Yes Circus Ponies notebook will be missed. The switch to OO is not simple at the beginning, but it turns out OO is highly customizable (I built a template with the same colors as CPN, resembling a notebook), very stable and fast. But frankly, the sente thing is really related to their business model: program + unlimited server space for 70$, and nothing else for 5 years, that wasn’t sustainable! I just hope the two other cornerstones of my workflow, namely DTPro and Ulysses, won’t encounter problems as well. So yes, we should be wary of proprietary systems.
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Bookends’ developper built a nice export interface, and was really helpful (even providing a new build within hours) when I ran into troubles, but I discovered that Sente was doing its highlighting not in pdf kit but in some proprietary format which doesn’t export well (or at all): so the annotation and highlighted contents are kept, but the placeholders and highlights themselves are lost (unless one wants to spend hours exporting them by hand – I personnaly have 4657 refs as of today in my main (now Bookends) database). Well, time to move on / away, which, as it turns out, is not so simple. Well, the Sente team stopped responding to messages months ago, and suddenly closed their tenderapp, leaving all users to dry – there was a lively community, which provided most of the help, and the shutting down of the forum is simply unacceptable. Including one diploma thesis, one dissertation thesis, two books ( one of them a pretty good book), and lots and lots and lots of other stuff. Something with which I have made a lot of happy memories - mostly creating stuff.Īnd thank you CPN for all you allowed me to do. Who knows, it might actually lead to an overall improvement.īut damn, one of the lynchpins of my information infrastructure just died. But to look at the positive side of things(*), I’m forced to think about my infrastructure again - in an non-superficial manner. Perhaps I’ll use Omni Outliner, perhaps I’ll use another solution. But to be on the safe side, I’m going to start looking for alternatives soon (somewhat constrained by being currently swamped by work). I guess I have time until I get another mac that uses a version of OS X which CPN does not support.
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I’m going to grief for a while, but I’m also going to plan how to get my data out of the CPNs and into another program. But still surprising and devastating if it actually happens.Īnyway.
Hmm, although there were warning signs months ago - and I did get a couple of comments about its looming end ( e.g., here). The outlines, the notebook metaphor, so many great ideas.
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The software was a joy to use and a great way to work with digital data.
One of the best programs for the Mac just died. A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
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