36 // Text

Metamuse

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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Show notes

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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