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Muse is a canvas for thinking that helps you get clarity on things that matter.
3.0 is launching today with collaborative workspaces, search, board zoom, and more—our biggest update ever.
museapp.com/memos/2023-09-mu…
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Our team has been working on the design and engineering of Muse 2.0 for over a year.
Today we’re delighted to unveil the beta: museapp.com/memos/2022-03-mu…
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🚀 Infinite canvas: tools that work the way we think.
infinitecanvas.tools/
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Muse is your tool for thought on iPad.
Launching today: museapp.com
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We’ve been hard at work on something special for you.
Read our vision for Muse as a medium for thought: museapp.com/memos/2021-11-ro…
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Muse for Mac (beta) is coming after the holidays.
In the meantime, here’s some of the basic functionality so far:
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We’re excited!
Muse 2.0 is launching on May 24. 🚀
Over the coming 20 days, we’ll share a bit about the past, present, and future of Muse.
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Good morning everyone, it’s launch day!
Come say hello on Product Hunt: producthunt.com/posts/muse-2…
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Muse gives you an open canvas of infinitely nested boards.
Every new board is a wide open playground for your ideas, nesting and expanding organically with your nonlinear trails of thought.
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Muse is a tool for the thinking work that you do before production work begins.
Here are some of the principles we used in designing it.
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Muse for Teams aspires to be the best place for your team to think collaboratively.
Coming soon →
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✨ 2.2 is out with board overview!
Zoom out to get a bird’s eye view on large boards using the overview button on iPad or the ⌘+O shortcut.
Tap or click anywhere to zoom to that spot on the board.
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The creative process begins with raw inputs. And ends with a production output.
Muse is for the messy middle: active thinking.
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Hello everyone, today marks an end and a beginning. Muse is downsizing to a solo operation in order to reach sustainability.
Longtime team member @AdamWulf will take the reins. He’ll be continuing to develop Muse 3.0 and beyond.
Details here: museapp.com/end-and-beginnin…
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✨ Muse 2.2.2 is out!
We removed automatic board resizing. Your boards will no longer expand or shrink with its content, and you can resize them freely to any aspect ratio.
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~~ Linked cards preview ~~
Add a linked card, then move it elsewhere in your board hierarchy.
The original and the added card are identical, besides their location and size. Any edits to one will reflect in the other.
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🚀 Muse 1.5
• Flex boards can grow wide, tall, or both.
• Enjoy portrait orientation.
museapp.com/memos/2021-03-fl…
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Muse is an active thinking workspace, not a long-term memory enhancer.
Bring in notes from your second-brain app such as Evernote, Roam, or Obsidian. Grab only what you need for your current focus, ignore the rest.
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The Muse team is growing!
We’re seeking an engineer to help build our local-first sync backend.
Relevant skills: Go, CRDTs, websockets, Postgres
museapp.com/jobs/local-first…
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~~ New beta: text blocks ~~
Type directly onto your board with Notion-inspired text blocks.
Available now to all Pro members. Read about it in the beta manual: museapp.com/betas/text-block…
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What does the term “infinite canvas” mean to you?
We have a little something to share with you tomorrow—what this term means to our team, and the wider community of emerging infinite canvas tools.
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A small new feature we hid in Muse 2: Copy & paste any board into another app to get a deep link. It’s really useful for connecting your work in Muse to the rest of your workflow.
(Bonus tip: Use Shortcuts to open the URL straight from your home screen)
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Metamuse 46 // Industrial research
museapp.com/podcast/46-indus…
With @pvh of @inkandswitch
• Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, and “DARPA hard”
• Funding independent research via spinouts
• The Ink & Switch essay format
• Mendel, Thoreau, and Arrakis
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~ Infinite canvas beta ~
Boards can be any aspect ratio, based on the size of their contents.
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Metamuse 48 // Rich text
museapp.com/podcast/48-rich-…
With @sliminality
• What prose, equations, and sheet music have in common
• How block-based text editors have changed our understanding of rich text
• Pandoc, MathJax, and Svgbob
• Choosing a wagon in Oregon Trail
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(3) Drag cards out
In this example, dragging text and images into @craftdocs.
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Metamuse 37 // Visual programming
museapp.com/podcast/37-visua…
With @mappletons
• Scratch, iOS Shortcuts, Zapier, LabVIEW
• Embodied metaphors — because we all have a body
• The false duality of artistic vs logical thinkers
• Hacker News folk wisdom
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Muse for Teams is your collaborative canvas for planning and strategy.
Now in open beta: museapp.com/teams/
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Metamuse 41 // Local-first software
museapp.com/podcast/41-local…
With @martinkl
• Why data ownership matters for creative work
• The economic implications of local-first
• Imagining a CRDT-based file system
• Bug reports as a source of research questions
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When writing an article draft, do you ever find yourself uncertain where a section should go?
Text blocks on your Muse boards adds a horizontal dimension to text editing.
Put ideas off to the side or arrange in clusters—no more forced linearity.
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We’re seeking an extraordinary person to help tell the Muse story through visual brand, web design, and writing.
