[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Cocax:
@chuckjones and sphere314

I can definitely see where you're both coming from, but IMHO, and although LN is undeniably the best note taking app at the moment, the real draw of it is how acadoid behaves as a developer...

I mean, I'm sure we've all experienced the typical scenario countless times, be it with an Android app, computer software or an online application: requesting something that would make that program insanely more useful to you and most of the times not even receiving an answer of any kind; have lots of users requesting something which the developers stubbornly say no to because it "doesn't fit with our vision of the app"; or, to me the worst of all, have a bunch, or even the majority, of users requesting some feature which the developers say "it's planned" and they keep you waiting YEARS for it, without even giving an update about it, more often than not... And the result is always the same: the users (be it one or many) become frustrated and feel ignored, but end up adapting the way they work to work with the app, sometimes using workarounds so complicated it takes more to do the workaround than the thing they're trying to do, but they have to stick with it, even if they don't want to, because there's nothing better around...

Acadoid's dedication is refreshing! There's a reason why he is constantly complimented on his behavior by his users. He is actually invested in making the app useful for its users, making it work for its users, work WITH its users, instead of making the users work for the app. And he doesn't even have a team of developers and designers behind him, it's just him! That, to me, is what truly puts LN apart in the ocean of note taking apps. Because if you want an app that just gives you "core functionality", there are hundreds of great note taking apps in the market that give you that, not to mention SNote.

That said, I can see why the constant addition of user request could become a problem, especially long term. But I don't think the solution is stripping LN down.

Some suggestions that could help with this issue:

-I once suggested in an email for acadoid to start using something like "Get Satisfaction" or something similar: the users could submit feature requests and bug reports and then vote for them and give their opinion; it could help with centralizing and organizing the requests (instead of having them scattered in various threads, forums and emails) and, most importantly, it might help with prioritizing them;

-sphere314's suggestion regarding updates is spot on, I believe; instead of releasing a feature as soon as it is completed, wait and see if there are any more you can group with it (unless there's a bug needing to be fixed); but don't wait anymore than 1-2 weeks, or we might start falling in to what I described earlier;

-Perhaps make some features available as add-ons? I don't know if this is viable or even possible, but like you did with LectureRecordings, you could have feature packs available for download in the Play Store, and the users could decide if they want to have those features or not, making LN even more flexible and eliminating the bloat for some users (what is useful to me might not be useful to you - which doesn't mean that my requests should be ignored and left out).

I'm sorry if what I said wasn't useful and I'm especially sorry for making such a lengthy post, but I felt like throwing my 2cents in here :)

TL;DR: LectureNotes is awesome!