{"id":112,"date":"2015-03-08T11:08:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T15:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snipnotes.de\/?p=112"},"modified":"2015-05-15T10:09:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T14:09:31","slug":"the-story-behind-snipnotes-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snipnotes.de\/en\/the-story-behind-snipnotes-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The story behind SnipNotes (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to my second blog series! In this blog post and the next one\u00a0I want to share with you some background information about how SnipNotes became what it is today. After all, the first concept\u00a0of the app had very little\u00a0in common with today’s SnipNotes, even the name was different…<\/p>\n

The app started in October 2014 as a simple clipboard manager, which\u00a0should share data between iOS and OS X devices. At this time most clipboard managers were limited to a single device, so an iCloud-enabled\u00a0utility sounded like a good idea. The iOS version was designed with two widgets in mind, one for copying text\u00a0into the app and one for pasting it back into clipboard. The app also had a suitable name already, AirClipper!<\/p>\n

Around christmas, AirClipper\u00a0looked like this:<\/p>\n

\"AirClipper_1\"<\/a> \"AirClipper_2\"\"AirClipper_3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Looks a little different from today’s SnipNotes, doesn’t it? Of course the design wasn’t final etc., but the whole concept was limited to basically one use case: clipboard sharing.\u00a0The icons were a cosmetic detail at this time, there was no content recognition. Each entry consisted of only one part, its value. The\u00a0two widgets had no chance to talk to each other, so stored items didn’t show up in the “Paste Widget” immediately.<\/p>\n

By the turn of the year, the concept of the app\u00a0had to change quite a bit. On the one hand, many of the planned features like image sharing and an app for OS X were not feasible for the initial release in February due to lack of time, on the other hand and more importantly AirClipper lacked an unique selling feature\u00a0to differentiate itself from its\u00a0growing set of competitors, which came up with widgets and iCloud support as well.<\/p>\n

How did AirClipper become SnipNotes? Read more about it\u00a0in the next post!<\/p>\n

Next article in this series:\u00a0The story behind SnipNotes (Part 2)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to my second blog series! In this blog post and the next one\u00a0I want to share with you some background information about how SnipNotes became what it is today. After all, the first concept\u00a0of the app had very little\u00a0in common with today’s SnipNotes, even the name was different…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snipnotes.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snipnotes.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snipnotes.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snipnotes.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snipnotes.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.snipnotes.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/www.snipnotes.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snipnotes.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snipnotes.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snipnotes.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}