edit the item for completeness they cannot. For that reason must lower the rating from 3 down to 2 stars.
Would also like to see an item have a type of sub-item check list so that each subitem could be identified as open or complete. That would be very handy feature to have.
Everything I said in original review still stands. Past several days have been heavily utilizing this app. When a user adds a photo- make sure to give the photo a title IN THIS APP, if not then it will not be added, although you can see the tiny icon there is no prompt instruction to enter a title. During edits- way too hard to edit in that tiny window. After struggling to edit the user then must go all the way to end of the text BEFORE hitting enter button and app accepts the edit. Yes, it’s still 3 stars for this second review. Yes, it’s 3 stars right now. Why? No color coding of the different outlines. User can only set the theme color for the entire app. I would like to color code each outline topic and have that color code go across the outline items. Started to add content, problem is editing long entires. The format defaults to a tiny edit window at bottom of the screen. Far too small and on the iPad it’s extremely hard to edit. Once edit is done the user is forced to scroll down to the end and tap the end point of the text BEFORE being to hit enter which accepts the edit. This is very cumbersome for a user if they are using the on screen keyboard. Another key missing feature is lack of ability to export press say on a web article and have the popup menu display the SCROLL icon. Please consider adding this function and feature in next upgrade. Do color, larger edit window and export icon selection then this app is a solid 4.5 stars.
This app has a tonne of potential if the developer would just fix what should have been in place from the beginning.
When you say an item is finished, it becomes completely invisible. However it’s still somewhere in the scroll structure (because it’s included in the count of items within the scroll structure) just not accessible to the user. If A user wants to edit the item for completeness they cannot. For that reason must lower the rating from 3 down to 2 stars.
Would also like to see an item have a type of sub-item check list so that each subitem could be identified as open or complete. That would be very handy feature to have.
Everything I said in original review still stands. Past several days have been heavily utilizing this app. When a user adds a photo- make sure to give the photo a title IN THIS APP, if not then it will not be added, although you can see the tiny icon there is no prompt instruction to enter a title. During edits- way too hard to edit in that tiny window. After struggling to edit the user then must go all the way to end of the text BEFORE hitting enter button and app accepts the edit. Yes, it’s still 3 stars for this second review. Yes, it’s 3 stars right now. Why? No color coding of the different outlines. User can only set the theme color for the entire app. I would like to color code each outline topic and have that color code go across the outline items. Started to add content, problem is editing long entires. The format defaults to a tiny edit window at bottom of the screen. Far too small and on the iPad it’s extremely hard to edit. Once edit is done the user is forced to scroll down to the end and tap the end point of the text BEFORE being to hit enter which accepts the edit. This is very cumbersome for a user if they are using the on screen keyboard. Another key missing feature is lack of ability to export press say on a web article and have the popup menu display the SCROLL icon. Please consider adding this function and feature in next upgrade. Do color, larger edit window and export icon selection then this app is a solid 4.5 stars.
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New update —after using for several weeks.
Everything I said in original review still stands.
Past several days have been heavily utilizing this app.
When a user adds a photo- make sure to give the photo a title IN THIS APP, if not then it will not be added, although you can see the tiny icon there is no prompt instruction to enter a title.
During edits- way too hard to edit in that tiny window. After struggling to edit the user then must go all the way to end of the text BEFORE hitting enter button and app accepts the edit.
Yes, it’s still 3 stars for this second review.
Yes, it’s 3 stars right now. Why? No color coding of the different outlines. User can only set the theme color for the entire app. I would like to color code each outline topic and have that color code go across the outline items. Started to add content, problem is editing long entires. The format defaults to a tiny edit window at bottom of the screen. Far too small and on the iPad it’s extremely hard to edit. Once edit is done the user is forced to scroll down to the end and tap the end point of the text BEFORE being to hit enter which accepts the edit. This is very cumbersome for a user if they are using the on screen keyboard. Another key missing feature is lack of ability to export press say on a web article and have the popup menu display the SCROLL icon. Please consider adding this function and feature in next upgrade. Do color, larger edit window and export icon selection then this app is a solid 4.5 stars.
Past several days have been heavily utilizing this app.
When a user adds a photo- make sure to give the photo a title IN THIS APP, if not then it will not be added, although you can see the tiny icon there is no prompt instruction to enter a title.
During edits- way too hard to edit in that tiny window. After struggling to edit the user then must go all the way to end of the text BEFORE hitting enter button and app accepts the edit.
