36 // Text

Text blocks are a new beta feature for Muse. Mark and Adam use the opportunity to discuss the origins and philosophy of text in computing, including text as a datum in environments like wikis, REPLs, and social media; the writing workflow of collapsing spatially-arranged ideas down to a linear text buffer; and company memo culture. And Mark shares his vision for how the Pencil could become the X-Acto knife for fast text editing on a tablet. Discuss this episode in the Muse community Follow @MuseAppHQ on Twitter Show notes Review Metamuse on Apple Podcasts Podstatus Cortex, Accidental Tech Podcast “going viral slowly” text blocks beta manual and memo Notion, Roam, Craft plain text ASCII art logograms The Humane Representation of Thought William Playfair Literature & Latte, Scrivener, Scapple terminal, REPL Man-Computer Symbiosis TTY = teletype Roam backlinks and knowledge graph view source Sublime Text Twitter was 140 characters for SMS episode about iPad emacs Org Mode, WorkFlowy Miro, FigJam, GoodNotes uncanny valley IPython, Jupyter Markdown Atlassian’s wiki “turn my ideas into our ideas” responsive design folio keyboard, Magic Keyboard iOS voice input Scribble infinite canvas beta → flex boards kill your darlings