2012/02/10

[Free] Flava: a well-integrated info collector

With mobile phone, it's great to have an app to collect pieces of info such as memo, photo, music, web page, even the voice recording, if you are looking for such an app, Flava can be your good choice! With the clean and beautiful interface design, it's really great fun to use this app!

Link:Flava
Price:Free
Ratings:4.5/5

Pros:
  1. Integrate with external sources well to provide users more info by just a click away, ex. music + YouTube, book info + Google Books
  2. Well-integrated with all kinds of social networking services, even the phone functions to make it easy to share info. I've read about user comment on the lack of sharing on last version, and Flava did it great on it later, it's really good to see this!
  3. Password for locking info to keep privacy
  4. Clean & simple interface, icons & pictures are lovely to be more visual appealing
Suggestions:
  1. It takes some time to load the map
  2. Although the icons for category are cute, but have no idea what they exactly mean
  3. It takes much mental effort to add URL info, it will be better for search, select to add.

After entering the app, 3 tabs are listed below:
  1. List view of all memos
  2. Calendar view of memos
  3. Settings
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  • Memo list view

  1. Tap "Edit" to delete memos
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  1. Pull to show the different icons to display that kind of info only.
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Calendar view, select the date and the info of the day will show below.
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Tap + to add any kinds of info
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  • Text Only mode
  1. Tap to add text here
  2. Change font color
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  1. When you edit text, you can also change date here by data picker
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  1. Use icons to classify your information
  2. You can even lock the info as you wish
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With 4 digits as password, the info will be locked, you can assign different password for each piece of info.
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  1. Share via social networking services such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr...and so on.
  2. Export your info to Email, SMS, you can even export photos to Photo Albums
  3. Delete the info
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  • Photo 
Take new photos or import from photo albums
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  1. Lots of cute items to be added to your photos, you can resale by pinching to fit to the photo
  2. Add messages
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  • Places

  1. Input the keyword to search for the place
  2. The map will appear here
  3. Tap "Next" to add more info
It takes some time to load the map and sometimes it doesn't locate the place I want, the accuracy should be improved.
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  • Music
When you tap "Music", the Music library will be launched and the interface asks you to select song, one song only for each time.
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  1. The most amazing part is that you can tap "YouTibe" to link to the MV on YouTube, what a great integration!
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Again you can share MV via Mail link or SMS link.
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  • Books
Input the book to search for the desired one.
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  1. Click "Google books" to relate to the page to get e-books and reviews.
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  • URL
You have to input the complete URL to attach this webpage, or this app can't identify it even with only one wrong character. But the keyboard is customized for easier input.
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It's not easy for users to remember the long URL, and it will waste lots of time inputting the whole URL, it will be better to search then select just like Books did.
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Once the app identify the webpage, it will show the thumbnails below and you can select your favorite one to be the cover.
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The interface has been adjusted as a clear list view for better experience.
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  • Record
  1. Tape to start recording
  2. Tap to stop recording
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Once you stop recording, next time when you tap the red button again, this action sheet will appear.
  1. Continue recording to save as one single file
  2. Start as a new record
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You can replay the recording, moreover, you can send this recording to E-mail or other supported app.
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  • Settings
Here you can edit your SNS accounts, password, and back up your info to Dropbox & evernote.

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