Yes, it’s still 3 stars for this second review.
Yes, it’s 3 stars right now. Why? No color coding of the different outlines. User can only set the theme color for the entire app. I would like to color code each outline topic and have that color code go across the outline items. Started to add content, problem is editing long entires. The format defaults to a tiny edit window at bottom of the screen. Far too small and on the iPad it’s extremely hard to edit. Once edit is done the user is forced to scroll down to the end and tap the end point of the text BEFORE being to hit enter which accepts the edit. This is very cumbersome for a user if they are using the on screen keyboard. Another key missing feature is lack of ability to export press say on a web article and have the popup menu display the SCROLL icon. Please consider adding this function and feature in next upgrade. Do color, larger edit window and export icon selection then this app is a solid 4.5 stars.
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Just started using
Yes, it’s 3 stars right now. Why? No color coding of the different outlines. User can only set the theme color for the entire app. I would like to color code each outline topic and have that color code go across the outline items.
Started to add content, problem is editing long entires. The format defaults to a tiny edit window at bottom of the screen. Far too small and on the iPad it’s extremely hard to edit. Once edit is done the user is forced to scroll down to the end and tap the end point of the text BEFORE being to hit enter which accepts the edit. This is very cumbersome for a user if they are using the on screen keyboard.
Another key missing feature is lack of ability to export press say on a web article and have the popup menu display the SCROLL icon. Please consider adding this function and feature in next upgrade.
Do color, larger edit window and export icon selection then this app is a solid 4.5 stars.
Started to add content, problem is editing long entires. The format defaults to a tiny edit window at bottom of the screen. Far too small and on the iPad it’s extremely hard to edit. Once edit is done the user is forced to scroll down to the end and tap the end point of the text BEFORE being to hit enter which accepts the edit. This is very cumbersome for a user if they are using the on screen keyboard.
Another key missing feature is lack of ability to export press say on a web article and have the popup menu display the SCROLL icon. Please consider adding this function and feature in next upgrade.
Do color, larger edit window and export icon selection then this app is a solid 4.5 stars.
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Ease of use
Surprised how simple it was to create. The focus felt natural without tons of features from an outline app just there to be there. Outliner Scroll lets you create with ease.
Data Management?
Testing this app and enjoying it very much, but the developer has no website to speak of, and there’s no documentation anywhere. The interface is very intuitive so that’s not much of a problem. But where is my data and in what format? Opml would be great for import and export. I’d be very grateful for a response from the developer (or somebody else if I just missed it).
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Outstanding Support
A great little app with superb support.
Simple, prefer over Notion
I’m using this app to brainstorm content ideas - and I’m loving it so far! So many people have recommended Notion to me - but I feel like Notion has so much of a learning curve - I end up avoiding my tasks. This app helps me keep all my to do’s neat and it’s very intuitive to use! Also the support has been very quick to answer questions about using the app which is appreciated. Love supporting smaller app creators!
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Best App for Outlining Novels
As an author, I use Scroll for planning my novels. It’s perfect for outlining, and allows me to add a lot of detail to my notes in a precise order and to every single book individually. I like the design and I can keep all my notes in one place categorised under the name of the novel instead of in a million different apps and places.
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Great Update
I have been watching this app and am pleased to see a new update with bookmarks and widgets and a view for all reminders.
Some ideas for future development:
• Supprt links from URLs and ideally show previews of webpages too.
• Share to function to share links text and images from other apps.
• Tinted icons for iOS 18 (as well as a few more colorful ones to choose from)
• Support callback hyperlinks (to launch links to content in other apps)
• Full screen note view where we could write in an editor with multiple paragraphs for longer notes, articles or even journal entries
• Option to show creation/modification date of note in a discrete way (maybe an info panel)
• Multiple image support (and be able to select and add them at once) with ability to swipe them left to write to preview them (like photo app)
• Drag and drop notes into sister notes to nest them (as an easier alternative to the move function)
I realize that’s a lot, but I wanted to share those suggestions...
All in all, It’s still a fantastic app for outlining and short notes, just wish I could use it for more of the things I would like to use it for ... and hope to see it continually be developed. Because it is a very beautiful and unique app.
Keep up the good work.
Some ideas for future development:
• Supprt links from URLs and ideally show previews of webpages too.
• Share to function to share links text and images from other apps.
