What is Nutshell?

There are a lot of information management applications. Most are built into e-mail clients, or are e-mail clients built into information management applications that also seem to think they are enterprise-class database servers. Nutshell takes the opposite approach. It is simple. Mega-simple.

Nutshell can do three things well. It has the search box of search boxes, which has its own abbreviated search language that can be used to send keywords and keyphrases to several sites, including Flickr, eBay and Google. It has a notetaking function, which organizes notes in a collapsing list with date and time. Nutshell also has a very nice to-do list which can organize tasks into categorical lists with a drop-down menu. The to-do list can even be published with an RSS feed.

Nothing gets in the way on the Nutshell site. It's Web 2.0 but with a minimalist approach which avoids clutter and confusion. Simple is good.