Services that replace paper

A brief overview of several services united by one goal - they are able to simplify life and make in some situations forget about paper and pen.

Jotsky

Love sticky yellow and green pieces of paper and you cannot live without them, but at the same time you feel discomfort when they are not there, and are they so necessary? LiveJournal thought about this for you and created Jotsky - electronic stickers. The simplicity of the interface, beauty and functionality are the main advantages of Jotsky in front of simple stickers.



For quick access to the site stickers, you can put the background web page instead of the usual wallpaper. It will turn out this desktop.
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Key features:

• Stickers are available wherever there is Internet, and not only where they are pasted :-);
• Five color stickers;
• Automatic selection of font height depending on the size of the text;
• Three types of sorting - by date, by color and custom (where the sticker was placed, there it will be);
• Content filtering;
• Create a sticker by sending a sms.

The last advantage, in my opinion, is the most important thing, because brilliant thoughts do not always come at the moment when there is a computer or paper at hand. In addition, the cost of the message is very democratic - less than 2.5 rubles (Beeline - 2.29, MegaFon - 2.40, MTS - 2.30)

Vspisok

Going on business and making a list of everything you need to do? Do you want to send your wife \ husband \ child \ crocodile to the store for buying heaps of products that are not easy to remember? Then try this service. It is focused on creating shopping lists (there can be not only products, but anything) in a simple and convenient way.



Key features:

• Creating the list itself, in fact, with an optional indication of the quantity in pieces, liters, packages, kilograms;
• Selection of products from categorized sets + auto-help as you write the name of the product;
• Creating your own sets of goods for later use;
• Access to lists from anywhere where there is Internet (including from a mobile phone);
• Ability to send a list to print, e-mail and sms.

Sending an SMS with a list here is also not free, but the price is low - about one and a half rubles per message. But how much convenience it turns out in return - it’s much easier to open the site and write a list in two minutes and send it to SMS than to spend the same two minutes transferring the necessary goods to a person who is currently on the way to the store.

Balsamiq mockups

This tool has already been written recently, but it is simply impossible not to include it in the paper alternative.



Balsamiq Mockups allows you to quickly make a sketch of the future interface, be it a web site or a client application window, from more than 60 different ready-made objects.

Key features:

• Many ready-made controls and design (buttons, lists, tabs, diagrams ...)
• The style of "freehand", giving a certain originality of the outline and similarity with drawing on paper (but offering the possibility of editing what has been done, unlike paper)
• Saving for later use \ changes and export to PNG

Unfortunately (or fortunately?) The tool is paid, but there is a free demo version , which, in my opinion, is quite functional to use it - the interfaces are not only created, but also exported to PNG and saved. The only inconvenience is that every five minutes a dialog box appears stating that this is a demo version.