I think the petulant negativity more than anything else is what I dislike. I’m self-employed, so I’m probably more aware of the value of a relationship, what goes into it, and that customers/clients can be both valuable or a hostile dependent according to the circumstances. It’s a business relationship, not taking on a child as a dependent forever-after if someone gives you some money in exchange for goods and services at a long ago point in time. I think everyone’s had experiences where they bent over backwards trying to hear someone out and make someone happy in entirely fruitless ways that only made their business worse and left no one any happier. And to have them bad-mouth you and your services for your trouble, and for years on end? I’ve ‘fired’ and let go plenty of clients, as I’m sure anyone in business has, and was usually better off for it. Apps and features aside, if someone acts like that, they are a problem. I don’t have a meal at a restaurant and spend 4 years after that ragging on the cooks for not adding a sauce I’d like to one of the dishes. That would be crazy, wouldn’t it?
I’ve suggested plenty of things over the years, plenty of which have become a reality, and plenty of which nothing ever came of. How I handled them is more how I would prefer suggestions to work: With the Markdown feature in notes, I argued the benefits of it, how it could solve a lot of problems many people had raised in a lightweight way that scales, how it’s already pretty popular so there’d be little learning, would help with marketing because there’s a culture around that giving it some exposure, on and on, but I made a suggestion and made a case for it. I remember Dwight thought rich text or something else might be better, or generally being wary of it, and discussing it with him. Then not much was said or done about it for a very long while after that. There was no ill will or bad feelings. If nothing ever came of it, I’d have lost no sleep, and spent no time leaving MLO only to come back saying MLO was a ridiculous and stupid piece of clumsy crap for 4 years in hopes that directly insulting the app and its developers would somehow endear them to me and my desires. And to John - If you valued your time very highly, I don’t think you’d have scoured the internet for years playing around with apps and whining about them at length. Before you came here, you were going around on other forums doing similar things, and among your replies were things similar to what I have said. Whatever amount of time you think you’d save by having a designated status feature that offered no additional functionality beyond what contexts currently provide, it pales in comparison to the time you’ve spent ragging on apps like MLO which took the time to hear you out on multiple occasions despite your continued childish treatment of them. It’s been at least 4 years John. Your petulance will soon be starting Kindergarten. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" 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 https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/94252824-3b0a-4204-85a5-0779da4783ac%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
