Surfulater (cont'd fr Evernote 4)

Posted by Neville Franks
Nov 17, 2010 at 10:30 PM

Daly/all,
At present there are three+ big areas which need to be worked on in Surfulater:
1) Complete the migration of all data to a single unified database system.
2) Resolve Unicode issues.
3) Sync / cloud use.
4) Cross platform.

There is some degree of overlap here in that the new database system and its supporting software stack may resolve item 2 and make possible item 3. Further it may lend itself to item 4.

We software developers have always “lived in interesting times” and it seems to me that the technology and software we have available today empowers us to produce and deliver applications which just a few years back were very, very difficult to achieve. In fact if I were to start developing Surfulater today the underlying software and its implementation would be nothing like we have in Surfulater now.

I am currently spending time evaluating some new database systems and new ways to develop applications like Surfulater and am excited by the prospects. The learning curve is steep and I don’t as yet know where these new ways are up to the task or not. That said I am very much hoping they are.

In my personal use of Surfulater, automated (cloud) synchronization would be of great benefit and something I am very keen and highly motivated to deliver. Cloud use ties in with the research I am currently doing.

I also agree with dan7000’s comments about the need for quicker and simpler ways of adding information and intend working on this. Applications should be as invisible as possible and not interrupt your work flow. The user should be able to enter as much or as little additional information as they want. For Surfulater’s Web Browser content capture we’ll see a new simple UI in the Browser, with no need to access Surfulater itself.

-Neville

(Chris can this textarea be made higher please.)