KISS
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 2:37 pm
I think this is a topic that has been aired before but I raise it again in the light of the new version 2.0 which is soon to be available.
As a registered user I have been happy to support the developer by paying for what I use. CN is a very satisfactory tool for keeping small amounts of text information but I am fearful that it will start to stray from that focus to a more fully formed database type of program (I already use one called mybase).
What I am thinking is that the elegant simplicity of CN should not be lost with the introduction of very useful but more complex features that are being proposed by voters on the Roadmap.
Do people know the saying? - a Camel is a Horse designed by a committee!
Perhaps there should be TWO versions - the FIRST -an absolutely bombproof text only version (even without formatting) that is very well intregrated with Simplenote/Dropbox etc for textual information and links, many of which are needed everyday, or to form a depository for texts etc. Some people use it as a GTD system and I use it, among other things as a program launcher and journal. Discussion has taken place about its use as a log with date and time stamps. Others wish to use it as a commonplace book. The development that I would be happy to pay for might include password protection and encryption, and to ensure absolute data protection for ever with no redundancy, multiple forms of import and export.
Version TWO would be more "singing and dancing" - it will then compete with lots of similar programs and might loose the distinctiveness of CN as it is now.
Perhaps these two version can run side by side in different tabs....but please..... KISS.
I will carry on paying for the development of a simple but bombproof note taker and note manipulating program that will last me for years to come!
What do others think?
As a registered user I have been happy to support the developer by paying for what I use. CN is a very satisfactory tool for keeping small amounts of text information but I am fearful that it will start to stray from that focus to a more fully formed database type of program (I already use one called mybase).
What I am thinking is that the elegant simplicity of CN should not be lost with the introduction of very useful but more complex features that are being proposed by voters on the Roadmap.
Do people know the saying? - a Camel is a Horse designed by a committee!
Perhaps there should be TWO versions - the FIRST -an absolutely bombproof text only version (even without formatting) that is very well intregrated with Simplenote/Dropbox etc for textual information and links, many of which are needed everyday, or to form a depository for texts etc. Some people use it as a GTD system and I use it, among other things as a program launcher and journal. Discussion has taken place about its use as a log with date and time stamps. Others wish to use it as a commonplace book. The development that I would be happy to pay for might include password protection and encryption, and to ensure absolute data protection for ever with no redundancy, multiple forms of import and export.
Version TWO would be more "singing and dancing" - it will then compete with lots of similar programs and might loose the distinctiveness of CN as it is now.
Perhaps these two version can run side by side in different tabs....but please..... KISS.
I will carry on paying for the development of a simple but bombproof note taker and note manipulating program that will last me for years to come!
What do others think?