Shortlists for a phone that opens.
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Working together
6 apps
Apps where somebody else is in the file too
Shared documents, boards and designs, where the screen has to hold your work, the other person's changes, and the conversation about both.
Study
7 apps
Lecture notes and the slide they are about
Note-taking for people being taught something: handwriting over a document, audio recorded against it, and the source material kept where it can be seen.
Plain text
6 apps
Writing that stays a file you can open anywhere
Markdown and plain-text editors, where the format outlives the app — and where the extra width goes into the draft and what surrounds it rather than into chrome.
Comics & manga
6 apps
Pages that were never going to reflow
Comics, manga, magazines and newspapers: the reading where the layout is the work, and a smaller screen does not mean smaller text but less of the composition.
Cameras
5 apps
Camera apps that put the controls where you can see them
Manual capture, tethering and RAW, where the viewfinder and the controls are competing for the same glass and one of them always loses.
Offline
8 apps
Everything downloaded before you leave
Apps that keep working with the signal off — and that are therefore the apps most likely to be the only screen you have, for hours, with nothing else to check against.
PDFs & scores
7 apps
Fixed pages, nearer the size they were set at
Documents that cannot reflow — PDFs, slides, worksheets, sheet music — where the page has one shape and the only question is how much of it fits.
Timelines
7 apps
Apps built on a line that runs left to right
Video and audio editors, where the interface is a horizontal thing and the screen is the only limit on how much of the edit you can see at once.
Infinite canvas
7 apps
The canvas that carries on past the edge of the screen
Apps with no page size at all, where the screen is a window onto something larger — and where a bigger window is not a nicety but the entire interaction.
Two panes
8 apps
Apps that stop having to choose which half to show
The list for the single thing the extra width buys outright: a library and the thing open out of it, on screen together, instead of one hidden behind the other.
