I’m one of the devs on Kobble. Thanks for the comments. When you start the app, there is tutorial information and videos on the first screen. We do agree that the landing page could use improvement.
The data model is somewhat like YouTube, except the items are not just videos. They can be bookmarks, markdown documents, or presentations (made with markdown also). It’s all built around sharing. It’s easy to share channels with other users, for instance.
Kobble also has extensive support for iOS drag and drop. If you use the multitasking capabilities of the iPad, you can just drag links or text directly into Kobble. The Kobble tree supports drag and drop also. It’s quite efficient at organising information from the web.
I'm one of the Kobble devs. This is intentional. Please read the comments above about public and private use of Kobble. The intros on the web have been clarified also.
Please read the comments above about the various uses of Kobble. Gists are for public use and sharing. Private repos are coming very soon for other use cases.
We have improved the wording, and changed 'own' to 'control'. As was stated elsewhere in these comments, we are building an open content sharing platform where users 'control' the data, not us. Since it's in your GitHub account and not on our servers, you can do whatever you want with it.
I'm one of the devs for Kobble. Since Kobble is such a versatile tool, it can be quite difficult to tune a marketing message clearly. We are working on it!
One of Kobble's primary uses is as an open content sharing platform. GitHub gists were chosen for this purpose intentionally, because the discovery mechanisms are built into GitHub. On top of that, we have built a flexible data model (similar to YouTube) for organizing and sharing the content.
Private repos (which are coming shortly) address the other use case where you want to keep data private. We have clarified this in the intros.
I'm one of the devs on Kobble. Kobble is a versatile tool that can be used in a variety of ways.
One way is as a content sharing platform. Gists are great for this purpose, because as you have noted, the discovery mechanisms are largely built into GitHub. Our use of gists for this purpose was entirely intentional. On top of that, we have built a flexible data model (similar to YouTube) for organizing and sharing the content. We are attempting to build an open content sharing platform where users have control over the data.
For note taking, obviously you want private access. We will have support for private repos very shortly. This was stated in the intros, and we have improved the wording to make it clearer.
The data model is somewhat like YouTube, except the items are not just videos. They can be bookmarks, markdown documents, or presentations (made with markdown also). It’s all built around sharing. It’s easy to share channels with other users, for instance.
Kobble also has extensive support for iOS drag and drop. If you use the multitasking capabilities of the iPad, you can just drag links or text directly into Kobble. The Kobble tree supports drag and drop also. It’s quite efficient at organising information from the web.
Cheers.