Well, long-winded Jott post aside, here's what else I'm taking off of my iPhone, and why....
iWant - It was my survivor of the "service location app" wars. I tried several of them, and this looked like it wasn't necessarily the best, but it did more things well than the other options - ATMs, pharmacies, bars and restaurants, movies, gas, etc. I think one of the reviews pointed out that everything it did could pretty much be done with Google Maps. Looking back at it, yeah - it does work pretty well, good interface - but again - I've used it maybe once, and that was right after I got it, I think. I have used the Google Maps search function to find more things, plus I have Urbanspoon to look up bars and restaurants and Now Playing for movies, and I've never really had a problem finding gas. But it's taking up space, so I'm going to get rid of it....
YouNote - I was searching around for a better notepad app, and this won amongst several other choices. I like the fact that it has several different types of notes (text, drawing, camera, voice, web, and multinote), that I can tag and color code and sort on three matrices. But it is less than ideal in that a) I can't rotate the screen, b) there's no formatting, c) I can synch my notes to my PC using a desktop app - but it doesn't really use the Cloud. I think I'll stick with Evernote, which is Cloud-based, even if I can't format the notes in the iPhone app (but I can in the desktop application and web interface, and it shows up fine in the iPhone app) or rotate the screen. Plus - Evernote also allows for a variety of notes (not a drawing note, alas - but voice and camera notes), and eliminates redundancy.
PanoLab - Neat functionality - stitching photos together into panoramas. But the fact is, I can do this with PhotoShop elements - and I can do it better. I will likely not be doing any major photo manipulation on the iPhone and wait until I can load the photos onto the main computer.
Photogene - Similar thing. Decent functionality, but photo manipulation is better done on the desktop.
Sketches and/or NetSketch - Both of these are drawing programs. I'm thinking I should keep one of these - I don't have this functionality. But I'm not sure which one. I believe Sketches has better functionality, but NetSketch does allow you to share with other NetSketch people and collaborate on drawings via WiFi. I doubt I'm going to use this feature, and I'll likely stay with Sketches. But I might remove both - I haven't actually needed to use either.
There are others that I haven't used much - Units, Truveo, Shazam, Stanza, USA Manual, Baseball, Geocaching, QwasiPad (which seems to have stopped working), Easy Wi-Fi (which has never worked, but I think there's something wrong with my AT&T account and my phone). Plus there are a slew of games that have lost their luster but I just don't want to get rid of, namely Koi and Ocarina. But given that I'm about to kill Jott, at least 5 of the above apps, and I'm replacing my on screen web bookmarks with iDash Pad (a total of 5 bookmarks) - that's a total of 11 slots, about 2/3 of a page.
Good thing, because I've got several new apps I want to try....
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