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Posted by shatteredmindofbob
Mar 27, 2018 at 11:46 PM
Paul Korm wrote:
>Early days, but first impressions are that $45 might be too much for
>what I got.
In fairness, you can move the slider down to $15 if that’s all you feel it’s worth.
Posted by tightbeam
Mar 28, 2018 at 01:10 AM
I think it’s worth $15 for current product, $45 for future potential. There’s a lot missing, and based on what the developer wrote, I’m not convinced that he intends to provide it.
shatteredmindofbob wrote:
>
>Paul Korm wrote:
>
>>Early days, but first impressions are that $45 might be too much for
>>what I got.
>
>In fairness, you can move the slider down to $15 if that’s all you feel
>it’s worth.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 28, 2018 at 09:07 AM
Yup, that’s the one. I used to do quite a lot of work with this tool.
>Hm. The only Writer’s Cafe software I know is this:
>http://www.writerscafe.co.uk/
>And I don’t think you’re talking about that. Do you have a link to
>“your” Writer’s Cafe?
Posted by Franz Grieser
Mar 28, 2018 at 09:37 AM
MadaboutDana wrote:
>Yup, that’s the one. I used to do quite a lot of work with this tool.
>
>>Hm. The only Writer’s Cafe software I know is this:
>>http://www.writerscafe.co.uk/
>>And I don’t think you’re talking about that. Do you have a link to
>>“your” Writer’s Cafe?
It still seems to be alive.
I used Storylines for a novel some years ago, when Storylines was sold as a standalone product. I never found any use of the rest of Writer’s Café.
BTW: The programmer also wrote a e-book creation software called Jutoh that some of my colleagues swear by.
Posted by washere
Mar 28, 2018 at 01:44 PM
OK OK, who was it that said this is not Reddit? Let’s get back ON Topic. It’s was an interesting discussion, early on, in this thread:
His app has, or rather had, great initial appeal and novelty. But it seems to me that the Desktop offline version has these problems on Windows:
- Took a long time and not much changed, just debugging? Not good enough.
- Looks like a basic browser based app, even if not, looks it
- No settings to speak of
- No features to speak of as such
- No real menu options to speak of either
- No visualization or theme
- No ability to change font properties or even color etc
- No ability to change cell properties or color etc
- No ability to change the background duo-tone weird blue
- No Auto save option, timed nor even on exit
- Opens blank file, no option for last file
- Not even a functioning recent files menu/submenu
- Not to mention a host of standard features in any serious outliner or note taking app lacking here
- No prospect of an alternate standard outline view as a mode vis-a-chia current clunky boxes, which will not do in a large data model. Needs at least option to collapse all to first line & smaller height. And definable or scrollablewidth.
I don’t know what he’s been doing all this time wrt the Desktop offline ver, but it’s still as basic as it can be.
I don’t see him adding any of the above listed minimum bear necessities anytime soon. I’m not holding my breath.
I think his mode of work is stuck into a sort of limitations. Maybe he needs another coder to help.
But it’s a shame, he could have made this initial good idea into something more adequate if not substantial. And success would have followed.
Good luck to him.