| Thanks for the review. Agree with most of your points here, briefly: iPhone app is just capture right now, intended for "I just had this thought that I need to muse on later." We don't market it much because it's so limited. Future version will build on the sync infrastructure to offer better capture and ability to look up stuff on your boards. Board rename on Mac is a quick fix we squeezed in before launch. Will make that nicer soon. Anchoring boards to the top left explained a bit here: https://museapp.com/memos/2021-03-flex-boards/ -- but has the tradeoffs you mention if you want extra space in the left and top. OneNote is pretty great actually, ahead of its time. It does still have the "big list of documents" element and in general has the Microsoft level of design polish, which is to say, not much. So certainly our target market with Muse is folks that prefer something better-crafted and from a small/indie team. But that only emphasizes the importance of those fit-and-finish bits you mentioned. Now that our sync engine is finally out in the world we can spend time iterating on that. Yes, we do need some way to link/embed/transclude documents between applications. OLE was one failed attempt, OpenDoc is another (in)famous example. This is something we're researching at Ink & Switch, but will be hard to innovate here without OS-level support. Anyhow thanks for taking the time to kick the tires. I will happily take "Muse is awesome but could be more awesome" as validation of the work we've done so far, and motivation to keep improving. |
Thanks, that’s the spirit it was intended in. I’m looking forward to it.
Also, while I didn’t mind too much on iPad, I really need Dark Mode support on macOS - I have Dark Reader extension installed in every browser, dark mode in every text editor, and now basically every app I use has dark mode on macOS (except VPN apps, sigh…) but to get the most benefit here I have to expand this white Muse window to two thirds or more of my widescreen monitor and… it’s blindingly bright ;-)