nContxt: The right things. The right time.
nContxt is a mobile interface for 37signals‘ Highrise contact manager. It works on iPhones. It works on Windows Mobile phones, non-smartphones. It works on any phone with a web browsers. It’s free for the first week, and then $5/month.
Here are some screenshots (more here):
After logging in, you can search your contacts (people and companies). You also see a list of upcoming tasks and their associated party:
Searching for a person/company will display a list of results:
Clicking on a name shows the info for a person…
…or a company.
You can drill down to see more info.
As you’d expect, the phone numbers are nice and clickable (we are on a mobile :-)) , as are the email addresses and websites.
Using the SimpleHighrise PHP API, nContxt generates compact, XHTML Strict pages that render flawlessly on mobile browsers. This is an answer to the call for a mobile version of Highrise.
nContxt: The right things. The right time. Try it today. It’s free for the first week, and then $5/month.
October 19th, 2007 at 6:52 am
On an iPhone why would I use this and not go directly into Highrise?
October 19th, 2007 at 7:55 am
Thanks for the question Matt.
nContxt is a universal solution to mobile access to your HR account. It works on all phones, and the target here is not specifically iPhones, but the 99% of mobile phones that are not iPhones.
I’ve had some intermittent issues with adding & updating on [tasks, especially from the dashboard] on the iPhone. nContxt works around this via a simplified interface.
December 31st, 2007 at 1:12 am
This looks ugly and I’ve come to expect iphone sites to always look great on my iphone.
Any plans on sprucing it up?
January 7th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Hi Douglas,
The UI on nContxt is plain because it is built to be fast on any and every mobile browser. It is not optimized for iPhone UI or for pretty-ness; it is built for speed, flexibility, and the ability to run on all phones.
February 18th, 2008 at 11:55 am
What are the chances that you could develop a highrise interface specifically for Blackberry? If I could synchronize my outlook/blackberry calendars with all of my tasks from Highrise, life would be good.