CintaNotes

Posted by WSP
Mar 14, 2019 at 02:58 PM

I agree that CintaNotes’s glacial pace of development is frustrating, but then that’s true of some of my other software as well. These little one- or two-person operations, often in distant parts of the world (CN comes to us from Siberia, no less), can cause real annoyance by their sluggish upgrades.

I think the only way to approach these apps is to recognize their weaknesses and work around them. In the case of CintaNotes, I’m not persuaded it would be terribly useful as a full-blown note-taking program (though I suppose I could use it in that way if I absolutely had to), but for some specialized cases—such as my huge bibliographical list—that involve short notes and no illustrations, it seems to function brilliantly. (It has, for example, the best tagging and search system of any program I know.) In other words, I’ve just had to scale back my expectations and admit that no single app is going to meet all my needs.