Is DTP actively being developed?

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@argoulyle

@MDAnderson

I’m in the camp who is not allowed to transfer work-related materials into random people’s clouds because it violates the agreements I’ve made for storing the data, so Evernote and its’ ilk are a non-starter for me.

I’ve no problems with DTPO and find it indispensable. I assume there will be a 3+ version someday but I’m not feeling a major lack of anything that it can’t do right now.

Except.

There’s really no mobile solution at all as has been pointed out. Being kind, DTTG is junk that mostly doesn’t work, crashes and is anything but stable or useful.

In 2014 a complete lack of a viable mobile solution/sync is something I’d consider to be a problem. I’m really not seeing a lack of progress on DTPO, as someone just posted there is a constant stream of updates, fixes, enhancements. All that.

The mobile version… not so much, a lonely tombstone?

‘No major lack of anything’ – an interface refresh would be quite nice, especially in light of OS X Yosemite.

OmniGroup, another productivity specialist Mac developer, have also refreshed the interface for their productivity suites (OmniFocus 2, OmniOutliner 4, …).

I don’t consider an interface refresh to be a major lack. Don’t get me wrong. The look and feel of the app are important, but it gets the job done right now, and that is a lot more than I can say for many apps that spit and polish their apps all the time. I value function over form, and DTPO is doing pretty well in this regard.

DTTG… Well, that thing is usable, but only just barely. Besides the crashing with RTF files (something that ought to be fixed in the next update), it definitely does need an interface redesign. If you use long titles, as I do, then there is a lot of hit and miss before you finally get to the file you want. If they can modify it to display the entire title instead of a tiny portion, it’d greatly improve my experience with it. In this case, the interface is affecting usability. I can’t think of anything like this happening with DTPO (besides the crashing with PDFs, but that is supposed to be fixed shortly).