We haven’t made the purchase link too obvious yet.
It’s http://www.accomplice.com/upgrade.html

You probably figured that out by now…
-Jason

While there are lots of little things we can do to add up to a better and better experience, I think you would be amazed at how many users try Accomplice and stick with it today. This is simply because the need is so prevalent and there is nothing else out there that is sufficient to address the full personal needs of activity management - and we believe, based on feedback from lots of users, that we have done a lot of things right so far. We also have clear ideas, again based on customer feedback, on what things will make Accomplice have an even higher “sticky” rate as we develop the product further.
Again, I want to commend you - you’ve nailed several things others have asked us to improve. It’s very constructive feedback which we value. A few comments that I hope will help…
- We sync to Outlook mostly so that PDA users can sync bidirectionally to/from their Blackberry/Treo/Windows Mobile, etc. to/from Accomplice. The idea is that Accomplice is a much richer application for task management than the Outlook Tasks component, so we are going to focus our developments in other areas that will provide more value, rather than make the Outlook tasks sync be a perfect Utopia.
- The duplicates you saw in your tasks is fixed in release 1.2.1. Please upgrade to that to prevent the issue from recurring.
- To subtask, instead of Ctrl-N, try Ctrl-Enter. Also to create a peer level task, hit Ctrl-Shift. See help (http://www.accomplice.com/help/hs167.htm ) for more shortcuts.
- The ads: customers who don’t want them can upgrade to Professional and be able to turn them on and off, for an early-bird discount of $29.95. This also gives you all the advanced features that we’ll be including in the Professional over the next year, and there’s a lot coming! Most people are quite happy with the links, but don’t like them, so we just give people a choice. Interestingly, there are also many customers who have told us they actually prefer the ad links because they are somewhat relevent and useful.
- Several of the things you mentioned are on our short and medium term roadmap. We look forward to making Accomplice better and better.

-Jason Feinsmith, CEO, Accomplice

I understand that Outlook synchronization isn’t a priority for Accomplice, just please understand that it’s very important to people such as myself who have spent hundreds of dollars on a pocket pc. Of course, if you found a better way to synchronize with my Axim that bypassed Outlook I would consider that a solution as well.

Personally, I don’t mind ads in some locations (Google search results) but in others I need all the screen real-estate I can get and find any intrusions very distracting. I’ll have to visit your website again, as the first time I looked for a link for purchasing Accomplice I couldn’t find it.

Again, I can’t wait to see what you do with Accomplice, you are very correct in stating there is a strong need for a product such as this. Thanks!

While there are lots of little things we can do to add up to a better and better experience, I think you would be amazed at how many users try Accomplice and stick with it today. This is simply because the need is so prevalent and there is nothing else out there that is sufficient to address the full personal needs of activity management - and we believe, based on feedback from lots of users, that we have done a lot of things right so far. We also have clear ideas, again based on customer feedback, on what things will make Accomplice have an even higher “sticky” rate as we develop the product further.
Again, I want to commend you - you’ve nailed several things others have asked us to improve. It’s very constructive feedback which we value.

A few comments that I hope will help…
- We sync to Outlook mostly so that PDA users can sync bidirectionally to/from their Blackberry/Treo/Windows Mobile, etc. to/from Accomplice. The idea is that Accomplice is a much richer application for task management than the Outlook Tasks component, so we are going to focus our developments in other areas that will provide more value, rather than make the Outlook tasks sync be a perfect Utopia.
- The duplicates in your tasks is fixed in release 1.2.1. Please upgrade to that to prevent the issue from recurring.
- To subtask, instead of Ctrl-N, try Ctrl-Enter. Also to create a peer level task, hit Ctrl-Shift. See help (http://www.accomplice.com/help/hs167.htm ) for more shortcuts.
- The ads: if you don’t like them, customers can upgrade to Professional be able to turn them on and off at an early-bird discount of $29.95. This also gives you all the advanced features that we’ll be including in the Professional over the next year, and there’s a lot coming! That said, we have actually had a lot of people tell us they really like the sponsored links because they are often relevant and helpful, and in a way, just cool. Opinions here will certainly vary, but our studies have shown the vast majority of people are quite comfortable, and many even happy with the ads - they are intentionally unobtrusive, text only, designed to be helpful resources, and since we don’t use cookies, and for other reasons, protect your privacy.
- A surprising number of the things you mentioned are on our short and medium term roadmap. We look forward to making Accomplice better and better.

Sincerely,
Jason, CEO, Accomplice