StickyBrain, one of the leading 'digital junk drawer' apps that recently entered a
4.1 beta testing phase, has been officially discontinued by Chronos in favor of SOHO Notes 5.5. Current registered users of StickyBrain 4.0 will receive an upgrade to SOHO Notes for free, while users who own licenses for any previous StickyBrain versions (1.x, 2.x and 3.x) can upgrade to SOHO Notes 5.5 for a mere $25, the price offered in the past for upgrading from StickyBrain 3.x to 4.x.
Why is StickyBrain being dissolved in favor of SOHO Notes, you ask? Chronos has published an
announcement and FAQ explaining the decision, but here's the short version: SOHO Notes is basically the big brother of StickyBrain; they're almost the same app, derived from the same codebase, except SOHO Notes included three key features that Chronos used to charge extra for:
- SOHO Notes can synchronize notes between multiple computers using a .Mac account (seamlessly, in the background).
- SOHO Notes can access multiple note databases simultaneously.
- SOHO Notes is multi-user capable which means users can share notes with others over a network using the product's client/server technology.
Now, with SOHO Notes taking the helm, its price has dropped to $39.99 to keep it more in-line with StickyBrain's previous price, as well as the competition like
Yojimbo and
DEVONthink.
Feature-wise, this new version of
SOHO Notes 5.5 offers some powerful new goodies, such as the ability to import and catalog almost any kind of file, send notes to your blog, a DockNote that makes it easy to get info both in and out, audio recording notes, full-screen editing of notes, a Daily Journal/Diary category that can automatically date/time stamp notes and much more.
Whether you love your hate
StickyBrain SOHO Notes, this should be good news for the 'digital junk drawer' market, as this price drop and the new features should help keep everyone's innovative juices flowing.
Chronos has just introduced a new product called iClipBoard 1.0. This clipboard manager keeps track of what you've copied to the clipboard and makes it available in an attractive side shelf. Not only does it track the current contents of your clipboard, but it keeps a history of everything you've copied (defined by parameters you setup, and if you copy something you don't want people to know about don't worry, you can delete something from the history). The shelf also has a quick preview so you can easily find that picture or snippet of text you copied days ago.
The busy bees at Chronos have indeed been... busy. Not to be content with 
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