In a recent post concerning cloud computing Bob said:
"Will we do them, and suffer the hassle and inconvenience, if they are the top priority of a huge number of users?
Yes."
...that is, unless it is effective notetaking within Logos!
It's so sad to see multitudes of users have to post work arounds - e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QGGD7rOEYs- the respected long-term Logos user here even resized an external note-taking product and put it on top to make it "feel" inside. Can't help but notice that when he hovered over references in OneNote nothing popped up!!!!.... How sad!
Tell all those missionaries in the field .. "Logos is great, but oh, by the way, you'll will need to pay extra for the note-taking facilities because this software is useless apart from a costly MICROSOFT add-on."
To answer Bob's question:
"Which really gets to the bottom line: where do you want us spending our
time?"
I think the hundreds of posts in the forums and votes on uservoice about notes tell you want we want 'your smart team' to concentrate on!
Oh, and we don't want a word-processor. Times have moved on - we want a Logos integrated version of One-Note! ( BTW, even the visionaries at microsoft saw effective note-taking as different from word-processors, hence the two products).
Apologies for the sarcasm in this note. Having invested a tremendous amount of time and money over the years (many many thousands of resources) and with current 'bids' on about 90% of the titles in prepub and 100% Comm pricing, I feel frustrated when such a simple thing - managed to be implemented successfully by every other competitor including freeware and opensource products - is broken and the cause of much contention and work-arounds by the majority of the user base.
Thanks for listening.
James
PS For the record I think RTF has had it's day - it's an old format that hasn't moved on. The way to go is XHTML (with CSS) - it's changing and moved on, but I think it'll be around for a while yet. In a previous post Bob mentioned tables needing to be resized as an example of how difficult note-making can become. Simple if you use HTML & CSS!
