-psidnell
Thanks, that makes sense now.
Thanks, that makes sense now.
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2012-05-15, 05:05 AM
-psidnell
Thanks, that makes sense now.
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2012-05-17, 04:29 PM
Perhaps a better comparison would be Circus Ponies Notebook? It syncs my notebooks (outlines) with attachments and all between my ipad and macbook via dropbox. Not sure how it handles the attachment issue as discussed by the OmniGroup team, but the sync works and it is really quite impressive.
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2012-05-17, 06:29 PM
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I use CP Notebook extensively - it is incredibly handy otherwise. The UI is a bit clunky and I use OO to create input on the iPad (1000x better) then import it as OPML on the mac version and do the file "sync" to get it into my notebook. Attachments work great on Notebook. J.
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2012-05-18, 08:37 AM
Interesting perspective here from Fletcher Penney on iCloud vs. Dropbox:
http://fletcherpenney.net/2012/05/dr...vs_icloud.html
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2012-05-27, 01:21 PM
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2012-06-26, 05:17 PM
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Why not? I can't say. I speculate that they want Dropbox to work differently, to work in a way that supports them. And iCloud will be here soon enough and they can just use that right? Well kinda. So long as you have a version of the OS that supports iCloud (and is supported on your hardware), and you use iCloud, and you buy the new version of the app though the App Store, etc. I am all for them supporting iCloud, but I want them to support Dropbox as well. They already know how to do it, but just like iPhone support seem utterly uninterested. I personally am using OO less and less. It is an amazing piece of software, but if I can't get work done, it doesn't matter...
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2012-06-26, 05:53 PM
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2012-06-26, 07:48 PM
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So hopefully they do something like that. However it is all theoretical. My larger point still stands, Omni has everything they need to make syncing over dropbox work now. Once again they are letting perfect be the enemy of good enough. They hold off for some theoretically better solution, instead of giving us what we need to be productive now.
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2012-06-26, 08:57 PM
They don't do anything as quickly as many would like, so doing an "interim" solution makes for even more pain for those who want the "ideal" solution (which usually gets delayed by all the time spent on the stopgap). They aren't going to knock out a Dropbox solution in a week or two, no matter how much you or I might want it or think that's all the longer it should take. One might almost suspect that if it isn't part of their vision, no one gets fired up about doing it, but there are clearly plenty of things which are part of their vision which also progress at a frustratingly slow pace. The thing that is more difficult but gets them fired up may not take much longer than that which is easier but reluctantly done to get us off their backs...
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2012-06-26, 09:29 PM
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When I talk about perfect being the enemy of good enough I am not talking about knocking something out quickly. I am talking about the all too common problem engineers have where they have a vision of a "perfect" solution (in reality nothing is perfect) and they will either wait until they can do it exactly that way, or not implement a feature because it cannot be done that way. Omni should have known the solution for a long time, but they have known it for a few months now. More than enough time to get a release out, or at least toss their users a bone and say it is coming...
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