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s are present and digest them before i could get comfortable enough with the reasoning to formalize it any app that does that will make me impose on myself a line of thinking that might not be the most appropriate it also generates in me a sense of hurry as if the software is pushing me to take decisions when i m not ready yet for instance most writing or note taking apps want you to order things linearly if you put an image in a word file this image will go before a paragraph and after another one same in evernote or apple notes or ulysses or what have you if a new item relates to two or more areas there s not easy way to have the item close to several other things at the same time in order to consider what is the most promising course of action some apps might offer the possibility of linking things together but when you inject a new item you still need to decide first where it needs to go conceptually as in in what box should you put it so you must decide in which group the new thing must go and it becomes part of a group you ve labelled it too late the only way i ve found to relate some things without connecting them logically or conceptually is to lay them out spatially this way the relation is one of proximity not of meaning powerpoint like apps let you do that but constrain you through the boundaries of the slide and strongly encourage you to play with visual flourishes that get in the way of understanding powerpoint and other apps like it are designed to help you produce a presentation an end product that you will hopefully present in front of an audience and every time you use the software all its affordances remind you of that end product of your audience creating again a sense of urgency hurry find what you want to say reordering slides linearly you can t help but wonder if the audience will get your point better but what if you don t know yet what your point is then you re just enforcing some random order creating a fake reasoning from thin air just because that s how the app wants you to structure your information all creative apps that are geared toward an end product share this trait they want to help you create original work but at the same time provide tools to finalize a product this tension creates stress that at least in me hinders thinking in those apps it is very difficult at the end of a work session to make clear that you think this item and that item are somewhat related and that other one too that you d like to investigate further this relation later but you re not yet sure what is going on exactly you have to clarify the logic somehow if you want future you to understand anything when you come back to the app a few days later so you invent some classification some logical relationship in urgency that is more formalized that is warranted future you then uses it as basis for some new work this reasoning made up in urgency orients the direction of future work lately new apps have been emerging that let you place items side by side on virtual whiteboards like scrintal heptabase the canvas plugins in obsidian or logseq etc in those apps you can organize items spatially my feeling however is that those apps focus on a totally different problem that what i m outlining here they encourage you to add tags and categories to items and link everything together as if your brain were a big database they want you to add details this approach which is clearly great if your goal is to organize information classify it and retrieve it later requires non insignificant administrative overhead meaning any new item you put in the base should earn its stay there as in the famous evergreen notes i don t feel this approach is well suited to on the fly just in time throwing together of items to enable understanding a slow realization so for a long time i had been looking for an app that would help me in the middle part of the process in situations of confusion where it is not clear what should be done and where to go i had tried a lot of apps that allow for text image organization but most constrained me to a linear organization of elements or brought too much focus on reaching some other goal presentation communication organization and retrieval of information muse had appeared on the scene several years ago and was apparently aimed just at my problem but it took me a really long time to realize that this was the app that could help me i had to fully commit to using it for at least several months before things clicked what muse does is provide a calm space where non rushed thinking can happen say i m working on a given study and i m wondering what is going on in a small fraction of the input data that behaves in surprising ways in muse a board can contain the current study and within it i can always create a clean empty sub board that suddenly fills the entire screen 1 in which i can throw every piece of evidence i have that is relevant to that sub study i have as much space as i need to add elements and quickly rearrange them spatially those are often images or tables i produced myself or that i extracted from a scientific article in pdf but can also be small pieces of text that can be placed wherever i can organize them in groups and connect them with inking making logical articulations observations conclusions in very little time i know what i can infer from the evidence i have and i know what to do next i can move this sub board where it makes sense on the parent board and annotate on top of it making this tiny part of the study well integrated within the larger context of the complete study a reference i can always get back to later if i want to work on the sub study again tomorrow i can create a linked card of its board essentially a second instance of the same board that i can place elsewhere for instance inside my home board for quick access on the home board i can draw on top of this second instance adding actionable information that is specific to that second context when work on that sub study is done i delete the instance from the home board like removing a document held by a magnet on a whiteboard and erase the ink like well erasing a whiteboard a new muse board on my mac it s even better full screen or on the ipad muse checks all the boxes i ve outlined above for the app that can handle the middle messy part of the work so why did it take so long for me to realize it was what i was looking for even while i was using it amongst the many apps that exist today muse looks decidedly low tech its number of features is quite limited and because of that most of what you do with it looks very rough you can create boards that look good the sample boards that can be glimpsed in some muse ad videos are sometimes very beautiful but to do so will require you to invest significant effort more effort than in other apps you could use to get to the same board as an end result but that s the mistake i made in muse as i now understand it the end result is not a good looking board like you see in the videos in muse the end result is insight once you get to that result in the best of cases you can actually throw the board away 2 you might want to make some boards look nice for instance because it s a board you think you ll be seeing for a while but even if you manage to create a pretty board then what your job description is not to make boards with most apps you can be shown examples of great creations that were done with them and this might