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Popular questions

Can I get a lifetime subscription?

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This is a good question but for many reasons, the answer is unfortunately no.The costs to run and manage the infrastructure for Bundled Notes are ongoing, and subscriptions are the sole income source for the app.

For the sake of the longevity of the service, it's therefore not sensible to sell one-off, unlimited access - because at some point in time (years later, likely), such users will have cost more to run than they paid to unlock features of the service originally. Though the service is relatively cheap to run in its infancy, with user storage expanding and the likilihood of employees joining the team in the future, it is far more sensible to choose a business model that works in the long term from day one, rather than change the business model halfway and alienate existing customers.

There is also a more personal reason: Bundled Notes is currently a one-man team, so income stability is important. One-time payments create a frustrating effect where some months can be very profitable, and others can be much lower. For the sake of being able to provide a consistent service with a predictable income, subscriptions are by far the best method.

Functionality

What can Bundled Notes do?

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Bundled Notes has a range of productivity, note-taking, and organisation features. The premise is simple: you create different 'bundles' to solve different problems. Bundles are like notebooks in other applications, but with a greater range of unique configuration. For example, you could have one bundle be for basic notes like Google Keep, one bundle for a project with boards of information and organised data, and another for neatly categorised recipes. Combined with a reminders system, to-do functionality, powerful tags and a rich text editor, the possibilities of bundles are near endless.

What are bundles?

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Bundles are basically notebooks that you make to store and organise different things. Each bundle can have different notes, different sort orders, diffent tags & a different look and feel.

For example, you might have a grid bundle that looks like Google Keep for your regular notes, a list bundle to keep track of movies and shows you want, and then a Kanban boards bundle for keeping track of a project you are working on. Each bundle is like a mini-app.

Can you setup to-do lists?

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There are many ways to approach to-do lists in Bundled Notes. The first thing to consider is whether you want all your to-do items in one bundle, or whether they might be organised into different bundles/spaces. You might, for example, have a general to-do bundle, a shopping list bundle, and a school to-do bundle.

To-do lists with Tag Actions
The first and most integrated way to create to-do lists is with tags. When editing a tag, you may enable the"Add to-do checkbox to notes with this tag" option - all notes with these tags will get a clickable checkbox. This means in the one bundle, you can have to-do items alongside other non-actionable content. For example, in a University bundle, you might have the "Assignment" tag be todoable, but not the "Lecture Notes" tag. By default, checked items are sorted to the bottom.
To-do with changing tags
You could also set up a to-do system with tags that change from one to the next - the "Swap tags" feature. This is especially useful if your to-do items have multiple stages - like "Planning", "Doing" and "Done" in a project bundle, or "Want to read", "Reading" and "Finished Reading" in a Books List bundle.

To set this up using the Books List example:
  1. Create the "Want to read", "Reading" and "Finished Reading" tags.
  2. Edit the "Want to read" tag by long-pressing it. Enable the "Add swap tags button to notes with this tag". Finally, select the "Reading" tag as the tag to swap to. Click save.
  3. Edit the "Reading" tag by long-pressing it. Enable the "Add swap tags button to notes with this tag". Finally, select the "Finished Reading" tag as the tag to swap to. Click save.
And, voila! Now, all you have to do to swap the tags of a note is tap the button on the Book notes!

Can I import my notes from another service (Keep/Evernote etc.)

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Not yet!

What is the security/encryption model?

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The service follows the standard encryption-at-rest & encryption-in-transit model that many note-taking services like Keep, Evernote and similar applications follow. However, end-to-end encryption is not currently supported - a future update is planned with end-to-end encrypted note data.

Support & admin

What is the security/encryption model?

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The service follows the standard encryption-at-rest & encryption-in-transit model that many note-taking services like Keep, Evernote and similar applications follow. However, end-to-end encryption is not currently supported - a future update is planned with end-to-end encrypted note data.

Is an iOS/Mac/Windows app planned?

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An iOS app is planned, which will likely be built with a MacOS port in mind to arrive shortly after. The details are not locked in, and it is over 6 months away (from January 2020). Follow the Bundled Notes social media account for updates!

A native Windows app is not planned. This may change, but it is not coming in 2021.

Can I get a lifetime subscription?

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This is a good question but for many reasons, the answer is unfortunately no.The costs to run and manage the infrastructure for Bundled Notes are ongoing, and subscriptions are the sole income source for the app.

For the sake of the longevity of the service, it's therefore not sensible to sell one-off, unlimited access - because at some point in time (years later, likely), such users will have cost more to run than they paid to unlock features of the service originally. Though the service is relatively cheap to run in its infancy, with user storage expanding and the likilihood of employees joining the team in the future, it is far more sensible to choose a business model that works in the long term from day one, rather than change the business model halfway and alienate existing customers.

There is also a more personal reason: Bundled Notes is currently a one-man team, so income stability is important. One-time payments create a frustrating effect where some months can be very profitable, and others can be much lower. For the sake of being able to provide a consistent service with a predictable income, subscriptions are by far the best method.

Why don't you allow self-hosting data?

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When I first starting developing Bundled Notes years ago, I originally ceased development when it was an offline-only app. I picked the project up again one day because I found a new service from Firebase (Firestore) that made making seamless syncing apps much more accessible. It manages the on-device data, while automatically syncing it to the cloud and other devices of the authorised user. It's fast, it's low-latency, and it handles all the fundamental data behaviours.

It might be possible to implement self-hosting, but the trade-offs are huge. I would have to:

  1. Cease current feature development to focus on implementing a completely different, more complex database system, that would have to work alongside the current database service.
  2. Consider the likely possibility that the new engine may make feature-parity extremely difficult (bundle-sharing, for example), sacrifice several marketing elements (seamless, instant syncing), and likely sacrifice many small touches that make the app enjoyable (adding loading wheels, sync status indicators, adding setup steps etc.).
  3. Deal with a raft of new bugs and syncing issues, as well as significantly slowing cross-platform feature development given I have to co-maintain multiple database services. Self hosting platforms have their fair share of quirks and moderate performance issues.
All these issues will yield a feature that caters to a niche of users, while significantly slowing development and changing the look, feel and purpose of the current service. On top of that, the feature would undermine the existing business model and significantly complicate the product.

Can I help translate the service?

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Yes, though there is a fixed cap on number of translators per language. Translators are compensated and credited, please join the translation telegram for details here.

How do I report a bug?

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It can be worth checking if users have reported the bug on the Telegram or Bundled subreddit! If a bug report is well known or has been reported many times, an automated reply may be used. If a bug is serious, please report it through the contact form here:

If your query is not answered in the FAQ, and you couldn't find an answer a quick search on social media, please contact me directly at: support@bundlednotes.com

Thousands of emails have been recieved with feature suggestions, so it is quite likely your suggestion has already been made! There will soon be a planned features page on this site to clearly communicate plans, and this message will be replaced with a proper contact form soon.

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