Ideafall vs PracticeMeter

Ideafall (formerly Ideabook) helps creative minds focus on their best ideas. From ideation and capturing of ideas to reviewing and decision making, Ideafall supports your entire creative process in a unique and practical way. CAPTURE YOUR IDEAS Easily capture all your ideas - wherever you are. Got inspired while reading something on the web? Simply select the relevant text and share it with Ideafall. Quickly add additional thoughts to existing ideas via Spotlight-enabled search. Collecting your ideas has never been easier. Never lose a good idea again. BRAINSTORM & IDEATE Sometimes you need a more visual setting for coming up with new ideas for a specific topic. Or you want to do a brainstorming session in a more organized way. This is where "spaces" come in: visually organize your ideas via idea cards, group related ideas together and help your brain to understand the big picture. EVALUATE. REVIEW. DECIDE Innovative people typically have too many ideas, rather than too few. But to be successful we have to focus on our best ideas. Ideafall helps you to rate ideas regarding up to 10 configurable criteria and analyze them using bubble charts. Improve your chances of success by evaluating ideas more objectively and thus, making more informed decisions. ROADMAP & EXECUTE The best ideas are not worth anything without a proper strategy on how to execute them. The agile roadmap enables you to schedule your ideas across four different horizons: Now, Next, Later, and Someday. The "roadmap" view is visualized as a Kanban board and supports drag & drop. Implement and track your ideas more efficiently with the help of a clear, agile execution strategy. FEATURES - Searchable tabular "Ideas" view with adjustable sort order - Clear drag & drop enabled "Spaces" view for spatially organizing ideas using idea cards - Unique "Bubbles" view for analyzing ideas using customizable bubble charts in four dimensions (x, y, bubble size and color) - Kanban-style, agile "Roadmap" with four horizons (Now, Next, Later, Someday) for planning an execution strategy using drag & drop - Global portfolio filter - Easy sharing of idea spaces and bubble charts as image or PDF documents - Clean and at the same time highly visual user experience - Built-in support for accessibility - Seamless syncing via iCloud Get Ideafall and focus your creativity!

Improve your daily, weekly, and monthly practice habits by tracking your progress each day. Whether you are a practicing musician, athlete, or are learning a new skill, PracticeMeter can help you in organizing and motivating your personal practice. Available on iPhone and Apple Watch. Start a Session Simply press the ‘Start’ button at the beginning of your practice session. A timer will begin. After your practice session press the stop button. PracticeMeter will ask you what you practiced. In addition to tracking the amount of time, you can organize your practice sessions into Fundamentals and Goals. Fundamentals Fundamentals are skills that you want to develop each day. It may include a specific warmup routine with activities that are repeated each day. For a musician, this may include breathing activities, long tones, scales, etc… For an athlete, it may include stretches, breathing, and specific strength training exercises. If you are using PracticeMeter to improve your mindfulness, your Fundamentals may include specific meditation practice. Fundamentals may be archived for future use so that you are only repeating the items that you are currently focused on. Goals Goals are specific projects that you are currently working on. They include a progress bar so that you can self-assess how close you are to reaching your Goal. You will want to work on your Goals each day, seeing the progress toward completion gradually increase. Once you reach 100%, your Goal is cleared off of your daily routine and logged under Completed Goals. Time The default practice time for each day is 120 minutes, but you can set your own practice time goal in settings. Accomplishments As you practice each day, you’re rewarded with accomplishments. Accomplishments may include having a perfect week of practice, where you met your time goal and practiced all of your Fundamentals, and worked toward your Goals each day of the week. PracticeMeter will track your Streaks as well. Accomplishments are available for multiple perfect weeks of practicing your fundamentals and goals, as well as long-term Accomplishments for total practice time. Reports The Reports view logs your practice sessions, organized by day. You can keep notes about your practice sessions and share your statistics via text or email. Reports also provide a weekly view of your practice time. If you forgot to press ‘Start’ when beginning a practice session, you can add practice time to each day of the week. A single tap will add 15 minutes, while a long press on the day of the week will allow you to enter your total practice time for the day. Tap on the total time to toggle between minutes and hours. Widgets In iOS 14, Apple introduced Home Screen Widgets. PracticeMeter Widgets are available in a variety of formats for seeing your ring progress throughout the day. Apple Watch PracticeMeter will sync with your Apple Watch. Use your watch to start practice sessions add or delete fundamentals and goals, set a new practice time goal, and view your accomplishments. To add new fundamentals and goals, long press on the fundamental or goals header. Watch Complications include a simple circular view for keeping track of your daily practice time, as well as a larger rectangular view to see your daily progress of fundamentals, goals, and practice time. I hope you enjoy using PracticeMeter. Let’s get practicing!