Supernotes' Future

Supernotes 3.2 is such a delight, filled with so many thoughtful & subtle touches. This morning on desktop, for instance, I was trying to figure out how in the world to change the sorting of a collection. The function isn’t where it used to be. Then I spotted it: right underneath the collection title. Brilliant! It couldn’t possibly be more convenient.

Multi-select is now much easier and useful with the new table layout. Little thing after little thing. So many improvements.

I use Supernotes primarily as a personal journal. I’m 72, retired and no longer a student, so the academic and scientific uses I hear about are not applicable to me. I grew bored after years with Day One and needed something more atheistically beautiful to inspire me. And Supernotes is definitely beautiful. Being my journal, my content in Supernotes is very important to me.

As Supernotes improves and I learn it better, I’m thinking about additional ways I might use it. Which brings me to the point of this little essay.

I worry about Supernotes’ longevity. I can see a time where you guys — Tobias and Connor — might decide you want to move on and do other things with your lives. You kind of acknowledged this yourselves in your blog post about lifetime subscriptions where the “lifetime” in question is the software, not the subscriber.

I recall the early days of Evernote. It was quirky, cool and exciting. The developers did wonderful podcasts. It’s since been sold to Bending Spoons, is bloated and unreasonably expensive. Just recently the Browser Company launched Arc, a very creative new approach to the web browser experience. Well, that only lasted about a year and they’ve moved on.

Hopefully you guys will hang in with Supernotes a long time. Being 72 I guess I don’t have to worry as much as someone 25. :slightly_smiling_face: But should Supernotes ever sell, I hope iron-clad provisions will lock the new owner(s) into keeping existing data intact and accessible.

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I don’t see Tobias and Connor jumping ship anytime soon - Supernotes is the result of a true labour of love; likely inspired by their own frustrations with other note taking services out there. If anything, I could see them expanding the team, providing they are inline with their vision and contribute the same labour of love as Tobias and Connor.

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Thanks K3nzo. And I agree. Supernotes is clearly a labor of love, which is also clearly returned by myself and its many users in this Community. It’s quite unique.

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I had a similar question a while ago - and Tobias’ response filled me with a lot of confidence at the time.

Hope this helps.

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Thanks @Fizzster21. It does help, and I’m a bit relieved I’m not the only one to have raised the issue. I was worried about maybe rocking the boat. Supernotes is extraordinary and I hope it remains so for a long time. Tobias and Connor have built something quite remarkable.

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