Muse

Thanks Dan! Hope the Mac app is a good addition to your workflows as well.

Exciting to see innovation in the note-taking and brainstorming space. Too bad I've decided that the subscription model has got to go, so I'm not interested in using the 'free'…

Enlighten us! How are people that don't want to pay for software "their best customers"? GoodNotes is great, hope they can make the one-off payment model sustainable. But the…

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…

Much appreciated. Sharing the journey is a big part of what has made this project fulfilling. As another commenter pointing out, the Mac app alone is somewhat limited without the…

Very cool website, I can appreciate the effort that went into describing the features. I've been using Markdown-based tools for thought like Logseq and ObsidianMD, but have run…

I skimmed the article, but what makes Android not sufficient to interact with Muse? I haven’t tried Muse, but I’ve thought plenty about building a local-first notebook app for…

Any free alternatives?

Evernote is a good example of software that I think had a lot of promise but has decayed in quality and performance over time. No self-hosted sync service at the moment. At the…

I'm a big believer in tools that make us feel good about our work. Pretty handwriting as an output is in that category. You'd be surprised how much engineering goes into point…

Changing while you write sounds surprising. All ink engines have some amount of retroactive smoothing going on, but typically (and this is the same for Muse) it should only be…

It's freemium rather than a trial, so you can use it for free for as long as you want. (Assuming I'm understanding your request there.) It does export a Muse bundle which is a…

If Muse disappears tomorrow. Servers shut down and all. Would access to notes still work? I am not actually in fear of something happening that suddenly. I defended the general…

In that case you'd still have full access to your documents. In keeping with local-first values the complete and canonical dataset resides on your devices (Macs/iPads). Sync…

GoodNotes is great! More of a digital sketchbook (and better than Muse if you're focused purely on the inking/sketching part of things). On paying for software, here's some…

Yeah, truly an unsolved problem. Obsidian seems to have found a good path--free for the core product, $10/mo (standard price for prosumer apps) for sync. But we felt like sync is…

Obsidian is great, and they are similarly priced to us ($10/mo for sync). We felt that local-first sync is a core feature of the product, and to exclude free users from that…

Best bet here is web apps like https://kinopio.club/

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…