Where are the exciting developments?

Posted by Chris Thompson
Jan 22, 2009 at 01:02 AM

The Mac environment is still going strong. OmniFocus 2.0 is in development, OmniOutliner 4.0 is (finally) in development. The Hit List was just released. Circus Ponies Notebook 3.0 was just released three months ago (seriously, that’s become one impressive application!). Curio gets frequent revisions.

Journler was always more shareware than a commercial product, and it had too many good competitors for the developer to keep going with it.

If you use a broader definition of PIMs, DevonThink 2.0 is (finally) in beta, Together is getting an update every month (and is already competitive with DevonThink), Things is selling well, etc.

In terms of open source stuff, “org-mode” is undergoing extremely rapid development (about one release every two weeks). This will reward anyone who takes the time to learn it.

I think there are a lot of reasons the Windows software market for small developers has been stagnating. Maybe Windows 7 will turn that around a little. InfoQube deserves a lot of credit for persevering.

—Chris