On web aware applications and the future of Surfulater

Posted by Dr Andus
Jul 8, 2012 at 11:43 PM

I’m afraid I’m less positive about this direction than you are. I’m concerned that this rush towards cloud-based applications will impoverish the PIM world. My sense is that cloud-based apps have fewer features, look for the lowest common denominator and therefore become less sophisticated. Sure, a lot of people are working on mobile devices and need to share stuff. However, serious work still needs a serious machine and a serious software. I want specialist software that fulfils my specialist needs, rather than a watered-down cloud-based version.

If Surfulater loses it hierarchical folder structure, then it’s no longer the Surfulater that I know or want. It will just become yet another web-based clippings service, of which there are a few already. Maybe I’m too old-fashioned but labels or tags just haven’t been able to fulfil the same function for me as a hierarchical folder tree.