People may think that OnlineNotes (ON) is just another solution in search of a problem, meaning that nobody really needs this web service. But there are indeed many needs that can be satisfied by ON.

As a matter of fact, about a year ago I developed the ON prototype for my personal use. Not that I could not find other web services that could fulfil my needs, but each service would only fulfil some of them, and not exactly in the way I wished. So, instead of accepting compromises and registering in many different web services, I thought, being myself a software developer, I could build the ideal solution I had always been looking for. 

Here is a list of features  that I wanted to have in a unique and consistent web site:

• an online personal information manager accessible by means of any browser from any computer
• a sharable database with a set of predefined sections, unlimited categories, powerful filtering and sorting functions and the possibility to embed images, video and sounds
• the possibility for the database  to produce search results as dynamic web pages indexable by popular search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing etc.
• a place where to upload/browse/download files (documents or images)
• a link manager 
• a social bookmarking system
• a contact manager
• a to-do list and task manager
• an email scheduler to remind me or other people of things to do at any given date and time
• the possibility to share any information or file with all people or with a restricted list of persons
• an online notepad
• a mind mapper (useful for brainstorming) using database records
• an online image viewer with automatic creation of thumbnails, gallery indexes and slide shows
• a social network of users willing to share information and communicate with one another
• a chat system
• a forum
• a blog

There are plenty of web sites that can do the above things in excellent ways, for free or a fee, but I believe no one can cover more than 20-30% of the list. ON covers 100%.

Now, back to the original question: who needs all the features that come with ON? Maybe nobody needs 100% of them, but I think a significant number of people may find 30 to 50 % of the list useful and would be williing to use a solution like ON.  So the next step is to let these people know about ON.

But this will not be easy due to the fact that almost nobody wants to read more than large titles and slogans in a new web site, and it is impossible to explain in a few words how ON works and the many different things you can do with it.