Paul Korm wrote:

For 2015, I'm pleased with how Curio and iThoughts (all platforms)
continue to mature and I anticipate continuing evolution of new features
for them.

I think Ulysses has plateaued -- in a graceful way. It'll continue to
be a workhorse even with no major new changes -- I'll be glad to be
wrong, but it seems The SoulMen are mainly producing tweaks, now.

New discoveries such as MarginNote and Quiver have been delightful,
niche tools.

I usually divorce OmniFocus a couple times a year, and did so again in
2015. We're re-engaged now, as ever, because I just never find a good
all-round non-cloud alternative that I trust.f

The AppleWatch I bought is fun, but clearly a "never again" moment. The
latest iterations of iPhones and iPads seem to offer few real-world
benefits -- the Apple fan-bloggers are bending over backwards to flog
the new products -- it's a bit embarrassing to read some of the claims
for 3D Touch, e.g., I think Apple maybe has run out of paradigms to
shift. But, it must be nice to reach a plateau as the richest corporate
in the world.

Disappointments include NovaMind which began 2015 promising major
features on all platforms then went into radio silence after collecting
upgrade fees for these features, and never delivering them. NovaMind
cloud is a standalone project that has little value as a result, and
NovaMind iPad is still vaporware. I'm sure I'll continue to be a
sucker for pre-paying enthusiastic developers for features that never
appear (MailMate 2 -- now about 2 years past due; Butler -- now defunct,
etc.) because I like indie developers.

For 2016 I'm looking forward to DEVONthink 3 (cool advances there),
Scrivener iPad (I hope I hope), TheBrain 9 (looking good in alpha
testing). There's no danger of loss-of-CRIMP.

Happy new year, all!

Pretty much my thoughts too (without any inside knowledge of DT3, but with the hope that it's useful enough to entice me back from the Finder/file system, and with a loss on NovaMind that leaves iThoughts and MindNode more appealing - the only slight consolation being that as far as I can remember my upgrade fee should last till 2017 or 2018, by which time NM should have decisively either delivered or deceased).

Happy crimping to all in 2016.