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Infinite Canvas Student Project
- Markus created the Infinite Canvas app inspired by Scott McCloud's "Reinventing Comics" to enable interactive comics.
- Despite technology shifts killing many projects, some comics were actively made with his app.
Origins of MindNode App
- Markus was inspired by early Mac apps and decided to create MindNode in 2007 after exploring infinite canvas ideas.
- MindNode was born from discovering mind mapping as a way to refocus and build a single, useful tool.
Challenges Porting to iPhone
- The first iPhone version of MindNode faced severe hardware constraints like memory limits and limited text support.
- They had to create custom solutions and a unique sync process before iCloud eased cross-device data transfer.