CardDesk Is Dangerous

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Feb 24, 2015 at 02:30 PM

WSP, I’m glad you didn’t experience the problems I did. I was - and am - quite prepared to like CardDesk.

FYI, I again experienced the problem, with CardDesk being unable to list all items matching my search. It again showed the error message - message 500 - and the message kept appearing until I logged out.

Logging in this time, I did not lose the desk top I had set up. That was saved. Unfortunately, the items I had dragged on to the desktop were not saved.

Again I looked, in vain, for a help or contact link.

I’d be interested in a program with similar capabilities to CardDesk.

From CardDesk I could open the web version of Evernote. I attempted to work with it, but its’s very frustrating. From my perspective it’s probably one of the worst designed of web apps, with lots of waste space, especially in the note listings. That waste space translates into wasted time because it takes longer to scroll through the listings. The design whiz kids at Evernote seem to find it neat to use a lot of low contrast type on the web site, and that makes it harder to read. Ironically, I found yesterday a blog post Phil Libin, EN CEO, wrote a year ago January on the process for improving EN quality - he wrote design was to be part of that process. I haven’t seen much sign of that.

Also, I checked over at Tusk Tools Treeliner for Everntote. It appears this software is still in beta, with no recent updates on its site. I have apparently deleted the information I was given some months back for reinstalling it, and seeing if I could successfully link to Evernote. Last summer when I originally downloaded Treeline I was never able to get it to link to Evernote. I contacted the developer again last night.

Daly

WSP wrote:
Daly, in my experiments with CardDesk I didn’t experience the problems
>you describe, but I do worry about the lack of progress in bringing it
>out of beta status. The developer at one time was a frequent contributor
>to the Evernote forum but more recently has been silent there for many
>months.
> >If a piece of software is abandoned by the developer, it’s often
>possible to keep it going for quite a few years, whereas a Web app like
>CardDesk could disappear overnight.
> >Bill
>