Andy Brice

Austhink - switch and bait. 3/1/2016

Frederick Wahl >until they switched to a subscription based model. From a vendor's point of view a subscription model is very attractive. It smooths out your income and makes it much more predictabl...

Circus Ponies suddenly ceased business 2/23/2016

Bob Spies wrote: I've sometimes thought of writing my own just so I wouldn't have to >worry about it going away! You would have to keep updating it just to keep it working on that latest OS. Especi...

Circus Ponies suddenly ceased business 2/22/2016

Given their mortality rate, remind me never to write an outliner product...

Circus Ponies suddenly ceased business 2/21/2016

steveylang wrote: That's why my preference is now apps that use text files, or as close as >possible. '.TXT' will never go out of style! I agree. Structured text formats, especially standard-based on...

Circus Ponies suddenly ceased business 2/20/2016

They do seem a bit bitter and rather unprofessional. Of the 3 products that I have released in the last 11 years, one flopped and I released it for free ( nothing to do with productivity software: ht...

PC OUTLINE 2/9/2016

Software is ephemeral. I hope somebody is still using the software I wrote in 30 years time! Some environmental modelling software I helped to write back in the 90s still seems to be going ( https://w...

Fetchnotes shuts down 2/8/2016

Ken wrote: >And if VC funds did not exist, I >think that startups might have to rely on a different model of growth >that might be a bit more customer-friendly, Indeed. However sustainable long-te...

Fetchnotes shuts down 2/7/2016

> It does make me wonder how many folks set out with this end goal in mind Almost none. I know lots of people who started software product companies. They usually divide into: 'startup' - Take VC an...

Fetchnotes shuts down 2/4/2016

>I continue to be convinced: DO NOT KEEP YOUR DATA IN A THIRD-PARTY >SERVICE. DO NOT KEEP YOUR DATA IN A CLOSED FORMAT. Amen to that!

Card-based productivity software 2/2/2016

I understood (from reading Jeff Atwood's blog) that there was no overall standard for markdown. Is that still the case? Or are the various implementations 'close enough' to each other?

Card-based productivity software 2/2/2016

Stephen Zeoli wrote: >Bill, that is such an excellent observation. I agree completely. >Extensive and easy to organize notes are essential for effective task >and project management. They shouldn't b...

Card-based productivity software 2/2/2016

MadaboutDana wrote: >Of course HyperPlan does do this, to an extent. But there are fairly >significant constraints. IMHO, it might be better to allow users to >specify their own categories (I agree, ...

Card-based productivity software 2/2/2016

Slartibartfarst wrote: >I wasn't sure whether you would have seen it before. Evidently you >hadn't. One of my customers mentioned it yesterday. I hadn't heard of it before that. It is probably the ...

Card-based productivity software 2/2/2016

Franz Grieser wrote: >So: A free placement mode in Hyper Plan would justify getting the app. >And maybe use it for more :-) I can't promise that is going to make it into the v2.0 release. >Could ...

Card-based productivity software 2/2/2016

Slartibartfarst wrote: >Thankyou for posting about your software HyperPlan. Not having come >across it before, I took a look at your website and the short video. >Very interesting and a rather novel...

Card-based productivity software 2/2/2016

faustisch wrote: >there is only so much venture capital / media attention for too many >simple yet powerful yet beautiful applications. True. It is a shame that the VCs and media have brainwashed so ...

Card-based productivity software 2/2/2016

@Stephen Zeoli A lot of productivity software seems to have a relatively short lifespan, judging by all the dead products I see mentioned on this forum,

Card-based productivity software 2/1/2016

@Daly de Gagne >I use NoteZilla because it's so much more than a sticky notes program. > >I once used ndxCards, and thought it had a great future. Unfortunately >it has not been developed for several...

Card-based productivity software 2/1/2016

@Wojciech Trying to match the ease of use and intuitiveness of physical post-it notes is certainly a challenge. But I think software really comes into its own where: -you have lots of cards (no limi...

Card-based productivity software 2/1/2016

@Hugh I agree that it is pretty much impossible to have one system to cover everything and be usable. I put short term/transitory stuff on scraps of paper, longer term stuff in Hyper Plan and appoint...

Card-based productivity software 2/1/2016

@Ken Trello is quite simplistic: a list of lists. This works great for some things, not so well for others. However I think they have done a good job at implementing what it does. I know what you me...

Card-based productivity software 2/1/2016

I'm busy working on v2.0 of my Hyper Plan software and I wondered what the view was here on a card-based approach to productivity/planning. Do you use card-based software such as Trello or any of the...

Productivity tools get a mention on the BBC 10/29/2015

I prefer pen and paper for some things. "Horses for courses"

Productivity tools get a mention on the BBC 10/21/2015

"Are productivity apps more hype than help?" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34506590

Folding Text 2.1 out -- now abandoned by Hog Bay 10/19/2015

Prion wrote: >https://hacked.com/interview-writeroom/ I think the key text is: "[Folding Text] also quite geeky and not easy to sell. Much easier to sell simpler more focused apps like WriteRoom a...

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