DraftPad- how it helps

I have been writing about writing apps lately. SimpleNote, Evernote, DraftPad. The nagging question is: Is DraftPad necessary?

I have been living with it for a few weeks, and keeping track of how I use it.

• Notes about a restaurant review while sitting in the dining room
• Notes for action later while on the job
• Things to add to To Do lists
• Research ideas for future online sessions

I inadvertently deleted notes I had made on the fly in DraftPad. One of it's key features is the ability to go back and get old versions, a'la Time Machine- saved me a bit of reconstructive writing, I like that alot.

PlainText is the only app I use that rivals DraftPad, but

Readers know I like SimpleNote, but once you populate SimpleNote with a few hundred notes, and a dozen tags, it is not longer completely spontaneous. DraftPad is. It is always ready, alway a blank slate, and let's me write what occurs to me, then decide if it is worth saving, and how to save it. Good little app. Of corse PlainText can do the same thing, and saves to Dropbox. Hmmm, I see a comparison coming.