Folding Text 2.1 out -- now abandoned by Hog Bay

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Oct 13, 2015 at 06:52 PM

Wow, this is so typical of Jesse Grosjean of Hog Bay Software.

If you are a Folding Text user, you probably got the e-mail announcement about version 2.1. Though it has been a while (maybe two years) since the last update, it was encouraging to see continued development (as was promised in the initial release). Then you get to the last paragraph of the e-mail announcement:

“Going forward Mutahhir Ali, who also worked with me to create FoldingText, will maintain FoldingText. Mutahhir will focus on bug fixes and keeping FoldingText working into the future.”

In other words, Hog Bay is washing its hands of the app, and the best we who have invested in the app can expect are bug fixes and OS adjustments. Okay, so that’s better than nothing. But when Folding Text was released, Jesse touted it as his replacement for TaskPaper, which was his replacement for Mori, as he searched for the perfect app. I’ve said it before, Jesse is a gifted developer, but buyer beware. He takes his apps to a certain point then apparently loses interest and moves on to his next genius idea.

The promise with FT was that there would be a lot of modes added to make it even more flexible and useful. That promise has not been fulfilled. FT works fine, but it continues to have rough edges and feels like an incomplete project to me. I’d welcome contrary views.

Steve Z.