• Tinted icons for iOS 18 (as well as a few more colorful ones to choose from)
• Support callback hyperlinks (to launch links to content in other apps)
• Full screen note view where we could write in an editor with multiple paragraphs for longer notes, articles or even journal entries
• Option to show creation/modification date of note in a discrete way (maybe an info panel)
• Multiple image support (and be able to select and add them at once) with ability to swipe them left to write to preview them (like photo app)
• Drag and drop notes into sister notes to nest them (as an easier alternative to the move function)
I realize that’s a lot, but I wanted to share those suggestions...
All in all, It’s still a fantastic app for outlining and short notes, just wish I could use it for more of the things I would like to use it for ... and hope to see it continually be developed. Because it is a very beautiful and unique app.
Keep up the good work.
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LOVE THIS APP
This is the perfect app for capturing all my ideas in a distraction-free writing enviornment. I use it mainly for creative writing, but I have found it useful for other purposes as well. I also love that it feels like I am texting myself. When I found out that this app was on my iPad and MAC I was even more excited! Highly recommend. :)
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Brilliant app
I have been an avid user of outliner apps for years but this one has really caught my eye.
Simple to use and easy to use. What I like is the ability to set reminders and tags for sear bing. The search is pretty good anyway. Yes like all apps this can have extra features but the concept of it is great. Nice and customisable so you can set the colours that you like. The support is super fast and helpful.
As said lite on features but easy and great to use.
Keep up the good work and look forward to seeing any developments.
Karl
Simple to use and easy to use. What I like is the ability to set reminders and tags for sear bing. The search is pretty good anyway. Yes like all apps this can have extra features but the concept of it is great. Nice and customisable so you can set the colours that you like. The support is super fast and helpful.
As said lite on features but easy and great to use.
Keep up the good work and look forward to seeing any developments.
Karl
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Useful for a particular purpose
This is the kind of app that might really suit a person/task or not.
I'm finding it very useful for planning a project. Each aspect of the project can continue to be broken down into finer and finer detail through the layers. My only wish at this stage is that there becomes an option for some items in the lists to be checkboxes
I'm finding it very useful for planning a project. Each aspect of the project can continue to be broken down into finer and finer detail through the layers. My only wish at this stage is that there becomes an option for some items in the lists to be checkboxes
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Good but could be better.
This app is nice and easy to work. Not to mention that has helped me with my planning over the last days.
However, developers please work on the following:
- Drag and move notes without having to use the move option, its just too complicated.
- Deleted bin ? - I just lost a list and no idea in how to recover it
- Maybe a way to separate completed vs incompleted.
Its also amazing the fact that you can export the lists!
Thank you so much and excided for the upcoming upgrades.
However, developers please work on the following:
- Drag and move notes without having to use the move option, its just too complicated.
- Deleted bin ? - I just lost a list and no idea in how to recover it
- Maybe a way to separate completed vs incompleted.
Its also amazing the fact that you can export the lists!
Thank you so much and excided for the upcoming upgrades.
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Excellent response from developers!
App is awesome and developer was extremely responsive to any issue I had and fixed it right away!! Thank you so much! Can't wait for future updates!!
Response from developer
Thank you very much for your review - awesome ideas! I Just wanted to reply quickly that 1) was an oversight and will be fixed in the next update!
Love but...!
Love but.. 1) can you prevent the splash screen from opening every time we open the app and instead just go straight to the lists 2) can you make for easier sorting by either category or alphabetically for example 3) widgets please! 4) can you allow 'Tap' to complete task and swipe to add a new list, also swipe to move items instead of long hold. 5) can you add three categories : "one time list" "routine lists" and "completed"! List? 6) color coding options would be great! 7) also improved search experience. With the ability to search for more than just hashtags and the ability to search for a folder to move and item to. Thank you!
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Response from developer
Thank you very much for your review - awesome ideas! I Just wanted to reply quickly that 1) was an oversight and will be fixed in the next update!
Great Simple and Lightweight App
Been using this app for the last few weeks and so far I’m liking it’s simplicity and ease of use.
As much as I like it, there are a few things I wish the developers would implement for future versions.
1. Ability to drag and drop list items between tabs on Mac
2. Options to add a checkbox/circle next to each list item to mark it as completed instead of having to right click or hold touch
3. Ability to customize width of tabs on Mac
4. Ability to write in markdown
As much as I like it, there are a few things I wish the developers would implement for future versions.
1. Ability to drag and drop list items between tabs on Mac
2. Options to add a checkbox/circle next to each list item to mark it as completed instead of having to right click or hold touch
3. Ability to customize width of tabs on Mac
4. Ability to write in markdown
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