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.
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.
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.
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.
Not yet!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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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.