100$? way too expensive for what it does.

Hey Product Hunt 👋🏼 Muse began life in a research lab called Ink & Switch, where my colleagues and I were researching the future of computing for creativity and productivity. We dug into the question of whether a touchscreen interface can be a fast, powerful tool for serious work. Muse spun out of the lab as a commercial product last summer, then spent a year in beta. Now it's ready for you to try out! 🚀 A founding insight for Muse is that deep thinking happens away from the computer. That could be in a paper sketchbook, on a whiteboard, or just in your head. There are some up-and-coming tools for thought like Notion and Roam but they’re for desktop/laptop computers and primarily focused on text. We saw an opportunity for a thinking tool that blends together visual media, text, spatial navigation all made for the iPad and Pencil. We’re charging $100/year, comparable to other prosumer tools like Dropbox. You can try for free as long as you want and export all your data in PDF/PNG/TXT files at any time. We're a small team (five people) and trying to build the business on customer revenue instead of VC funding. Download on your iPad: https://museapp.com/download Follow development on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MuseAppHQ Listen to Mark and I talk shop on our podcast: https://museapp.com/podcast Delighted to answer your questions in the comments here. ❤️

This is pretty cool! Reminds me of https://darkblueheaven.com/spati... I'm a heavy Notion and Roam user and like how Muse focuses more on unstructured content and scribbling. Would be great to find a way to turn Muse "scribbles" into structured content, too. Any plans for adding something like a "backlink" functionality that many of the current tools are introducing to structure knowledge? Or would that go against your use case?

This is an amazingly great product. I have been in the beta for months and subscribed to the product in the first week of use. I'm an iPad first user and Muse reminds me of how the iPad should have always worked. As I've gone through a personal productivity theme for 2020, Muse has become the cornerstone of my practice. I use it for my bullet journal, I use it for my slipbox, my mood boards, my pdf research tool, my whiteboard, my sketch book and sketch notes & anything else I can imagine. In a year when a lot of people went crazy over organizing their information via mouse and keyboard (Notion/Roam), I find it incredibly refreshing to get all the benefits of a digital tool, while manipulating the information with my hands as if I'm using pen, paper and an infinitely large desk. A final note that every interaction and animation in the app is incredibly thoughtful & I believe best in class for an iPad Pro Pencil experience.

Congratulations on the launch! Ever since the release of the original iPad I've periodically tried to get it to fill this role in my life. Unfortunately, it's never really worked out. During idea generation I'm usually either out on a walk, where the only tools available are my brain and a small notepad, or at a computer with its powerful suite of organization and research tools. I've not yet found any tools on the iPad that have proven valuable enough to lug around the technology. Given the talent and thoughtfulness of the folks involved with Muse I'm excited to give it a shot. I'm curious about the opportunity for collaboration with Muse. With more and more folks working remotely these days the need for a "virtual whiteboard" seems greater than ever. Can you manipulate the same content live with other users?

I've been testing Muse for a little less than a year and I have to say its probably the best piece of iPad software I've encountered — the attention to detail in the design and execution is phenomenal. Muse enables in-flow thinking that I think is rarely achieved in computer mediated work and feels a lot more like working through notes and ideas on a desk.

Congrats @hirodusk and the entire Muse team! I'm a paid member -- because I want products like this to exist. I think back fondly to Omnigraffle and similar pro Mac tools. Since I do a lot of sourcing on my phone, the "share mode" available on the iPhone app works well for me. I can sit down and process and think about what I've gathered. I also love the focus on files, and I'm looking forward to experimenting with Muse bundles in interesting ways.

Hope to see a Mac version.

I’ve been using this for a few months now and I’m really enjoying the thoughtful interaction design and the way it can aggregate a whole range of content types into one canvas.

Looks amazing and to me, the bility to bring in notes, images, pdfs etc and ink ANYWHERE without being constrained to specific zones/rules, is what the iPad should have offered from the outset of the Apple Pencil introduction

This product is insane. It's a butter smooth and beautiful to use. Lots of potential for the future. Easiest $100 software decision I've ever made.

This app is so well-designed, it's the only app the makes me consider to an apple product recently. Hope to see it on other devices soon.

Cool!

Looks amazing and super resourceful, can't wait to try this product on my iPad :)

This is truly brilliant! It's really well done and I love it so far. A few notes: - I see my inbox data in iCloud but what about everything else? Where in the filesystem can I access my data? Data ownership and portability are paramount for professional work. - Will portrait be supported? It's sort of strange that it's not right now. - Additionally do you plan to allow the work space to be extended in any direction? - Pencil tools are a bit limited. Of particular interest would be the ability to auto-correct shapes like you see in traditional note-taking apps. - Omnigraffle style stencils could be interesting. I have no problem with the price. I think it's fair. However I'm hesitant to jump on board without knowing that I can access the underlying data in some kind of portable format.

excellent demo.