Aquaminds Notetaker

Posted by Jeffery Smith
Jan 21, 2019 at 10:32 PM

Hog Bay started off with a note-keeping app, Mori, that started getting a following. Jesse then sold it to someone who bungled its maintenance, dooming it. I assume that he sorely needed the money. I never quite understood what Folding Text did.

MadaboutDana wrote:
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