I have been working nearly full time on the Evernote backup implementation and things are shaping up nicely. I became inspired by Tweetie 2’s refresh tweets idea so I decided to implement something similar in our app. I have been wondering for a while how we could have a sync button without a sync button and this works perfectly. Simply pull the table view down beyond the end of the list and release. If the user does not want to sync they can push the list back up before releasing and no sync will occur.
The beta testers have been testing it although we do not have as many testers for this round due to my warning to our testers that this may very well wreck your notes. Users are pretty partial to those things so only a few have been brave enough to try it and so far its gone well. None of our testers, to my knowledge, have lost any of their notes, and as an added bonus their notes are making their way to the evernote server and back.
I am hoping to release another beta to our users later this week as we are shooting for a final release to Apple by the end of the month so that we can have something to show off at ETS next month.
- This has been a great week of coding. @StephenLJohnson @mellowfish and I have been furiously implementing new features for the next release
- A lot of excitement around here involving zombies, but not the kind that you may be thinking of, more like NSZombie - ah the g33k in me
- Sometimes you just have to pause your expansion and build up your infrastructure.
#1 by Emma on December 5, 2009 - 2:09 pm
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Not happy with the Evernote solution. Their privacy terms are utterly ridiculous and laughable. Using the Evernote service is inconceivable…
“Accordingly, by using the Service and posting Content, you grant Evernote a license to display, perform and distribute your Content, and to modify and reproduce such Content to enable Evernote to operate and promote the Service. ”
http://www.evernote.com/about/tos/
The reasons they give are even more laughable. I have Apple’s mobileme service which is far more extensive and has no such conditions…
“…so that our storage, technical reproduction, back-up and distribution, and related handling of your Content doesn’t infringe applicable copyright and other laws”.
http://www.evernote.com/about/tos/
Thanks Olive Tree, but I am still waiting for a backup facility for notes. Due to the terms and conditions above, I consider the Olive Tree biblereader to be without a backup facility.