CardDesk Is Dangerous

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Feb 24, 2015 at 02:38 PM

Just made my morning email check. I got an automated reply from TuskTools, with a link for me to confirm my interest in the product. I clicked, and now I wait for a human response.

Daly

Daly de Gagne wrote:
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
>>