TDEV  Six months later I re-downloaded this app to see how things have progressed.

The price has fallen significantly.

There is still no search of any kind.

It is designed by people who seem to have never used a Mac in their lives.

There are no standard keyboard shortcuts.

There are no keyboard shortcuts of any kind.

They don’t seem to understand what every other Mac application in the known universe does with the Preferences.

They have not figured out what the escape key is for

They have lovely mysterious commands in the menus that do nothing: More Lines or Less Lines anyone?

They have a bug ugly implementation of Full Screen.

Obviously the makers of this app have spent no time researching basic Mac formats and commands. They’ve certainly never researched the competition who make better apps for less cost.  
(Version 1.1.0)

MATHEW  I'm not sure the developer's comments really hold water. The comments seem way over the top. Yes, IF the software lasts 10 years, then $6 a year is a great price. But why would anyone trust that a brand new app would actually last 2 years, much less 10? This is, apparently, a brand new company without any identifying info at their website about the developers and without any track record. Thus "trust me" doesn't hold water at this point.

I hope the app grows and does well. I'm not really commenting on the app itself (though it seems kind of clunky right now), but much more towards the argument regarding pricing the developer was trying to make. Put in another perspective, if OmniGroup did the same thing, then I'd buy right away! But that's because OmniGroup has a track record of excellence, and thus I'd have concrete reasons to believe they could and would deliver on their promise.   
(Version 1.0.1)

TDEV  Poor support for standard keyboard shortcuts - none listed at all in the non-standard menus and while apple-n will get a new notepad, apple-w does nothing, apple-f gets you to full screen not find...

oh, that’s because there’s no Find. So, if you have an idea, you better remember it because there’s no way to search in this app.

Non standard close dialogues - transparency wow! - makes you wonder if these folks have spent any time on a Mac.

But you know, lined paper! For $13 LESS you can buy CircusPonies Notebook and that has lined paper too... and searches as well as a whole lot more.  
(Version 1.0)

ZO219  Got a lot more price-slashing to do before this thing is even viable.  
(Version 1.1.5)

EASER  Ouch! $62? I'll use pen and paper, thanks.  
(Version 1.0)

PLASTERPYRUS  Even 38.00 dollars is to much for this application. There are so many applications of this kind out there that so many of us that already have something similar in our toolbox are not going to pay this much for another one of these! I think developers need to know that many of us out here would like to keep supporting them through these hard times, but if they don't realize things are tough and lower their prices, then it will become tougher to support them.  
(Version 1.0.6)

ZENTASK  Using Writeroom for writing and pen&paper for sketching ideas. 62 USD, no way.  
(Version 1.0.1)

SCOTTGSMITH62  Overall: Grossly over-priced for what it does, which is nothing more than a dressed up notepad, and it is VERY bug ridden (more like an Alpha release candidate instead of a production version).

The Good: It looks nice

The Bad:

- The price borders on the ridiculous for what this thing does. A person with Windows Notepad could do the same thing (except the pretty backgrounds).

- The hotkeys for performing menu actions do not work. I have two PC's on my desk and have installed it on both, but with the same outcome - using the hotkeys does NOTHING

- After using the menu option to fit more lines on the page, I decided to decrease the lines on the page after I had typed some data, but the menu item did not even work then. Restarting the program did not help.

Recommendations to developer:

1. Stop using the general public as your testers - this really pisses people off, and wastes time that is short in supply anyway. When it gets to me as a user, it should be without bugs and things should just work the way they are supposed to.

2. To make this an attractive application, really go with the notebook metaphor, and instead of having a scroll bar, when the user gets to the end of the page, have it flip over to a second page like a real notebook. Otherwise, what is the real difference between this application and MS Notepad, other than screen decoration? Before you do this however, download one of the applications for the Mac, like NoteBook or Omni Outliner, and see how it supposed to be done and what works.  
(Version 1.4.4)

SARAHW  I stumbled across this page while looking for other software and I found some of the reviews really odd. I have been using this software for quite a while now and I love it!

I admit it took me a while to figure out the projects window but now that I have a single click takes me to my shopping lists, my Christmas lists and I just love dropping notes in different colors. I take photos of things I think should be on each list and drop those in too. It's fun to use.

I don't use the twitter stuff myself. I don't get the point of twitter at all but I've just upgraded to 1.3.4 and it added putting notes behind the pad. What's the point of that I thought. Then my boyfriend came in and I was doing christmas lists (I know, how early am I!) and I pushed some notes behind the pad and he came and read my list for my family and commented on it. Not sure if that is what it's meant for bur it sure worked for me!

I would recommend my friends to try this out and see if it works for them. A fun app for a serious task.  
(Version 1.3.4)

LORD LIGHTNING  10 years! So bring back WordPerfect.  
(Version 1.0.6)