The number of "add this to our list of features to implement" has certainly grown since I've last visited here. However, year+ old items don't seem to have got much attention, yet, and I wonder if there is any time horizon, or even hope, for those. I am talking about some of my own old posts, of course, but also about others posted since.

Please appreciate that I do not question your priorities or choices. I only wish that the whole process were a bit more transparent so that users could make an informed decision for themselves, too.

Liviu

"liviu" wrote:Any thoughts of open sourcing

And how to develop the app? By working part-time at nights and weekends as a hobby project? Doesn't seem like an acceptable alternative.

List of features to implement is growing faster then we are implementing them, but is it good or bad is difficult to say. Definitely it's easier to generate ideas then implement them. We have many users, thousands, and just two developers. Imagine single task - seamless synchronization between many computers. It will takes 3-4 months of work exclusively on this single task to do it. How many ideas will generate our users during this period? So what shall we do? Shall we say that we make the app open-source because users are too active? I don't think so, we'll simply keep working on the app. By the way, so you know many other software titles where two developers can work on a single project for 3+ years and keep working? I know none - companies are simply doing the simplest possible project, and then sell it, it's not our way or work, we love what we are doing, and we'll keep improving the app daily.

Regarding particular features you need at most - you can contact the support directly to raise up their priority.

Thank you, this pretty much answers my questions.

Please be clear that I did not in any way mean to detract your work in AllMyNotes, or question your dedication to it. I do think, as I wrote before, that you've got a solid concept and a slick application which is getting better by the day.

That said, I also think it's only fair that users both current and potential, be allowed some insight into where the program is going. Back in time, this looked targeted more towards individual/personal usage. Since then it seems to have shifted into higher network/corporate gears. Taking your own "task" example - all the effort you expended into "seamless synchronization" makes little difference to single user scenarios. However, the time spent on it pushed other potential improvements and features onto the back burner. For how long, or if forever, has never been made clear - which was my primary point of contention.

Question about open-sourcing was mostly rhetorical. I don't really have first hand experience in it, but I've seen open source projects working pretty successfully. Can promise that if AllMyNotes goes that way, I'll be the first to submit a source patch to add a configurable option to prompt the save/save-as dialog before closing ;-)

Don't think I'll go into "request escalation" matches, since I don't entertain games where I don't know the rules. It doesn't look like it goes by forum votes, anyway. One recurring request (indenting of bulleted-lines continuations) has been supported by several users including myself since early last year but hasn't received any attention.

As for other softwares, yes, it so happens that I know of a few who've been single-handedly developed and maintained for decades, still are. You may need to google Epsilon or ZTree for example, and you may call them "niche", but they've had a loyal following for the longest of times, and a big part of that was that the respective authors have always been very responsive, and transparent about their philosophy and roadmap.

Liviu

"liviu" wrote:...add a configurable option to prompt the save/save-as dialog before closing ;-)

Ok, done, read details here - http://www.vladonai.com/forum/how-do-i-f5/history-of-changes-is-better-in-all-my-notes-organizer-a-perfect-evernote-alternative-t593.html

P.S. Please sorry for delays and shortnes of my reply - got bit overlaoded lately :)

"vlad" wrote:Ok, done, read details here

Thanks. This got me piqued into the v3 beta builds. Only wish there was a portable .zip download, too.

P.S. I'll dream now that some future build may come with bullets that scale along the font, and indentation options for line continuations ;-)