Ok then I guess that if note contains rich formatting, a warning should be displayed that after editing in external editor all formatting will be lost.

Thanks a lot, Chris! This is very useful info.

Hello Bo,
Thanks a lot for your comment, and really sorry that I didn't reply the previous time - this happens not often, but sometimes I can forget to reply.

Also thanks a lot for going Lifetime PRO, I appeciate your support!

Your points are valid. Ok, let's assume that my arguments about size bloat and language dependence are not persuasive.

Further, let's suppose I take this all onboard and implement spell check in CN 3.0. After that I get a lot of angry mails asking me what the heck I ignored all features from top 10 or even top 25. What should I answer? "Bo Grimes and Colin Smith promised me that implemeting this feature will double sales" doesn't sound like a good excuse. "It's my program and I decide what to implement" is another possibility, but then again people will see that voting doesn't work and will think that regular asking, reminding and begging is the way to go to get the needed feature. Do I want this to happen? No.

Basically we'll return to the chaos with feature requests which we had before the voting on the roadmap. Now the rules may not be perfect, but at least they are clear and transparent - if you want a feature, you go and vote, you bring 100 of your friends to vote, etc. 

Other argument: currently we don't have the resources needed to conduct a full-scale marketing research. So we can only guess which features will increase sales, and which will be barely noticed. Votes are not perfect, but I think that they are still a little bit correlated with what people need and want. 

Thanks for your elaboration. This could be an interesting approach. However I don't know what to do with text formatting in this scenario?

Thomas, thanks for the links, will certainly come in handy!

Colin, thanks for your opinion! I agree with most of it, however I have to take into account other considerations. For example, implementing spell check just for English would be discriminative, but implementing it for many languages would be a very difficult task and would make CintaNotes grow from 10 MB to 50 MB, which many users would find frustrating.

Votes of course are not perfect, but we have nothing better I'm afraid. You think that spell check is essential, but many think that you can get by without spell check, but encryption is essential. Who is right?
All in all, IMO votes are a good enough approximation of user demands. Our goal is not to get all possible users, our goal is to find our own niche and stick to it, because for a small software company with 2 devs it is impossible to implement all features and compete head to head with giants like Evernote and Onenote. At least at this moment

And to survive, we have to do exactly the opposite: not go with essential, but go with unique features, ones that Evernote and Onenote don't have. 

Agreed. And implementation will use a custom collation. Hopefully we'll even be able to find a ready-made implementation of the natural order sort function.
But first we need to see some votes, of course ;)

Thanks for the clarifications!
Ok I'm now changing the status to "Planned". However I unfortunately can't make any promises on the dates, since there are a lot of other features planned which have more votes than this one. Hope you understand!