Re:Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad
by dhandel on Friday August 28, 2020 @08:16AM
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What are the key differentiators of Muse vs. https://www.liquidtext.net/?
Re:Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad
by agambrahma on Thursday August 27, 2020 @05:21PM
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Wanted to chime in and "+1" the Tinderbox recommendation, and add that it's a bit less suited for heavy images being pasted in and edited, and more towards textual content -- but it more than makes up by offering combinations of layout, nesting, composition and "programmable" operations on these textual nodes.
Tinderbox (https://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/) is a great comparison—they have a different design aesthetic, cost a bit more ($249 one-time), but similar use case of deep knowledge work and thinking.
Endless Paper (https://www.endlesspaper.app/) is a sketching/drawing app, so not very similar to Muse.
On the infinite canvas point: this is one of the things we researched in the lab. Our studies revealed that it sounds nice, but in practice it's incredibly disorienting because you have no sense of scale. That's why we have a discretely-zooming interface; the difference is subtle but critical for high-speed thinking working.