Good to see all the old timers crawl out of the woodwork. I'm going to offer a suggestion that appears alot of the Mac world at the moment that would help Andrey and in the long run help us.
Switching to a subscription model. Many iOS apps have done this in the past few years to provide a stable income stream for their creators and steady stream. Benefits: - Steady income allows the app developer to keep people on staff - Features can be released as it's useful and not a big bang i.e. v5 or 6 - where if you don't get your feature in that release you wait another 12-18 mth release cycle Others who have done the same transition gave existing app owners, permanent access to all existing features. One app (either Drafts or Fantastical), simply made all existing "Pro" features free and then the subscription unlocked the new features. There were other safeguards put in place, but the key idea is existing users didn't lose anything, Greg Pierce (of Drafts), discussed his journey on the MacPowerUsers Podcast: https://www.relay.fm/mpu/639 When I find the interview with the Fantastical founder I will share. I know for some this is hersey and so Andrey will need to reflect carefully. Frankly I think it's Andrey's path to long term sustainability. I would even give up my free license that I won years ago and pay for a subscription. Cheers Mark On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 3:34 PM imajeff <[email protected]> wrote: > Agreed; I too have used MLO since before there was a version number > (syncing with my Microsoft PDA before a smart phone was possible). > Ten years later I thought the difficulty with daily usage would be solved > but now, even that was a long time ago and I struggle to maintain tasks. It > seems mostly changing what would help me could hinder some other way > someone uses it. Internally, it might require much planning plus a big > rewrite, but they don't have funding to just hire another team to develop a > whole new idea in parallel. Would be like a competition to see who wins > becoming the next release (it's what Microsoft has done, and just drop the > one that didn't win). > > But if they will redo it at least enough to allow some scripting language > to check and modify things triggered by events, that would be a great start > so others can help make normal usage work the way they need, sharing the > ideas. Let's make MLO great again > > On Tuesday, May 31, 2022 at 9:48:28 AM UTC-6 daniel wrote: > >> Mark, That is simply the best description of my MLO usage ever. I also >> have been around nearly as long. The 'exact' same thoughts: "Easy to plan >> with, Easy to keep track of everything. Hard to live with on a day to day >> basis" OMG I'm married to MLO! >> >> On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 8:11 PM Mark Levison <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> @Hienz you’ve just summarized my entire MLO relationship for as long as >>> I’ve used the app. Which apparently dates back 17yrs almost to the day. >>> >>> Easy to plan with, Easy to keep track of everything. Hard to live with >>> on a day to day basis, which is why I eventually wind up abandoning it >>> every few years. >>> >>> Cheers >>> Mark - an early user and former forum admin >>> >> -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/CA%2BUdPQ-rjs27FUEkJZrUWuGUvjkDpFDiiKOOHyfX%3DdW3praUsA%40mail.gmail.com.
