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In defense of these guys: 1. The feature is highly tangential. The core product is a time tracking app. A time tracking entry (core) can be associated with a "
by mapgrep 15y ago
In defense of these guys:
1. The feature is highly tangential. The core product is a time tracking app. A time tracking entry (core) can be associated with a "project" (metadata), which in turn can have "notes" (metadata about metadata). These guys built a time tracking app and ended up maintaining, in a dark corner inside of it, blogging software (functionally speaking).
2. This is the sort of feature that just grows and grows. Already we've gone (guessing here) from what was a project note to "notes" plural. Someone presumably had to figure out how to sort the notes and how to delete a note, etc.
Next the users will be asking for text search. After all, if you have 100 notes on a project, with people using them as a repo of project knowledge, search is kind of a basic feature, don't you think?
And it would also be nice if there was a pretty archive view with a nicely formatted calendar so you could easily go back in time without clicking through endless pages of old notes.
Oh, can we have RSS feeds per project, too? I'd like to see when there's a new note.
Oh, also, we should be able to attach an image to a note. Pretty basic.
Hey, if we can attach images why not videos? Can we embed tweets, too? Audio? Will you support HTML5 for my iPad AND Flash so we don't have to transcode to ogg for Firefox?
Oh and this text entry form is looking a little, hmm, primitive, could we add WYSWIG controls?
Etc. etc. They are smart to nip this in the bud when their product is still young, IMHO.