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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« on: March 23, 2015, 03:18 PM »
I just found Auspex and think its great and extremely useful. Are there any plans for an update?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Current development status on FARR? No stable version released this year
« on: November 28, 2014, 10:35 AM »
I'm also very glad to hear that FARR development will continue! Its an amazing program!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Let's Fork The Thread! Linux Notetaking Thread!
« on: August 24, 2009, 12:17 PM »
Good point adriatic.

Of course a developer cannot be familiar with every piece of software.  So its very reasonable that not every developer has used OneNote or all the note-taking programs would clearly be influenced by it.  And that is not the case.

Instead of criticizing someone's lack of familiarity with a software application, lets build a list of what we do want and show it to adriatic and see if we can contribute to his very decent program.

How shall we begin?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Let's Fork The Thread! Linux Notetaking Thread!
« on: August 24, 2009, 08:09 AM »
Hi, I am the author of Notecase (Pro) program.
Nice thread, I got few interesting ideas here (the one to preserve URL of pasted content is new to me).

To give you my 2 cents of advice:
quite a lot of program authors would live to get good high quality feedback and ideas on how to improve his program.

When/if you decide on a program you want to support, it would be good to invest some time to make detailed analysis (as a group) to help the author to see your vision of the progress for the program.
Perhaps it is the best to to this before your contribution because some features you want to push might get rejected :-)
-adriatic (August 24, 2009, 04:46 AM)

Adriatic is right- we should make a list:
1. the types of features we want and include diagrams or screen shots. 
2.  we should also point out the things we do not want and do NOT like about certain applications/features

We can't ask a developer to do everything and hope it is what we want.  Also, they have their own ideas and have spent years studying various ways of organizing data and they are, after all, in charge of the project  ;D

Adriatic is a very responsive developer and very keen on seeing his project develop.  Let's provide constructive advice and work together.  :D

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General Software Discussion / Re: Let's Fork The Thread! Linux Notetaking Thread!
« on: August 23, 2009, 09:35 PM »
Hi coolrat.
In my view rightNote = treDBnotes, but much more polished.
Unfortunately, I sent quite a lot of feedback to the dev, which he systematically ignored :), and he doesn't really care for linux at all it seems.

I'm really surprised at how big the opportunity here is. There 's a huge hole in the market for something like oneNote for linux (or portable and not tied to a vendor in the files it produces!).
-urlwolf (August 23, 2009, 12:50 PM)

I haven't tried RightNotes but became interested in it from its website.  I have downloaded it, but havent' installed it yet in WINE.
I wrote to the developer a few days ago and he DID reply.  He said that he had many many requests for a Linux version but thought that Linux users might not be willing to pay for software.  I assured him that many WOULD in fact be willing to pay for good software.

Like you mentioned, I urged the developer that the Linux market was growing daily and right now, there is a huge hole in the Linux market for a good note application.  So I'm waiting for his reply.   Maybe you should contact him with your/our plan?

What about Mindraider, ResearchAssistant or NoteCasePro?  I think these OpenSource initiatives should be given first priority.  I'm happy to help pay for their development if they remain open source.  Think of how many people in developing countries (or people lacking financial resources regardless of where they live) could benefit from note-taking software.  Generally, these programs run well on low-powered older computers.

(hahaha URLWOLF- that was funny!  Ask Microsoft!  HOHOHO.  Even if they made a Linux version, I'd never go back.  Plus isn't OneNote around 400 megs?  My TreeDBnotes is about 7 megs!)

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