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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jan 5, 2016 at 12:13 PM
Highly unprofessional indeed.
I would be sorry to see it go, except that CPN appears to have little regard for their customers. So good riddance.
Steve Z.
Posted by Slartibartfarst
Jan 5, 2016 at 02:36 PM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Highly unprofessional indeed.
>I would be sorry to see it go, except that CPN appears to have little
>regard for their customers. So good riddance.
>>Steve Z.
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Oh I don’t know. I’d give them the benefit of the doubt.
It looks to me as though the last person to turn out the lights at circusponies.com might have felt pretty bitterly about whatever had transpired, and hence the emotional parting shots in the face of a seemingly unfair and cruel fate. Who knows what might have been going on there, before the closure? I know what it feels like when one puts one’s all into something that subsequently gets canned for reasons unrelated to one’s own good efforts.
One often has no control over such situations. The canning of the UK’s TSR-2 was an example of that sort of thing.
I’d never heard of Circus Ponies™ NoteBook™ before now - but that’s because it’s apparently a Mac-only app. and I haven’t used Macs for years.
I looked over their website on the Wayback Machine, and it looks to be a pretty useful NoteBook/PIM, though possibly in a bit of a kludgy and archaic (under-developed) form. As a reluctant convert to OneNote, I can’t see much similarty between the two things though, as was suggested.in the posts.
It seems a shame when an apparently good product with good potential is killed off for whatever reason.
If they had diversified and developed it to run on Windows, there might have been a quite different outcome. I wonder why that path was not taken? For developers, the Mac OS is a relatively limited market compared to the ubiquitous nature of the Windows OSes.
Hopefully we may yet see the NoteBook rise from the ashes, albeit in another form.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jan 5, 2016 at 02:59 PM
Slarti,
Notebook was a forked product, I believe, when the developer split with a partner, who went on to develop a very similar app called Notetaker:
Notetaker did get something of a Windows version, which I tried and thought was very, very lightweight compared with the Mac version.
Anyway, Notetaker is at least still in business—though development is super slow, if not suspended.
Steve Z.
Posted by Slartibartfarst
Jan 5, 2016 at 04:45 PM
Thanks Steve Z.
Posted by steveylang
Jan 5, 2016 at 06:25 PM
I absolutely loved the idea of the app, and bought my first Mac partly because of it.
The reality was a bit different and a little kludgey for me. Nowadays I like plain text files much more.
I guess it ended up feeling like the difference between making one of those fancy photo scrapbooks, vs. using something like Google Photos (utlitarian but effective.)