For anyone interested, we have put up a new page on our site, the Nisus Sneak Peek Page. We wanted to provide a way for people to have a look at what we are currently working on, and to receive feedback for those interested in giving it.
We do not offer support on Sneak Peek builds. These builds are development builds. There will be some stabililty issues, and it will have bugs. You probably do not want to use one of these dev builds for everyday work. However, if you are interested in trying some of the new features, such as bullets and numbering, the new style sheet navigator, and right to left input, we are interested in hearing your feedback.
So, for those of you who are brave, please have a look and let us know what you think.
My first impression was that the new version (NWE 2,5 Sneak Peek) was noticeablyfaster in opening (starting the application) than previous versions (2.1.1 and earlier). Looks very promising indeed! Keep up the good work.
Your willingness to open up the development process for Nisus Writer — firstly through your blog and now through Sneak Peeks — is enlightened! Please consider blogging more of your design thinking as you go — so others can give you feedback. Thanks.
Looks like 2.5 will address a major hole in functionality — bullets and numbers. Well done. We don’t need all the bells and whistles but we do need all the basics to be well implemented. Look forward to being able to use Nisus again. Linkback and potential for working with Keynote in a “synced” way also looks good to me.