motivate you to use the app so you can get the same great results i think that s what makes it harder than it should to realize muse s potential with muse the real output is not the board you ve made inside the app you can t be shown the real output you have to use it to see that it helps reaching insight part of one of my muse boards a huge mess it helps me reach clarity in many ways muse is like a paper notebook in a notebook you take rough notes they don t always look pretty you might have some affection for them because they are proof of your dedication but you won t be showing them around it s ok because the value of the notes is not in the notes as a product it is in what you ll be using the notes for in the insights they will reveal the decisions they will lead to the path of action they will enable muse is like that it s just a notebook you won t conceptually get out of it much more than what you d get from a paper notebook but it s an enhanced notebook it s a notebook in which you can write and draw but also paste images straight from your computer as many as you want and move them around in pages that can expand a hundred times a notebook in which a page can contain other pages in which a page can appear at different places a muse board when you look at it as a fixed frozen artifact is not very different from a large piece of paper with images and text glued on it doesn t look professional it s not going to blow anyone s socks off but that s not the point like a notebook a muse board is extra real estate for your mind it s optimized to be just that it houses living ongoing thoughts thoughts are not always pretty thoughts should lead to insights and action and disappear muse provides infinite space for your thinking to happen better than any other app i ve found this post was entirely written in a muse board among other things this allowed me to work on at least three parts of the text at once try to do that in word now that the post is published i m going to trash the board in muse everything is in focus mode by default there is no other mode ︎ i say in the best of cases because most of the time the insight you ve hit is not the final one so you d better hang on to the board for later ︎ posted in mac software technology tagged mac comments off on my path to muse evernote now posted on 2017 03 22 by vnoel back story for longer than i can remember i have adopted the position that 1 notes should be in ascii universal future proof small files and 2 markdown syntax should provide more than enough formatting for notes i managed my ascii markdown notes through a variable set of multi platform apps notational velocity simplenotes drafts textmate vesper etc sometimes tied through dropbox most of these notes once taken were never modified again or even looked at in more recent years i have felt the increasing need to intermingle words with pictures research figures mostly i ve found i need this for work and thinking iterating on projects meeting notes research notes travel notes etc the point was to get something like a lab notebook for this i have tried dropbox paper opaque organization google docs a big mess mindmeister apple notes not so bad curio omnioutliner etc and dedicated lab notebook apps like findings none really stuck sure i could do this in markdown but i could also do it in google sheets insert a screenshot in a word file and use the two hours i ve just saved to do something else onenote sideline the app that stuck most was onenote the free form aspect promised by onenote was so conceptually seducing that i agreed to put up with its worse aspects onenote s ux is very laggy mac ios every interaction has a huge transaction cost writing notes moving stuff around on the canvas moving around on the canvas switching notes sync is so slow that it discourages device switching on the fly forget starting a note on the iphone and picking it up on the mac at some point i had to re authenticate every time i opened the app slow sync made things even worse especially given that onenote s notebooks have to be opened and closed like files because of this there is no master list of notes because of the lag notebook switching is by itself a whole operation with several steps that i need to think through sometimes notebooks auto close behind my back and i have to hunt for them in onedrive which is confusing by itself i ve never liked onenote s note structure and organisation newest notes go down which i find confusing for this reason every time i create a note i feel like i need to review and revise the whole notebook organization meaning i immerse myself in lots of information that might not be relevant to what i m trying to do at that point there s very little context to notes no easy way to find creation update dates for notes or sort them by dates everything feels very heavy and immutable free form is a great concept but does not translate well to small phone screens you end up zooming and panning around trying to make sense of big blocks of text eventually you give up onenote on iphone except when you have to use it reluctantly because the info you want is in there do you want to share something from onenote well it s the whole notebook sections and all or nothing this might be fine for sharing classroom material not so much for meeting notes shared notes open in the web version of onenote which gets points for existing but not for much else it feels to me like onenote has its own text rendering engine or something similar text just looks different from any other app on ios which bothers me i have tried lots of fonts to fix this anyway i have issues with onenote apparently but i still used it because i just needed something to store text mixed with images and other stuff ppt or docs changing position a few months ago while thinking about this i realized what i could actually work with would be an app that let me edit word files i e formatted text images other with a note app interface master list view with maybe tags but i needed to see formatted text so i could think through it not markdown syntax once i got over the shock word files what have i become i then found myself going back to apps i had been using years ago and since then discarded macjournal day one devonthink yojimbo together etc i had been a fervent adept of such everything buckets apps in the past but only as containers of pdf never for text i would write myself because remember notes should be ascii only i was now coming back to them with fresh eyes from a revised position testing those apps proved the approach was what i needed but most of these apps did not provide sync or ios apps and were not really fun i ended up going all the way back to one of the first apps i ve ever tried i e evernote apparently i created an evernote account in december 2008 6 months after it came out of private beta but i never really used it i had always put evernote in the same everything buckets group but i had always found the app weird and alien most of the links still work evernote after using it for a few days it quickly transpired that evernote is just fucking great i moved my onenote archives to evernote slowly at first as i was trying to avoid going over the upload quota then in bigger batches as i realized how great the thing was and it dawned on me i would end up getting a paid account my experiment happened just after the launch of the ios v8 app so i don t really know how things were before that v7 sure looked confusing thoug...