Instructions are written with great attention to detail. The thing is, that some people - like me - completely fail to follow such manuals tasks by written instructions alone. So, currently I "reverse-engineer" knots from your pictures, and use text for resolving parts that I'm not completely sure about. It could be my personal quirk, but, from experience, I think that such debility to written steps for this kind of activity isn't so uncommon. At least few intermediate steps for more complicated knots would surely help a lot. I think that it could be even better than animations - at least as long, as user wouldn't be able to "pause" animation at any chosen point, which would make it even harder to code, I think. I absolutely agree, but if I would already have all those basic knots in memory, I would helper application (unless for quick reminder, maybe? But, for this, a photo alone would probably suffice). Personally, I see qnotted as thing that could help a total newbie to tie a given knot, or learn how to. I know, lazy from our side, there ate tutorials in net etc - but, force Internet isn't always with Luke me, and N900 is. Not to mention that we're all becoming old farts, and memory may not server us so well, after not using particular knot for few years, even if we learned it (think first aid, if you don't refresh training). Running bowline is doable, but required twisting my mind a lot to understand it from picture (with help of guidelines). figure 8 double loop looks doable, but 2nd picture - with yellow rope - send to break laws of physic for me and I can't make it out for a life of mine, I'm, always ending with result from red line, only. figure 9 loop looks like I *could* unknit it (got it?), but for now, I failed. trucker's hitch looks like rocket science, can't make 1+1 out of it (ok, to be fair, I recognize some already-known middlemand-knots, but as for which should go first, second, etc... No idea). Most hitches are quite hard to follow, due to pole obstructing part of view (obviously). Same apply for lashings, but multiplied - funny enough, I know some variations of them from memory (but not names), but initially failed to recognize them from pictures or complete via guideliness. BTW, all knots made with red line are easier to follow than the ones in yellow. Contrast thing, probably.
Is it? So maybe I am the only one but I find the habit of calling applications after whatever they were written in a bit odd. The users generally don't give a monkey's fart about such things so the only one who cares is the app's creator. Which begs the question, why does (s)he care so much that (s)he feels the need to express that in the name. Not that I am suggesting that any of the above applies to Qnotted. It looks really nice.