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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Suggestions for development of cross-platform Linux Outliner Note software

« on: October 20, 2009, 01:18 PM »

notetaking on top of wave is that you have an API for extensions already built-in. And even an user base of extension developers. For example:

-urlwolf (October 20, 2009, 11:00 AM)

Hm.. thanks for your suggestion.
I have never heard of WAVE.  Do I need an invitation? If so, please send on to me so that my little team here can test it.

I have a friend working for Google who reports that they are coming out with Google Smart Notebook soon.  Is this the same thing?

We want to avoid any reliance on online applications. Our plans include developing a plugin for on-line backup or collaboration, but we certainly do not want our application to depend on connection to the internet.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Suggestions for development of cross-platform Linux Outliner Note software

« on: October 16, 2009, 11:06 AM »

@Carrotnote: any updates on where things stand? Are you still interested in writing such a notetaker? Thanks!

-urlwolf (October 15, 2009, 07:11 AM)

Hi!
Yes we are still interested in creating the software. We are currently in the planning stage- our technical-guy is writing the planning document and we will review it in the next couple of days and hopefully begin coding.  We have not yet made commitments to lang/libraries, but this will be done very shortly. 

Is anyone here interested in contributing either code, money or some other type of contribution?  Cheering for our little project would also be welcomed!  But more helpful would be contributions and suggestions by talented coders.  I will make another posting as soon as we have made some decisions.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Suggestions for development of cross-platform Linux Outliner Note software

« on: October 10, 2009, 08:59 PM »

Hello
Thank you for all the interesting suggestions and ideas!  We really appreciate that!
Soon we will be looking for Linux coders to help with certain parts of development and we encourage any interested people to contact us!

It promises to be a fascinating project!

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Suggestions for development of cross-platform Linux Outliner Note software

« on: September 12, 2009, 11:08 AM »

Hello!
Thanks to everyone for your comments. Our group will meet soon to discuss some of them

I have read many glowing reports about Grandview or PCoutline.  Is there a way to still run this software so I can test it? I had trouble learning much about it.  Reading how it works is not the same as trying it. 

What did these early applications offer that EccoPro does not offer?  Or, better yet, what did they offer that InfoQube does not offer?

We are not going to try to compete with Evernote.  That's impossible. Personally, I greatly dislike 'cloud' software and the idea of putting my data on someone else's server.  There appear to be many smaller developers out there apparently satisfied with their smallish base of customers.

We are mainly interested in making something for Linux that will also operate on other operating systems.  And it will be open source -- a drawing point that tends to attract quite a bit of support.  Unlike the big players, we're not in it for the money.

I'll greatly look forward to all suggestions and comments!

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Suggestions for development of cross-platform Linux Outliner Note software

« on: September 07, 2009, 01:38 AM »

Thanks everyone for your replies and suggestions.

Our idea is to make the application as open source as possible, in order to attract the trust and confidence of users. 

Do you believe there is a "huge opportunity"?

Our technical team (which I am not part of will carefully examine OneNote.  I used it intensively several years ago and liked it very much prior to my switch to Linux. 

I am very impressed with InfoQube as well. (despite finding it quite difficult to learn)  Do you think it would be better to go with:

- a more simple OneNote style application (I assume the way it stores data makes it accessible to the user is simpler than the InfoQube/ ECCO model,

- an Surfulator/ InfoQube/ ECCO  model in which information items are database objects and can be organized both on a hierarchical tree and independently through tags. Users have a lot of flexibility regarding structuring their information.

Again, all suggestions will be appreciated.  We don't really have a very strong commercial/ profit motive in making this software- we want to make a full featured open-source note-taker for Linux (as our main goal but also cross-platform)  just don't want to go broke doing it. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software

« on: September 06, 2009, 12:50 PM »

Hi

I don't want to cross-post- but I posted a question here https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=19817.0
asking advice regarding the development of a cross-platform note-taking application.   

I will survey the discussions in this discussion forum.  But we would also appreciate advice on designing its architecture and suggestions for features.

I look forward to suggestions and advice!

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Suggestions for development of cross-platform Linux Outliner Note software

« on: September 05, 2009, 11:18 PM »

Hi
We are a group of developers interested in producing feature-rich cross-platform, portable note-taking application.

Out initial idea is that it would include many of the features of applications like MyBase, Surfulator but perhaps allow the flexible positioning of notes on a page like in BasketNotes or OneNote.

In addition to having standard note-taking functions (assigning notes in a tree-like structure) that is being able to capture entire or partial selections of web pages, and have the ability to add notes about the webclippings. 

We envisage that the base version of the software will be open-source and free.  A paid pro version will help pay for the high cost of developing the program. (Unless anyone can come up with a great idea to help us make money with it and make it completely open-source

Suggestions on the following would be very much appreciated:

- recommendations for solid, flexible architecture that would be 'future-proof' (as far as possible)
- features you would like to see
- features you hope that we will AVOID
- practical considerations regarding building a robust application.

Thanks for any and all advice!