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The Year Ahead

DateSunday, December 30, 2012 at 07:17PM by AuthorSimplenote

Twenty-twelve has been an exciting year: we’ve been focused on building a system called Simperium that not only increases the speed and reliability of Simplenote, but enables other applications to have the same effortless synchronization and online/offline capabilities.

The Nitty-Gritty

The legacy version of Simplenote’s API is hosted on Google App Engine. Many of the apps that sync with Simplenote, including some of our favorites like Notational Velocity and nvALT, still use this legacy API.

Our newer Simperium service uses Amazon Web Services (AWS), and is built to be much more resilient to failure. DashNote and ResophNotes are on this new API already. We know that many of you rely on Simplenote to run your lives, so even a few minutes of downtime is a major pain. We’re committed to dealing more gracefully with unexpected failures, bugs, limitations, and communicating better with you when there is a problem.

Holiday Bonus

We’ve given all premium subscribers two months free to thank you for being early adopters and sticking with us through some tough times in the last year. We’re also going to be working with all our developers to get their apps on the new API so we can officially deprecate our older, less scalable systems by the end of 2013.

Finally, we’re going to loop back on some of the most popular user requests, including an Android app, Mac app, and native support for Markdown while of course preserving the simplicity you've come to expect.

We hope that you, too, are using this holiday season to relax and recharge for a full 2013, and here’s to many more (simple) notes in our future together.

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Reader Comments (8)

Looking forward to the Mac app. Could I add a Windows RT/8 version to that list?

All the best for the new year....

December 31, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterJohn

Font selection/monospace fonts would be really great. Thanks for the good work and happy new year!

December 31, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterMartin

My wish for 2013 : a more reliable Windows client, because I have had too much dataloss with ResophNotes. I have also had numerous problems during the switch from the legacy API to Simperium, but I assume that it is now behind us.

A Mac app ? nvAlt does the job for me, thanks. I see no reason to switch.

Congratulations for the great work and all the best for 2013 !

January 1, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterDada

Are there any Android apps that are using the new API?

I've been using FlickNote, but I think I've just got too many notes for it as it takes forever to sync and makes my phone unusable, so I'm in the market for a new app and "more resilient to failure" sounds like a great feature to have. :)

January 2, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterKeri

Does this mean it will work in China now!?

January 5, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterGarry

Can't wait for the Android version! I have my $ ready.
Thanks for a great application.

January 6, 2013 | Unregistered Commenterjoshvito

Perhaps this is implied, but I hope the native support for Markdown includes MultiMarkdown. Looking forward to the new API.

January 17, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterJohn

I just want to be able to tag with # and share with @

January 18, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterGosz

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