Muse — canvas for ideas

This is the app that I have needed for YEARS. I love the phone app as a place to brain dump, and then I spend 20 minutes at night organizing things in the desktop app. I feel like my ideas are not dying in my notes app, and are there to easily access and easily reinvigorate a project. I'm loving it so far. My only (very mild) complaint is that the text items are a little hard to move around, and I with there was a way to "snap to grid" when you have some items selected to get them lined up in a nice way. Overall, I love it!

So easy to use and works perfectly. Love the redesign.

Super frustrating if you accidentally swipe a card to the right and off the screen. It disappears forever and you need to start over!

I love muse for organizing notes, research, and thoughts on projects - it makes a fun and easy to use way of really engaging with documents and products. I’ve used it to replace all of my reading collection tools and get much more out of keeping things I want to learn organized with notes, snippets, videos, and whatever I want to add.

As someone with ADHD and an IQ of 134, I have many great but messy ideas I want to put in order and this should be the app to help me do so. I do love the concept; it's like it was meant for me, but it didn't work for me. It’s not intuitive, there should be a video tutorial on how to use, a guide for new users. There is no option for modifying the templates; ; if it's there, I couldn't find it, I even paid the pro version thinking it would be a pro feature. The "place one to three fingers to change tools" is amazing, but I could not make it work. I have more complains if you guy want to chat; I mean "ideas". Also I have an iPad mini 7, a MacBook Air 2020, and an iPhone 12 mini; Maybe I'm the problem and I need more powerful devices but I think it's a decent setup and only this app gives me problems.

Feels just strange that you cant do certain things like scroll to zoom in. I cant seem to think of a good reason for that but its so disorienting that I cant get used to using this at all.

I exported a PDF from Cardfile+ and the operation was seamless. My problem is I need a magnifying glass to read anything, except my title cards. This program has excellent example files included to help you get started, but most of this information cannot be zoomed large enough to be read. I think I would like this better than cardfile+ if the zoom feature was not so severely throttled. As it stands this program is worthless

I’m trying to be “pen first for note taking and that doesn’t work great with Muse. Implementing the official Apple ink integration and gestures would go a long way to improving the usability. Searching within a PDF would also be a huge improvement.

Everything needs pencil now.. why not just TOUCH!

Muse has become a critical app for my professional work flow and personal projects. No other app facilitates brainstorming and ideas quite the same way. The UX/UI is refined, intuitive, and so good I find myself trying Muse gestures in other apps wishing they worked there! The ability to bring content in, link content, write, ink, draw, and then organize all those thoughts is a remarkable facilitator to deep thinking that results in real creativity. This is an app I can’t live without!