Scrybe

Sector: Office 2.0

Management: Faizan Buzdar is co-founder and CEO.

Funding: Bootstrapped.

Secret Sauce: Scrybe offers the prettiest Web 2.0 calendar system seen yet. It’s currently in beta (though not for long, it promises); more features and applications are coming soon. Scrybe’s beauty: although the calendar is an online app, it’s got great offline capabilities. Add appointments and events while you’re offline, and it automatically syncs up when you’re back on. For when you’re even more offline, Scrybe makes it easy to bring your calendar on paper by offering handy printable formats to take along. Another big plus is the obvious attention paid to usability and interface: what you’re focusing on gets more real estate and it feels truly simple to add or modify events. One of the next things up is the ThoughtPad app, which wants to make it really easy to capture (and later share) webpages, links, and files you run across and want to keep together. Altogether, Scrybe looks like it’s planning to replace–and finally get right–all the stuff you did with and contained in your old-style FranklinCovey-type organizer. Other companies big and small are offering separate chunks of Scrybe’s promised functionalities, but with its great leap forward in online/offline usability and an intuitive, integrated system in the works, Scrybe could carve out a very nice place for itself.

Seen and Heard: Techcrunch indicates that Scrybe could set a new standard in office apps, and CNet’s Rafe Needleman thinks Scrybe lives up to its demo, saying, “As you navigate from months to weeks to days, calendar boxes zoom in and out beautifully, and days scroll by as you go forward and back. It’s like using a Macintosh: these UI cues make it much easier for your brain to follow what your hands are doing with your mouse. Adding and modifying appointments is easy and intuitive.”