I came across this article, discussing a company Apple has bought - which seems to point to Apple adding much richer note taking capability to its mobile devices in the future - and also, with much richer access to those notes, better categorization, etc. It makes reference to Evernote, another note-taking product that has become very successful on all platforms, including mobile and desktop, in part because of the ecosphere of add-on products it has encouraged for others to build and tie into their product. The article seems to make the point that Apple sees a richer note taking experience as an important strategy for mobile devices moving ahead.
Why do I post this here in the Suggestion forum? It has been a long-time point of apparent frustration that Logos users want more capability in notes, but Logos resists because for some reason it perceives the interest as ill-conceived or inappropriate. I think this article and its comments show that note taking is a CRITICAL part of the work style of users these days, especially on mobile platforms.
Logos on a mobile device is extremely elementary in its note taking capability. That alone is not a cause for concern because the iOS product (the one I use) is relatively new, AND has been getting a lot better, so I have no doubts it will continue to do so; but at some point it will run into the brick wall of resistance to note taking as a serious function of Logos, and the improvements will end somewhere around the capability of the desktop or less. IMHO that's nowhere near good enough.
Even the basics of what Logos does in notes is behind - try doing a search in Evernote across a lot of notes, compared to a search of Logos notes. In Logos I find I have to pull notes out, make them a personal book, or pull notes out and throw them into a Word document temporarily to find things, depending on what I am doing. You can't even preserve hyperlinks when pasting into a note (if it's embedded within a paragraph in its source location) and have it preserved! I can't understand how Logos doesn't see the inadequacy of Notes in normal use.
With thousands upon thousands of resources and growing, there is a great necessity for our own Notes to help synthesize, filter, cleanse, and organize the information in that library - it's a very valuable layer on top of our resources. I am in my notes all the time. And every day I am wondering what other program I can use as the capability is so limited. With an electronic library, notes are a layer just as important in its function as Collections, filters, tags, ratings, etc.
Maybe Logos could hook into Evernote and use its engine for Note taking, for a richer experience?
I hope in some small way this post gets people to think, and look at Apple, Evernote, and others to see the power of a rich note taking experience. IMHO there is no one better than Apple in having vision for outstanding user experience with its products; if it was me, I would always be very interested in the trends Apple embraces in its vision, as no doubt users and competitors will sooner if not later follow the same path. It would make my Christmas if I knew Logos would embrace a similar "notes" vision for its product.
