Surfulater (cont'd fr Evernote 4)

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Nov 18, 2010 at 03:46 AM

Neville,

Wow! In terms of future development that will enhance Surfulater, and keep it competitive in a good way it looks like you’ve got the bases covered. I’m impressed!

Thanks for laying out your priority areas and how they relate.

Daly

Neville Franks wrote:
>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.)