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Posted by satis
Dec 6, 2021 at 04:40 AM

Over the summer Jesse announced a free download of a bugfix version of the app and was surprisingly bullish on the apps resuscitation. (This after palming it off to Mutahhir in 2018 whereupon development stalled and he took back ownership.)

I just noticed that Jesse edited his post a couple of weeks ago to note that he sold the app again to another dev (no name, no intro from the new dev, no news on the app’s future), and expressed relief that it “Gets me a little closer time wise to public start of my next app.”

https://support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/foldingtext-3-project-preservation/4632

So, I guess one could try to be hopeful about FoldingText, but after passing it around, then taking it back and and doing nothing to it for years, only to be sold to an unknown dev with no follow-up to users or potential users, does not augur well.

And given how little has been done with TaskPaper over the years (which I own) I’m not exactly counting the days until Jesse’s “next app” is released.

Posted by Prion
Dec 6, 2021 at 07:40 AM

Unfortunately a recurring theme.

I, too, have licences for pretty much all of the apps that this particular developer has published many of which are dead in the water now. I’d still say that for someone who loves tinkering with tools in the information management space the scale tips towards the “it’s worth it” side but only just. If you are looking for a long term solution and stability my recommendation would be to look elsewhere perhaps.

Posted by MadaboutDana
Dec 6, 2021 at 10:29 AM

He’s a gifted guy, but very frustrating. The latest version of TaskPaper was amazing (AND a very good outliner, what’s more!), but no iOS version, no roadmap… grrrr.

Prion wrote:
Unfortunately a recurring theme.
> >I, too, have licences for pretty much all of the apps that this
>particular developer has published many of which are dead in the water
>now. I’d still say that for someone who loves tinkering with tools in
>the information management space the scale tips towards the “it’s worth
>it” side but only just. If you are looking for a long term solution and
>stability my recommendation would be to look elsewhere perhaps.

Posted by steveylang
Dec 6, 2021 at 09:32 PM

I was coincidentally re-visiting FoldingText the other day and discovered that the ‘support.foldingtext.com.com’ URL now points to this page:

https://support.doubledogsoftware.com

So I guess at least we know who’s taken over…

satis wrote:
Over the summer Jesse announced a free download of a bugfix version of
>the app and was surprisingly bullish on the apps resuscitation. (This
>after palming it off to Mutahhir in 2018 whereupon development stalled
>and he took back ownership.)
> >I just noticed that Jesse edited his post a couple of weeks ago to note
>that he sold the app again to another dev (no name, no intro from the
>new dev, no news on the app’s future), and expressed relief that it
>“Gets me a little closer time wise to public start of my next app.”
> >https://support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/foldingtext-3-project-preservation/4632
> >So, I guess one could try to be hopeful about FoldingText, but after
>passing it around, then taking it back and and doing nothing to it for
>years, only to be sold to an unknown dev with no follow-up to users or
>potential users, does not augur well.
> >And given how little has been done with TaskPaper over the years (which
>I own) I’m not exactly counting the days until Jesse’s “next app” is
>released.

Posted by rafael costacurta
Dec 7, 2021 at 04:57 PM

TaskPaper for iOS was released a long time ago, but has had a very short life…

I know it doesn’t lessen the frustration, but Obsidian, wiht the propers plugins does a very goog jog in replacing FoldingText

MadaboutDana wrote:
He’s a gifted guy, but very frustrating. The latest version of TaskPaper
>was amazing (AND a very good outliner, what’s more!), but no iOS
>version, no roadmap… grrrr.
> >Prion wrote:
>Unfortunately a recurring theme.
>>
>>I, too, have licences for pretty much all of the apps that this
>>particular developer has published many of which are dead in the water
>>now. I’d still say that for someone who loves tinkering with tools in
>>the information management space the scale tips towards the “it’s worth
>>it” side but only just. If you are looking for a long term solution and
>>stability my recommendation would be to look elsewhere perhaps.

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