I've been using this for a while, but something just didn't click (other than the need for type to be rasterised, rather than vector-based).

I finally figured out why Pixelmator doesn't work for me as an often-used tool: the black user interface. It is not as readable as a light grey or white background, and it is tiring to eyes after a while.

Please give us the option of black or light backgrounds on the UI. Yes, it looks "cooler" to be black but it is not comfortable for many people.

For all the whiners about the Mac App Store... It has nothing to do with Apple becoming a "monopoly". No developer is forced to distribute through the App Store. They choose to do so.

Why do they choose to do so? For the simple reason that they actually can make a living now because more people are exposed to their applications and sales increase.

They can now make a fair living through their efforts sold through the App Store, and they can spend more time on development and less on administration and paperwork.

Yet here are people sobbing because they don't get a discount on a $30 app. It's a $30 app, not $300. A developer can spend hundreds of hours delivering a new release, but at low traditional-shareware fees their efforts are reimbursed at below minimum wage.

The app store better rewards developers who provide quality products like myNotes.

Spend less at Starbucks for a couple of days and support small, independent developers.

This is one of those propositions that you so want to like, and to use, and to recommend to others. Every half year or so I give it another try, and my complaints from earlier are still there, whether bugs or implementation.

I was a beta user and the issues with text formatting were overwhelming back then. Formatting vanished, took on a life of its own, turned into rubbish. I find now that these issues with basic text formatting are still there. Mind-boggling, because they are not cutting-edge expectations, but rather those we had 20 years ago with text editing... Like retaining hard-paragraph returns, which Evernote sometimes can't manage.

And then there's proprietary file formatting. If you want to export your information, you must either do it with xml, which buggers up a lot of things when importing elsewhere, or with Evernote's proprietary file format, which few other programmes will import. We're talking about basic text here, and I can't export my text as a simple text .rtf, .doc, or even .txt file. (This is the Mac version; maybe the Windows version is different.)

Evernote's customer service retorts that one can cut and paste each item to get it out of Evernote... A delusional suggestion if one has hundreds or thousands of items.

No doubt what is essentially locking up of user data is strategic, but it is my data, not Evernote's. All of the bells and whistles, and the multi-platform brilliance of Evernote, is secondary if I don't feel in control of my data.

I was using Knox, which is fine. But Espionage is a more realistic solution and perfectly implemented. Love it.

I've been using DEVONThink for years and it is such a wonderful piece of engineering and utility. I love it. The developers work hard to keep it bug-free and current, and major updates seem to arrive just about when you begin thinking that they should arrive.

I do have some nitpick issues about the UI, and the slightly retro feel of the UI, but I can live with those because the product itself is so critical to me for project management, archiving, and keeping my shit together. In regards to value-for-money, I can't think of any other software application that I regard so well, except OSX itself.