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Elicit | San Francisco + remote | https://elicit.com/careers Elicit is an AI research assistant that uses language models to help researchers figure out what’s true and make better…

I'll join the chorus here and say that Turbo Pascal was my stepping stone from beginner tinkering (BASIC on Apple II and DOS) to professional development with C. The dev environmen…

Our team's experience has been the exact opposite: Catalyst let us create a beautiful, fully-native Mac app[1] that shares the bulk of its code with its iPad counterpart. A few bum…

Heroku pivoted from an online code editor (or "FileMaker Pro for the web") to a git-based development platform. https://www.slideshare.net/adamwiggins/epic-pivot

Ok, fair critiques. We obviously see many things differently (e.g. software being static vs requiring maintenance) so probably not much value in arguing further. But in /r/changemy…

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 servic…

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 the …

In a word, latency. Everything feeling responsive and tactile is a part of the (tablet part) of the Muse experience. You can see the latency tests for various tablets in a table pa…

Also on the (very long) list of things we want to build. It's more challenging design- and technology-wise than you might imagine, due to the canvas model and relatively arbitrary …

I'll add to Wulf's note that we on the team are privacy-conscious, listen to us talk about it here: https://museapp.com/podcast/18-privacy/ We designed the architecture to allow fu…

Indeed. Victor's work is the gateway drug to tools-for-thought; it certainly was for me. Read at your own peril, the rabbit hole goes very deep :-)

Yes, we're curious to see how pure desktop usage evolves. A big part of the whole "thinking workspace" concept is the more relaxed posture of tablet use, the ability to scribble on…

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 d…

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 i…

We researched the name heavily as part of registering our trademark. There are hundreds of hardware/software/internet products and services that use the word "muse" in their name s…

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 simp…

Text formatting (possibly Markdown) for sure. Code highlighting is something I would personally like but depends on how many software engineers decide to become members. Latex is p…

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

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 mom…

> if I stop paying for sync, I still have my notes and a fully functional product The same is true for Muse. When your membership expires (or you cancel it) the app reverts to free…

> local-first sync can easily support multiple schemes and let old versions run without overhead to devs I'd love that. Ink & Switch has done extensive research on how to enable th…

A core concept is the idea that creative professionals live a multi-device life. Desktop computer for focused productivity, tablet for relaxed reading and thinking, phone for captu…

I get your metaphor, but I think it falls down because "write once, deploy anywhere" was a slogan for Java and it never really fulfilled that promise. And yes, like anything in lif…