


Swiping left or right will check an item off or delete it. To insert a new item between two others you pinch apart and to go ‘back’ a level, you pinch inwards. To reorder them, you tap and hold, then slide. Back, next, new and many other commands are primarily activated via icon or word-emblazoned buttons.Ĭlear takes a different tack, as its interface lacks any standard buttons and operates completely through gestures, taps or direct manipulation of the list items on the screen. Since the introduction of the iPhone OS on the very first iPhone, Apple’s design conventions have called for having on-screen buttons that emulate, via software, the behavior of traditional physical buttons. More importantly, it has an intensely clever user interface that has the potential to be a harbinger of things to come on multitouch devices. But it is a very good basic scratchpad for items that you’d like to remember on a short-term basis. It’s probably not going to make your ‘getting things done’ workflow crumble and reform around it, and it lacks a ton of must-have features for any big GTD fan. To be completely honest, Clear is a simple and relatively limited list app. Clear is the first app from fresh development studio Impending, founded by tap tap tap partner Phill Ryu and David Lanham of the Iconfactory, in partnership with Milen Dzhumerov, and the hugely talented folks at Realmac Software, who made the lovely Analog.
