So Muse is a new ipad friendly application designed to be your new workspace
it markets itself as a tool for fort and there's a
Spatula canvas for your research notes reading sketches screenshots and bookmarks today
We are diving into muse as we do an early look review
This application is out in a while
But has not been out there for too long
And as a beta tester i've been playing around with it for a few weeks
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So let's start with the premise behind muse so it aims to steer away from notion
And wiki tools and leave a more open canvas playground for your notes and documents
You can create cards inside of muse anything from pdf cards to
Checklists and to organize everything use what's called boards
Which we all know and love to folderize or projectize everything
There's an action bar below that helps you to access all the goodies and they state that they believe tools
We are currently using have limits to creativity
So they've made navigation one of the easiest elements of this
You can use muse using your hand on the ipad or use an apple pencil that is connected to it
And they do believe muse is going to be your 3d digital garden. So let's take a look at some of the features
so as I said, it's available for ipad uses the apple pencil and has some
newer ios 14 features features include
Crafting boards now. Let me bring together a board for dream garden shed with you guys
As you can see there it's very creative what I quite like about it is the gestures and animation
Are really easy to use although they do seem to take a little bit of time to learn from the guidebook
It's definitely an enjoyable experience for sure
But something to note here while the design is minimal the features work
Well, it doesn't really blow you as way as much as you can think
So let's take a look at pricing one of the things that doesn't make it better is the 99 pound
99 sorry per year price tag
This is something a little wild in terms of pricing, but I guess with those who invested in the ipad
This could be a reliable hub. I just can't take myself away from the pricing as tools like good notes and notability
Offer similar experiences at different prices, but obviously much better prices now in terms of the usability
The tool was actually fast and easy to use I didn't actually have any hiccups or delay as I said
There's a slight learning curve when you're getting started
But I guess I solved that within 20 minutes of use it now works with their magic keyboard
Which is definitely something if you've got the accessory that goes a long way
It's actually quite fun to use but doesn't feel as fun as notion is to organize
two features that sort of
Really impressed me was the inbox feature which is where you can actually drag a card
To the side and sort of capture it for there so you can move them into other boards for later
And I also like how they exported the pdfs or any of the canvases you created no matter how the size
As bundles which was quite cool. So that's handy if you're sharing them with other people
So let's take a little bit of a look at the facts and information
So this actually launched on august 27th of this year and the developers included
Five major folk and they're all from decent company backgrounds
And even stripe ceo patrick actually tweeted out a few days after launch
So if you're looking at competitors
So initially, I thought the competitors would be melee note and notion
But miele note still doesn't have a native ipad application
But i'm probably thinking goodnotes is more of a competitor
but goodnotes does have document management better sketching and a cheaper price of
7.99 one off now. What I would say is it doesn't look as good as good notes. Despite the name
But it's a good note style ipad application trying to compete with miele notes
Now I definitely think muse has got its place in the market
I just think it's still a little bit early in terms of application
So i'm going to give you a bit of a rundown of what the rating is
So for design, I gave it a strong 9 out of 10. For features. I gave it a 4 out of 10
I do think it should have some more features. Although I guess some of the feature sets are growing seeing as its early days
The pricing I would say is a five out of ten
so it definitely takes a dent with the features and the pricing in terms of
Usability though i'd give that a nine out of ten because the gestures and navigations
Were really gorgeous
And my own opinion still early days for this application
But the pricing and features do let it down. So I gave it a 6 out of 10
now putting that through the calculator we gave that a
6.6. Which if you go on imdb
is incomparable
To jurassic park 2 the lost world, which is a good movie
But if you're just putting on a sunday afternoon, it's probably a good one there
So still a long way to go in my opinion
But definitely something that looks good and i'm sure in time will grow so folks. Hopefully enjoyed this view of muse as I said
It's been out for a little bit of time, but you can check out all the links in the description
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