On Sunday, October 20, 2013 1:51:14 PM UTC-5, stevelitt wrote: > I think the first step in getting this kind of review is to get more > fans who can write and who are listened to. To do that, you'd need to > give them enough of a burning desire to spend a few days learning the > ins and outs of Leo. I'll give you an idea how to do this later in this > email. >
Good point. > > But first, I think Leo has an image problem. Mention Leo, and most > people say "it's an outliner." If that's all Leo was, VimOutliner would > have eaten Leo's lunch years ago --- VimOutliner's faster and has the > 90% of outlining features that people use 90% of the time. Not only > that, face the facts, 95% of the population will never believe they > need an outliner or that an outliner would do them any good, or that > outlining is a skill they need to bother to acquire. > Great comment. I've been thinking about it ever since. See below. > > My understanding, and please correct me if I'm wrong, is that Leo is a > mechanism by which you can specify a computer program as an outline > like thing in an outliner like setting, flip a switch, and bang, there's > your program. THAT'S what's going to hook people. > Exactly right. And that's what hooked me the instant I prototyped Leo using the MORE outliner! Not sure why you said "you can specify a computer program as an outline like thing in an outliner like setting." Why not just say, "write a computer program in an outline?" Is there some nuance I am missing? So here's what to do. Make a 3 minute video showing how to compose an > application outline and turn it into a program. The program can be > trivially simple, but make the program as 2014 relevant as possible: A > web app would be nice. At the end of the video explain that although > this video's program was simple, Leo can be used to make arbitrarily > complex apps, and make them well. > I agree. Something like this is urgently needed. It won't happen this week though. It's time to get the docs finished and Leo 4.11b1 out the door asap. > > Publicize these videos, and you're going to get some journalists > excited, and those are your reviews. > A great strategy. > > One more thing: Start publicizing different ways people use Leo. > Encourage them to write in with their unique uses, and publicize them. > I bet people are doing things with Leo you never dreamed of, and some > of those things might be the itch some journalist wants to scratch. > > HTH, > Ohhh yes, it helped. As the direct result of your comments, I realized that I have been missing *the* easiest marketing opportunity: the announcement about Leo! The first words of the announcement *must* list Leo's key benefits, and perhaps even say why Leo trumps Emacs org mode and vimoutline mode. This is a major opportunity missed. I'll correct it for the b1 announcement. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
