Andy Brice
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Card-based productivity software
2/2/2016
MadaboutDana wrote:
>Of course HyperPlan does do this, to an extent. But there are fairly
>significant constraints. IMHO, it might be better to allow users to
>specify their own categories (I agree, ...
Card-based productivity software
2/2/2016
Slartibartfarst wrote:
>I wasn't sure whether you would have seen it before. Evidently you
>hadn't.
One of my customers mentioned it yesterday. I hadn't heard of it before that. It is probably the ...
Card-based productivity software
2/2/2016
Franz Grieser wrote:
>So: A free placement mode in Hyper Plan would justify getting the app.
>And maybe use it for more :-)
I can't promise that is going to make it into the v2.0 release.
>Could ...
Card-based productivity software
2/2/2016
Slartibartfarst wrote:
>Thankyou for posting about your software HyperPlan. Not having come
>across it before, I took a look at your website and the short video.
>Very interesting and a rather novel...
Card-based productivity software
2/2/2016
faustisch wrote:
>there is only so much venture capital / media attention for too many
>simple yet powerful yet beautiful applications.
True. It is a shame that the VCs and media have brainwashed so ...
Card-based productivity software
2/2/2016
@Stephen Zeoli
A lot of productivity software seems to have a relatively short lifespan, judging by all the dead products I see mentioned on this forum,
Card-based productivity software
2/1/2016
@Daly de Gagne
>I use NoteZilla because it's so much more than a sticky notes program.
>
>I once used ndxCards, and thought it had a great future. Unfortunately
>it has not been developed for several...
Card-based productivity software
2/1/2016
@Wojciech
Trying to match the ease of use and intuitiveness of physical post-it notes is certainly a challenge. But I think software really comes into its own where:
-you have lots of cards (no limi...
Card-based productivity software
2/1/2016
@Hugh
I agree that it is pretty much impossible to have one system to cover everything and be usable. I put short term/transitory stuff on scraps of paper, longer term stuff in Hyper Plan and appoint...
Card-based productivity software
2/1/2016
@Ken
Trello is quite simplistic: a list of lists. This works great for some things, not so well for others. However I think they have done a good job at implementing what it does.
I know what you me...
Card-based productivity software
2/1/2016
I'm busy working on v2.0 of my Hyper Plan software and I wondered what the view was here on a card-based approach to productivity/planning.
Do you use card-based software such as Trello or any of the...
Productivity tools get a mention on the BBC
10/29/2015
I prefer pen and paper for some things.
"Horses for courses"
Productivity tools get a mention on the BBC
10/21/2015
"Are productivity apps more hype than help?"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34506590
Prion wrote:
>https://hacked.com/interview-writeroom/
I think the key text is:
"[Folding Text] also quite geeky and not easy to sell. Much easier to sell simpler more focused apps like WriteRoom a...
Hugh wrote:
>A promise of something that
>will make your life as a user slightly easier or more fun at some point
>in the future? If we as consumers tend to think in those ways, are we
>foolish?
Not ...
MadaboutDana wrote:
>I think you've pinpointed the difference, Andy. Making promises and then
>losing interest in your own product is especially galling.
I don't know anything about this specific cas...
Perhaps, as an Indie software product developer I can give a slightly different perspective.
I have released 3 software products in the last 10.5 years.
http://www.perfecttableplan.com/
Still going...
Kumu
10/7/2015
Nice looking graphics. I wonder how much you have to massage your spreadsheet before it it can be imported as a map?
Evernote reinvents itself again
10/1/2015
zoe wrote:
>I'm guessing that in 5-10 years, Evernote will turn into an B-school
>example of how to run a promising company right into the ground.
Or an example of how you can't make up in volume wha...
Evernote reinvents itself again
10/1/2015
Paul Korm wrote:
>Either losing money or their next VC round wants better margins or both.
Have they ever been profitable?
It is hard to make money from "freemium" services - too many non-paying use...
Our visual planning software for Windows and Mac is on sale ($20 instead of $40) on the 17th and 18th September:
http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/hyper-plan
I hope it is ok to post this here (I pro...
zoe wrote:
It must be very tough out there for smaller companies to market their
>products/systems to the diverse landscape of large & small companies,
>individual freelancers, and academic/nonprofi...
>It’s easy to understand why developers favor subscription revenue models, and why they favor online apps. But I don’t like online apps.
There are plusses and minuses to desktop/pay once ...
Evernote is watching
8/3/2015
As a vendor I can confirm that, yes, we do have access to a lot of information on website visitors (your IP address, what website you came from, what pages you looked at, how long you spent on each pa...
Hyper Plan
7/28/2015
MadaboutDana wrote:
>It will not unduly surprise anybody that I, moi, the Arch-CRIMPer (pace
>George), am already a HyperPlan user.
It might have been traffic from a link you posted that I followed b...