Join us: museapp.com/jobs/designer-st…
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Many of us bought a tablet hoping to use it for creative work and instead find ourselves using it only for media consumption.
But with the right software, iPad can be the perfect device for relaxed thinking, annotating, and brainstorming.
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Text blocks is an experiment to bring long-form text into the spatial model of Muse.
Motivations and inspiration: museapp.com/memos/2021-08-te…
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New release out now for Muse 2.0 beta testers!
Updates include text blocks on Mac, a refreshed sync indicator, and the ability to edit titles from the context menu.
Plus many, many fixes based on your bug reports over the last few weeks.
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Hello all, it’s 3.0 launch day! 🚀
We’d love your support on Product Hunt: producthunt.com/posts/muse-3…
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In the internet age, your creative inputs are far more than just plaintext.
Web links, photos, videos, screenshots, PDFs, tweets — all of these exist as cards on your Muse boards.
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We’re experimenting with making Muse multiplayer.
Starting from principles on developing ideas in groups: museapp.com/memos/2022-11-gr…
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Metamuse 42 // Self-made tools
museapp.com/podcast/42-self-…
With @thesephist
• Building a personal software ecosystem
• Tools as a reflection of your values
• Packaging software with Docker, CodePen, Replit, and Deno
• Can a piece of software be “done”?
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Coming this Wednesday: something a little different from the Muse team.
It’s a glimpse into the lives and work of inspiring creators through the medium of film.
Enjoy these teaser images.
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✨ Muse 2.0.10
• Undo and redo even after navigating to another board. Each board now keeps its own undo history.
• No longer using Muse? Delete your account and all data via Preferences (Mac) or Settings (iPad).
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🚀 Linked cards are now available as a beta to all Pro members
Update to 2.1 and check your Backstage Pass. We’re excited to see how you use it!
Read the memo here: museapp.com/memos/2022-09-li…
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🚀 Muse 1.5.6 — introducing the presenter pen.
It creates temporary ink which you can use to draw attention to something on your board.
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Muse 2 will include text blocks, a way of typing directly onto your boards.
Combining the joy of visual thinking with the efficiency of linear text editing, Muse lets you express the full richness of your ideas and make creative leaps.
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Metamuse 67 // Dynamic documents
museapp.com/podcast/67-dynam…
With @mschoening and @geoffreylitt
• Data detectors, live searches, and language models
• The beauty of personal microformats
• The @inkandswitch research process
• Why Stable Diffusion is like a slot machine
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Want more space on your Muse boards?
Help us beta test an infinite canvas: museapp.com/memos/2020-12-in…
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But we want to draw attention to the many smaller and more interesting apps in this space, Muse included. Check out these apps we’ve collected in the gallery: infinitecanvas.tools/gallery…
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Tap or pinch to zoom into that spot on the board.
You can use it like a mini-map: zoom out, scan the territory, zoom back in again.
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📖 Your guides to Muse: the new Mac handbook...
museapp.com/handbook/mac/
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The Muse team has been quiet lately because we've been heads-down finishing some big new features.
Coming soon…
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✓ Focused productivity
✓ Write spatially
✓ Fast and offline-capable
✓ Relaxed thinking
Everything new in Muse 2.0: museapp.com/memos/2022-05-di…
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Metamuse 59 // Infinite canvases
museapp.com/podcast/59-infin…
With @steveruizok of @tldraw
• Canvas as the ultimate document format
• “Infinite” in the sense of possibilities rather than space
• A sense of place for multiuser collaboration
• Smash that fork button
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Desktop computers are for focused productivity, heavy research, and bulk editing.
Muse for Mac takes advantage of these properties—while still following the open canvas model and core design principles of Muse for iPad.
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Muse is now more affordable:
• Introducing a Starter membership for $3.99 per month
• The existing Pro membership now has a monthly option
Both come with the good vibes of supporting an independent company in the tools-for-thought space.
museapp.com/pricing
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Metamuse 27 // Playful software
museapp.com/podcast/27-playf…
With @rsms of @playbit_
• Virtualization to create safe playspaces
• Will macOS still exist in ten years?
• The typography of pizza parlors
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🚀 Muse 1.3, now with customizable toolkits.
Philosophy and design inspiration: museapp.com/memos/2020-09-to…
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The magic of Muse is its simplicity. The inbox makes it easy to move cards between boards:
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Muse can keep your boards as long as you want them.
But you can also export a PNG or PDF for storage in Dropbox, Notion, or anyplace you want to keep a long-term archive of your thinking session.
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Tomorrow, we’re releasing the pilot episode of a new documentary film series.
At Muse we’re fascinated by the creative process. Through our support channel, we often get to to hear the inside story of how designers, architects, writers, founders, and others do what they do.
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iPadOS 15 comes out today.
Tap the center top of your iPad's screen for multiwindow tools.
The Shelf (bottom center) allows you to quickly switch between open Muse windows, each of which can be on a different board.
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✨ Muse 2.3 is out!
• Linked cards now available to everyone
• New beta for Pro members: text block headings and colors
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