This is a very nice app for small note-taking, much less heavy in RAM than DevonThink or Evernote. I rely on the latter for serious document copying and indexing, but for everyday notes you can then discard easily, Shovebox is the best app i have tested.
Three regrets (by descending order of importance):
The proprietary format of the database means entries don't show up in Spotlight and you can actually "lose" data by forgetting it was in SB.
The weird "update" behavior (I had to figure out where to locate my "old" database before deleting it myself -- otherwise the updated software could not read the new database.
The lack of export format options.

Great app. Just one regret: the lack of an "add new contact" button.

Great app, a must. But for some reason, it doesn't show if you search for it in the MacUpdate search box. I found this page because i had saved it on Evernote.

This is a very tempting and sylish app. As a French professional writer and literary translator, i would definitely pay for MyWritings, adopt it for my daily needs and become and ardent supporter of it with my colleagues, if it was fully compatible with Spark's keyboard shortcuts (see below), Antidote's editing and dictionary functions and had several additional features. The following is a bit long as i tried to put things in context.

Preliminary explanations for what i lack with the current version of Mywritings:
- As a professional Mac user, i do most things via the keyboard, to save time and my carpal tunnel, so i use Spark to create kb shortcuts.
- In my job, I very often have to edit texts, and look for words/synonyms, which i do via the correction and editing software Antidote.

I found my Spark shortcut for « launch Antidote, paste word from scrapbook (in Antidote’s dictionary seach field) and hit enter (to make Antidote look for the word) » doesn’t work within MyWritings.
Also, contrary to what happens with most other apps, in Mywritings, the Services Menu for Antidote is only available through a mouse click => keyboard-shortcut-unscriptable via Spark, which kills this alternative solution for Antidote word lookup via a Spark shortcut.)

=> The features requests:

1. Ccompatibility with Spark so as to perform complex « text » shortcuts. Mywritings currently allows only simple Spark « application » shortcuts to Antidote, to launch the app for instance, but not complex time-saving « text shortcuts ». [NB : Complex Spark « text shortcuts » do work from MyWritings to at least Camino (i just tested one i have for a word lookup).]

2. Direct Integration with Antidote’s « Dictionnaire » function, which would allow to go back and forth between the two apps to look for a definition or synonym and then use the « replace text » function from Antidote to MyWritings. Such Integration is fairly simple to obtain from the folks at Druide, i guess, as many word processing apps (Open Office, for instance) are integrated that way).

3. Ideally, same as 2 for the « Correcteur » function of Antidote (which would make both software fully compatible). This function allows a very wide and efficient editing of texts in French (spelling, repetitions, style, grammar corrections and even deeper meaning stats and functions) and i guess that also implies being able to change text back and forth between the two apps.

4. Realtime spelling corrections in French (as in OpenOffice for instance - may be there is some code / dictionary list to borrow there?)

5. (optional for me as i am bilingual but would be necessary for a significant number of colleagues) : French localization.

NB: Sent a message today via the app's "provide feeback" function to the app's creator with roughly the same remarks. Will let you know what he says (he is very fast in answering, from what i gathered from a previous exchange with him - to me, the presence of a "provide feedback" function is in itself a very good sign).

Despite the nice interface and apparently seamless import capabilities from ICal, there is actually (can you believe this?) one function missing from Ical in this software: the ability to have an event open a file on the computer.

This is a serious drawback as it makes it impossible to use Busycal for launching basic scripts, like a daily auto save of local files to a remote server, for instance.

Until it does that, there is no way i will use it as i still will have to use (free) Ical for those programmed events…

(Plus i second the observation about esellerate.)

UPDATE: The function is actually present but you have to open two submenus in the edit event window to access it.

UDPATE almost year later, after downloading the latest version, SC still doesn't work on my MacMini Core Duo under 10.5.8. :(

I still get the same message: "error -208. Could not copy Selfcontrol's helper binary to PriviledgedHelperTools directory".

NM