Aquaminds Notetaker

Posted by MadaboutDana
Jan 21, 2019 at 09:35 AM

Yes, the ongoing hiatus in further development of Hog Bay apps, and the peculiar decision to stop developing for iOS (regardless of the open-sourcing of TaskPaper’s iOS code) have put a bit of a crimp in what appeared to be a very successful development arc. I still mourn the demise of FoldingText, which Jesse promoted as the Next Big Thing for quite a while before suddenly switching back to TaskPaper.

Circus Ponies I never really took to - some beautiful ideas, not always especially well executed (lot of crashing, sudden reversal of structural changes etc.). But then they were one of the first really ambitious apps to appear.

Ah well, life isn’t easy for independents, as we all know. Which reminds me: the solution I’d always promote over Aquaminds Notetaker is Notebooks, the updated macOS version of which is imminently due to appear… (also one of the very first ambitious iOS apps, and a solid competitor to most other data managers, not least because of its ability to handle vast numbers of documents very efficiently; oh, and a dual-window display even on older iPads, which is pretty much unique).

Cheers!
Bill

Jeffery Smith wrote:
I guess that “neglectware” is relative. I thought that Circus Ponies
>was doing well for its genre, but went out in a most alarming fashion.
>Midnight Inbox (GTD app) has promised a new update for about 10 years,
>yet it seems to be forever delayed. And Hog Bay’s simple apps seem to
>always be “in progress” but with no major features released either. The
>only issue I had with Notetaker was that, for a while during version 3,
>it seemed very prone to crashing. As a result, I moved away from it but
>always wished that a stable version would be released.