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| When Will NoteLife Be Released? |
| December 1, 2009 It took MUCH longer than we anticipated but we're happy to announce that NoteLife is now available at the iPhone App Store. We thank you for your patience over the past couple of months and hope that NoteLife makes your iPhone/iPod touch an even more productive and enjoyable part of your life. |
| November 16, 2009 On November 10, we received a phone call from Apple regarding NoteLife. They indicated that one of our icons was still "too similar" to a Mac OS X icon (even though it we had previously changed it to a completely unique icon). Rather than argue the point, we changed the icon again so it's no longer even vaguely similar to the OS X icon. The good news is they said that was the only remaining issue with NoteLife and they would work to expedite the review process. |
| November 3, 2009 Today, Apple contacted us again saying that NoteLife is requiring unexpected additional time for review. They didn't offer any specific reasons, but one possibility is that since NoteLife syncs with SOHO Notes, they have to fully test the syncing feature. We'll post any news as we receive it. |
| October 31, 2009 Here's the latest news on our NoteLife approval saga. On October 23, we received an email from Apple asking that we change the name of one of the views in NoteLife (which we did). We asked for an update on our approval status given that it's been 6 weeks since we submitted NoteLife. Unfortunately, it appears review times vary from app to app and some apps take much longer to review than others. This may be related to the size and complexity of a given app. But we continue to wait and hope. Thanks for your patience. |
| October 22, 2009 The short answer is that we don't know because we're still waiting for Apple approval, but we hope that it will be approved any day now. The long answer is that NoteLife was originally submitted to Apple on Sep 18, 2009. On September 29th, 2009 we received notification from Apple that they wanted us to change one of the icons in the NoteLife interface. We complied with their request and promptly resubmitted that application. That was three weeks ago so we're now keeping our fingers crossed and hoping that it will be made available soon! |
| Support Ticket Delays:( |
| October 22, 2009 The release of version 8 of SOHO Notes and SOHO Organizer has been HUGE. As a result, our support technician has been getting behind on support tickets. We've pulled a couple of our software engineers off of their normal duties of working on the software to help with support in an effort to reduce wait times, but wait times are still probably at one to two weeks. We appreciate your patience during this high volume period and we're really sorry for the delays. |
| Pre-Announcing NoteLife for the iPhone/iPod touch |
| August 28, 2009 It's no secret that the iPhone is HUGE and it's also no secret that our SOHO Notes customers want to synchronize their notes to their iPhones. Speaking of secrets, we have one that we'd like to share: "We have covertly been working on a world-class note manager for the iPhone for some time. We have kept it tightly under wraps until we knew it was good enough to be the best on the market. We're calling it NoteLife because it manages a lot of the important stuff in your life." Wow! That feels really good to finally share. NoteLife is one of those special products where everything comes together really nicely. It excels at storing media-rich notes including notes that contain rich text, images, audio, video, pdf's, web archives, bookmarks, files, and forms.  It also has features lacking in other note managers on the iPhone like full support for folders and nested sub-folders. It even lets you view your notes in either a standard list format or visually using a Cover Flow view with full note previews. Best of all, it synchronizes with the new forthcoming version of SOHO Notes 8. We're talking full two-way synchronization of notes (including all the media-rich types) and folders/sub-folders. NoteLife will be available on Apple's App Store for $4.99 on or around September 22, 2009 pending approval by Apple. Robert McCullough |
| Pre-Announcing SOHO Notes 8 and SOHO Organizer 8 |
| August 27, 2009 Sixteen months ago, we began the enormous undertaking of rewriting the core engine of SOHO Notes and SOHO Organizer from scratch in order to improve the speed of these products. This required throwing away years of work to create a new engine based on Apple’s extremely-fast Core Data. Five months ago, we asked our Notes and Organizer users what they wanted most in the next versions of these products. The top three requests voiced by an overwhelming majority of customers were: 1) faster launching; 2) faster searching; and 3) iPhone synchronization of notes. We were thrilled to learn that our engine re-write would answer the two biggest requests from our customers. Of course, we weren't content to just make the software faster so we decided to add some other heavily requested features to these new versions like the following: SOHO Notes • iPhone synchronization (more on this later) • Cover Flow view • Icon view • Voice, video, and photo recorder • Overhauled backup system that is faster and less obtrusive • New encryption system SOHO Organizer • Desktop calendar • Apple Mail integration • Themes for calendar customization • Voice, video, and photo recorder • Much improved print preview system The good news is that these new versions are complete and we're calling them version 8. We’re currently wrapping up final testing and preparing to submit the iPhone application to Apple. SOHO Notes 8 and SOHO Organizer 8 will be officially released on September 22, 2009. We're really excited about these upgrades and because of their enormity, we're going to be offering some amazing pre-release specials. You can read more about these specials and see screenshots of the new versions on our homepage. With all the good news, we also have some bad news. Our new database engine based on Core Data is no longer multi-user. This was an extremely hard decision for us to make, but there were just too many compelling reasons to go with Core Data and the bulk of our customers use our software in single-user environments. That said, we're currently looking into some solutions (open source, cloud, etc.) that will provide multi-user repositories for contacts, calendars, and notes. Once we release version 8, we aim to work closer with our multi-user customers to figure out what their needs are and how they might best be met. In fact, we'll be making some announcements after the release of version 8 detailing new ways that we plan to increase communication and collaboration with you our customers. Thank you for your support, The Chronos Team |
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