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Posted by sciagent
May 28, 2014 at 08:05 AM
Thank you all for replies!
MadaboutDana, I am adding your suggestion to the list:
Hackpad, https://hackpad.com/
I suppose, Dropbox will develop it further, they need that kind of application.
Yes, i also use Evernote for many years, but just for non-professional web clipping. Probably, now I need to review its abilities.
Posted by cyberwolf
May 29, 2014 at 05:24 PM
Good discussion. I am very disappointed at the loss of Springpad. Unfortunately, I haven’t found another that really serves my needs. Keep is good, but the inability to organize into folders/notebooks ruins it for me. I’m going to give Evernote a spin again, but I remember the $5/mo. charge for offline access was what led me to Springpad in the first place.
I just took a look at Hackpad, but no Android app????
Posted by MadaboutDana
May 29, 2014 at 05:33 PM
Here’s another one for you, in fact: Quip 2.0. In terms of look and feel, I rate Quip very highly, but it’s always been a bit short of features I regard as essential, notably full-text search. Well, the new version solves that, and adds a whole bunch of other goodies.
It’s available as an app for most mobile platforms, too. You’ll find it at: https://quip.com
Posted by MadaboutDana
May 29, 2014 at 05:47 PM
... although Quip 2.0 still has one seriously irritating feature: although it produces proper, curly, writer’s quotation marks, it doesn’t do the same for apostrophes/inverted commas, which remain resolutely straight, computer-generated ones. Grrrrrr!
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
May 30, 2014 at 04:58 AM
cyberwolf wrote:
>Good discussion. I am very disappointed at the loss of Springpad.
[...]
>I’m going to give Evernote a spin again, but I remember the $5/mo. charge
>for offline access was what led me to Springpad in the first place.
I assume that you refer to offline access _in_mobile_platforms_ as this is indeed a premium feature http://evernote.com/premium/ whereas offline access in desktop platforms is available to all users. As a premium user I can tell you that this particular feature does not work as well as I would have liked, in Android at least. I don’t use it much but my understanding is that in order to have offline access to a particular item/record, you should have previously opened it while online—i.e., the full notebook is _not_ downloaded by default beforehand, only items already visited.
In respect to your disappointment, I would suggest that you prepare yourself for more in the future, in particular as you want to rely on free services. I would again suggest you read the full thread on the subject which I mentioned earlier, and in particular this post by Paul http://www.outlinersoftware.com/messages/viewm/19345 which for me was an eye-opener: everything I had seen fell in place. In brief: many cloud-based apps may have an expiry date hardcoded in their DNA. Be particularly cautious of apps which _don’t_ offer premium options or any other visible way to generate the income which will keep them alive. To have _failed_ in the market is one thing, to have taken advantage of trusting users to prove one’s worth as a developer is another.