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March 2016 Update

Why we are finally building a Notes Browser, why it took so long and why this is the best time to buy Ghostnote.

Ok we give in. You win! We are officially implementing a notes browser which will allow you to find all your notes in a central place. This has been one of the most requested features form way before we even builtGhostnote and you might be wondering why it took us so get to it. We always knew this was something we would have to eventually build so why did it take so long?

The truth is that yes we always knew we would have to implement it, but we wanted to hold it off for as long as possible because Ghostnote was built on the idea ofcontextual notes, not structured notes. The whole idea behind the app was to build something that didn’t require you to structure it. We also held back because we were afraid that people would just consider it a normal notes app like all the others out there. As you might have experienced yourself Ghostnote is not a concept you get from just reading contextual notes. You kind of have to try it out to see whats so unique about it.

Anyway. We feel like we have a big enough users base and enough feedback that it’s time to make Ghostnote a moremature platform. This also means we will be not only creating a notes browser, we will also allow you to create notes that aren’t tied to any app or document or website or folder so you can use Ghostnote as your primary note taking or todo app, not just for contextual notes.

Don’t panic. We will not change anything about how it works today. Instead we are going to build a separate app which will look more like a traditional app. We believe this will make Ghostnote even better than it already is.

This also means we are going to update the price moving forward to better reflect it’s value. So if you haven’t yet bought Ghostnote, but have been thinking about it, now is a good time to do so. Because we will soon be setting our price point to somewhere around $15-$20USD. Everyone who buys before next upgrade will get it at the current price. If you already bought it you won’t be paying for the new version.

As part of the coming update and enhancements we are going to add to Ghostnote we will be temporarily discontinuing our Evernote support. We love Evernote ourselves but have found a number of issues with the API which we think will be much easier do deal with once we build the Notes Browser.

If you don’t know what Ghostnote is you should check out this video:

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions. Don’t hesitate to write us at support@ghostnoteapp.com, hit us up on twitter or send us a message on Facebook.

  • William Fernandes

    Amazing, only one question: the notes are going to be in any folder that I can move?

    • http://www.ghostnoteapp.com Ghostnote Headquarters

      Not right now but we are working on a solution that should solve it. The problem is that we don’t know all paths to documents.

  • ningbao

    Is Evernote Export working?

  • OaklandWasp

    Can Ghostnote attach notes to images open in Lightroom? despite the presence of a script in my demo version this does not work in the most recent version of Lightroom. Kind of essential for me, as it notating Photoshop documents.

    • http://www.ghostnoteapp.com Ghostnote Headquarters

      Hi OaklandWasp

      It should be able to do that.

      See this example:

      http://cl.ly/3g2m3L372m1n

      • OaklandWasp

        Unfortunately, that doesn’t help. That’s a note attached to the Lightroom CATALOG itself, which in turn is a database with maybe thousands of photos; getting the front document, if it’s the catalog, isn’t helpful. What Lightroom users would want its a note attached to the photo itself they’re viewing, without having to go out to the photo in the Finder to do it. Rather like it’s supposedly done in Photoshop.

        • http://www.ghostnoteapp.com Ghostnote Headquarters

          Let me look into this. It should be possible as long as Lightroom allow for access to the selected image.

          Will get back to you.

          • OaklandWasp

            Thanks tons.

            There are several people I know who use Lightroom who have been looking for a notes plugin; there is one but it’s rather kludgy and it isn’t supported any longer, and it doesn’t work outside Lr. We’d all be thrilled if we could add notes to the individual images, especially since Lr doesn’t have the same annotation capability Photoshop has.

  • Throne Albert

    When will you release the update?

    • http://www.ghostnoteapp.com Ghostnote Headquarters

      Almost there. But it’s more difficult than originally thought. We have it all working right now though.

  • modi34

    the only problem with your software is that it is absolutely unreliable – it looses notes, does not let paste notes from clipboard, and it is difficult to write notes in your buggy editor
    it is a bad software for taking notes – only one very simple feature makes it interesting///

    • http://www.ghostnoteapp.com Ghostnote Headquarters

      Hi Modi

      We are working on fixing these bugs. Unfortunately osx isn’t easy to control.

  • http://kevinohlsson.com/ Kevin Ohlsson

    Hows the progress :) ? Are you planning on supporting windows anytime soon?

    • http://kevinohlsson.com/ Kevin Ohlsson

      :(