An Ingenious iPhone To-Do List Comes To The Desktop

With a few thoughtful tweaks, the hit iPhone app preserves its minimalist soul. How do you transform an iPhone app so futuristically minimal that it doesn’t even have buttons into something that will work on an old school keyboard-and-mouse-driven Mac? That was the challenge Realmac Software faced when they decided to re-create Clear, their innovative to-do list app, for OS X. Clear made headlines with its tile-based gestural interface, which introduced novel but intuitive interactions (like "pull to clear," which deletes completed to-dos) to the iPhone’s arsenal. But as frustrated Windows 8 users know, flat and gestural may work great on a mobile device but fall flat on a traditional desktop. The teaser video for Clear shows its gestural interface on both iOS and OS X.Dan Counsell, founder of Realmac Software, tells Co.Design that porting Clear to the Mac desktop wasn&...