SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Catch.com, a San Francisco-based leader in creating mobile applications designed to help people be smarter and more productive, today announced that its Catch application now includes Streams functionality. Users will be able to group notes into collections to be kept as a private themed journal or shared selectively as a collaborative space.
As smartphones become increasingly integral to our daily lives, with the average consumer checking his or her smartphone more than 40 times per day1, Catch is creating applications that convert the smartphone into a collaboration tool built for active, creative people.
“Using Catch, you have been able to create a private journal of everything that’s important to you,” said Steve Brown, chief executive officer at Catch. “Catch now offers Streams to produce a collaborative space where you can collect your ideas, then evolve them into a conversation, collaboration or focused project by inviting others to contribute their own thoughts.”
Fast, Lightweight Sharing
Streams include:
- A fast, lightweight platform supporting mobile contributors collecting information or updates related to projects;
- An invitation system that allows users to keep each Stream private or share it with others to expand the collaborative space;
- Enhanced note filtering by order of chronology, priority, and multiple hashtags;
- Improved platform parity among Web and mobile clients, including starred note support in all clients.
Anatomy of a Stream
Streams support collaboration through an evolutionary process:
- Capture. You capture a breakthrough idea in your private Catch journal and add photos and web links in additional notes, creating a private stream.
- Invite. To develop and evolve the idea further you create a stream and invite two colleagues to join in the brainstorm. One of them invites a third co-worker to add another perspective.
- Collaborate. The group becomes a creative team, and collectively builds on the original idea, attaching pertinent documents, notes, responsibilities, deadlines, and web URLs to the conversation. Ideas evolve quickly but all of the notes within the stream can still be sorted by tags, by date, by author, by name.
- Result. Working asynchronously over just a couple of days — adding ideas when inspiration strikes, with nothing more than smartphones — your team has all it needs to build your idea into a collaborative project.
For more details on Streams examples, visit the Catch blog at https://catch.com/blog.
Pricing and Availability
Catch’s applications are free for download on the Android Market and run on Android smartphones, as well as tablets and PCs. Download Catch with Streams today at https://catch.com/resources/.
Catch with Streams will be coming soon to the iTunes App Store for iPhone and iPad.
About Catch
Founded in 2008, Catch is a San Francisco-based technology company focused on building mobile applications that help active and creative people to be more productive. A leader in the Android apps market, millions of people worldwide have downloaded its mobile applications, which include Catch, AK Notepad, and Compass. The company’s flagship application, Catch, is a mobile productivity tool for your smartphone (Android or iPhone), tablet or computer. It captures and organizes your thoughts, memories and the ideas that matter most to you and stores them in the cloud for safekeeping and collaboration. Catch has raised over $8 million to date with Excel Venture Management, Greylock Discovery Fund, WTI and angels.
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1 Google Shop.org keynote, Google Insights on Local, Mobile, and Payments, September 2011