Tom Giannattasio

Clover - A creative workspace with notes, whiteboards, tasks, & more

Clover is a creative workspace with notes, whiteboarding, todos, and a daily planner. It combines the power of a text editor with the flexibility of a whiteboard for spatial note-taking, brainstorming, presentations, diagramming, wireframes, and more.

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Tom Giannattasio
Hey Product Hunt! Last year we posted a teaser about some of the things we were working on. Since then, thousands of you have joined our private beta and have been helping us shape the product. Today we're excited to open Clover Beta to everyone! Clover is a workspace that combines traditional productivity tools with creative thinking tools. It includes notes, whiteboarding, todos, and a daily planner. We built it because we found ourselves brainstorming in one tool, recording notes in another, and planning in yet another. Eventually our ideas were fragmented across so many tools that we didn't know where they were. We wanted something simpler, faster, and more flexible. At the core of Clover is a new type of document called a Surface. It combines the power of a modern text editor with the flexibility of a whiteboard (think Dropbox Paper meets Figjam). Its spatial workflow enables better brainstorming, enhanced memory, and intuitive organization. It's also pretty fun! Here are some other notable features: Robust Text Capabilities - Markdown formatting, code blocks with syntax highlighting, inline task features, slash inserter, dynamic references, and much more. Daily Notes - A doc per day to take notes, log journal entries, and plan work with due dates and automatic task rollover. Backlinking - Network your ideas together. Link to other pages or deep link to specific blocks and Clover will automatically add backlinks to connect the pages. Inline Tasks - Add todos within your notes for simple and intuitive task management. Add due dates and tasks will show up on your Daily Notes. Use color-coding to call out priorities. Presentations - Draw frames around important parts of your Surface. Hit play and present your frames as a slideshow. Embeds - Interactive embeds – YouTube, Figma, SoundCloud, and more. Sketching - Add wireframes, notations, and sketches right on top of your notes. There's also Apple Pencil support. Real-time collaboration - Share pages with guests and collaborate with them on the same Surface in real-time. Templates - Get started quickly with some useful templates based on popular productivity and creativity methodologies (eg, Eisenhower Box, Crazy Eights). Quick Note - Record a note or task from anywhere. You can even tell it what day you’d like the note added to using plain language. Customization - Build your own theme with intuitive controls for light / dark mode, chroma adjustments, sidebar shade / tint, and highlight colors. Full-text search - Search the text within all your pages to quickly jump directly to a specific block. We're hard at work on rounding out the tool. Here are a few things we're currently working on: - Tags - Tables - Import / Export - Android and Firefox support - A few surprises! We hope you'll give it a try and we'd love to hear what you think!
Joseph Abraham
@attasi : Love this Tom. @arun_josephk you will truly love this. I believe this will make design collaboration a breeze. Right now we use Miro but we might just shift here 🌟
Tom Giannattasio
@arun_josephk @saascoach Thanks! We still have a lot to build for teams, but would love to hear from you about what you need.
Joseph Abraham
@arun_josephk @attasi : Our use case is 1. Storyboarding for videos 2. Image revisions for our SaaS magazine 3. Layout revisions for our SaaS magazine 4. Storyboarding, getting approvals from sponsor around images/videos and copy So for its both internal collaborators and guest collaborators, trust this gives a sneak peak 😀
Arun Joseph
@attasi @saascoach This looks great! lets try it out!
Tom Lucido
@attasi Used it and enjoyed. Surfaces were great for outlining articles, conceptualizing processes, and tracking tasks.
Aditya
?makers Congratulations on the launch! It has been 11 months since the alpha launch, and I can already see such phenomenal progress :) What all integrations are possible with Clover, like for design, marketing, analytics etc? Would also love to know how PH community feedback helped you, and which feature is a result of the feedback? 😍
Tom Giannattasio
@adityavsc Many things were influenced by the PH community. We met a number of passionate folks here in the comments who joined our advisory group and chatted with us on a weekly – sometimes daily – basis. A few notable suggestions that came directly from the community: code blocks with syntax highlighting, copy as markdown, the UI for Daily Notes, inline page creation, and task rollover. Thanks for the help everyone! 🙌
Aditya
@attasi thanks to YOU and the team for working on the feedback and launching the beta version. #JustShipIt
Aaron Epstein
I’ve been using Clover in beta for the last few months, and it quickly became my daily note taking and organization tool. It’s got everything you’d expect, and a bunch that you wouldn’t: freeform drawing, infinite canvas, presentation mode and a lot more. Highly recommended!
Tom Giannattasio
@aaron_epstein Thanks Aaron. Your feedback along the way has been super helpful!
Scott Hanford
It sounds like this is exactly what I need. Can't wait to try it out!
Tom Giannattasio
@scott_hanford 🙌 Thanks Scott!
Mike Dick
Anything this team builds is world-class execution. Jotting down my ideas and tracking them across my team has become much more natural ever since joining Clover! Thanks Tom & Team for creating such a great product.
Tom Giannattasio
@michaeldick Aww shucks, Mike. Thanks!
Raphael Allstadt
Clean! Very nice!
Tom Giannattasio
@raphael_allstadt 😎 Thanks Raphael!
Daryll Wong
Love this, this looks really sleek and well built!
Tom Giannattasio
@daryllman Thank Daryll, be sure to send us some feedback!
Jaganathan R
Looks Cool!
Tom Giannattasio
@jagan612 Thanks! We hope you’ll give it a try and let us know what you think
Sergey Voynov
Looks nice! Very friendly UI.
Tom Giannattasio
@sergey_voynov Thanks Sergey, we've been working hard to simplify as much as we can.
Marty Ringlein
Thank you ... finally! So many tools out there trying to get me to stop just using the Notes app and this was exactly the experience I've been waiting for to manage all of the ideas from zero-to-one.
Tom Giannattasio
@smarty Thanks Marty! Hope we can get you off of Notes for good.
Alan Cassinelli
Love the hype video, really well done. Who helped make it? Would love a referral
Tom Giannattasio
@alancassinelli Our pal Joe made the video for us. You can learn more about his work here: https://www.joeski.com/. He's awesome!
Mohamed Abedelmalik
This seems so cool! Congrats on the launch. I'm excited to give it a try!
Tom Giannattasio
@mohamed_abedelmalik Thanks! Let us know what you think of it!
Sean Bunton
Excellent product, well thought out and beautifully designed.
Tom Giannattasio
@seanbunton Appreciate that, Sean! We're doing our best to keep it clean as we add more features.
Nic Rodriquez
This seems to handle all the things I want to see my tasks, organize them and execute.. looking forward to trying this out!
Tom Giannattasio
@nicolas_rodriquez Please do and let us know what else you need! Thanks Nic.
Jessica Meher
Nice work guys! Cant wait to try this.
Tom Giannattasio
@jessicameher Thanks Jessica! Let us know what you think!
Stowe Boyd
I plan a review of Clover at workings.substack.com. Very promising.
Tom Giannattasio
@stowe_boyd sounds great, Stowe! Let us know if you need anything!
Bilal Chaglani
Clean and beautifully designed! I like it 🙌
Mayuresh Patole
This looks amazing! Looking forward to trying it out
MHD Aman
Good Product
Max Ziel
Been a beta tester. Great product - basically replaced 3 other productivity tools for me. Would be great to get a clearer understanding of the security and privacy of the app from the makers?
Tom Giannattasio
@max_ziel Thanks for helping us test, Max! We added an FAQ page to our site recently to help answer some of your questions re: security / privacy. Here's a link: https://cloverapp.com/faqs. Let us know if you have more questions!