Top Developments in 2007

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Dec 28, 2007 at 10:47 AM

Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
>I was hoping someone would mention SQLNotes (http://www.sqlnotes.net) as
>one of the top development in outlining software in 2007…

Actually, you have been rather too quick to disapoint yourself ;-) Or maybe I’ve been slow to post—as well as going out on the UR tangent.

I intended to write about SQL Notes as a sort of ‘hope for the future’. I think it will take a while before most of us appreciate it, as it’s a rather strange beast.

SQL Notes is a hybrid one-pane outliner (a writing tool) and database (an information repository). Just like Connected Text—a wiki which also provides visual navigation- it takes time to conceptualise it and find how it would fit in one’s workflow.

In any case, apart for the solid infrastructure which I have praised elsewhere, SQL Notes is blessed with the closest relationship I’ve personally witnessed between developer and (potential) public outside of the open-source world. This is a good thing but, as most of us know, you can have too much of a good thing.

So, all the best for SQL Notes in 2008

Cheers, alx