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.
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- 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
