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Re:Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad by setr on Thursday August 27, 2020 @04:40PM (#24298381)
Your main page is focused on content creation, but I think you're missing a key aspect of these kinds of tools -- content searching. Right now, it reads as: thoughts are messy, and your tool enables to think in that messy fashion.... and everything stays messy. My immediate concern is that I can trivially add data to the system, but I can't get it back out (both automatically, by export features, and manually, by navigating it)

Particularly, looking at https://launch-preview.museapp.com/handbook, the inbox/card mechanic seems worth pointing out, and boards/cards as your primary model of higher-level organization.

Also a question: the handbook says boards contain cards, and cards contain boards -- they can be organized as mutually recursive? That's cool. In fact, there are very few of these modern systems that properly let you recurse

Re:Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad by adamwiggins on Friday August 28, 2020 @09:39AM (#24304667)
You can search: https://museapp.com/handbook#to-search -- but you're right this isn't our main focus, the way it is for something like https://mymind.com/ . What we've seen from the year of beta testing is that our spatial memories are very powerful and even users with huge corpuses navigate rather than search.

Yes, boards and cards are a key abstraction. Boards are just a type of card that can contain other boards--think of boards like folders/directories on a filesystem.