mysc. is a fun yet powerful tool designed to create, collect, organize and showcase miscellaneous things in daily life that we value but are hard to fit into categories defined by others.
@marouane_n Sure, that's something you can do with mysc. Time is one domain available to organize your thoughts. Consider mysc. as a private Slack group for all your interests plus a scratchpad to drop anything before moving it to a certain channel. And you can publish them like Github repos if you want to share your work with your communities.
@marouane_n Thanks! Any thought or suggestion is welcome!
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Very nice simple and clean design. Congratulations on your launch.
Just trying to understand where will it fit? It can’t replace Dayone as my journal. Don’t understand so big margin left on right of the thoughts page. Would love to know some of the places you use and how it can help me with the discovery as problem with many of todays journal is store and forget and lots of good memories buried in the pile. I don’t see Search as well. Any plan for more data integration like location etc?
First of all, THANK YOU for the effort you put into trying mysc. @nilsej I've been waiting for these questions throughout the day! Let me answer them one by one.
As a creative tool, mysc. is designed especially for people who constantly drop short and segmented content from their mobile devices. And as you mentioned, the biggest problem with any kinds of consumer databse Apps (i.e., journal/clipper/memo/note) is the more you save the more you lost. We have a ton of mechanisms in place to make sure that won't be the case with mysc., name a few:
1. You know those memories generated by Apple or Google Photos? We curate similar recap capsules for you automatically when cetain amount of cards have been created.
2. Creating is searching in mysc. It constantly perform searching while you typing and always have a list of related cards ready one tap away so you can discover some forgotten thoughts with simialr topics.
3. See that feature called moments revisited? It may seem a minor feature ATM but it's essentially a tiktok of YOUR content with smart suggestion algorithm. Only yours! So the more cards you have, the better experience you will have with this feature.
4. We have a thought lifecycle mechanism to alert you any cards that have been left in Thoughts since creation for a certain period of time (which you can customize), and move them to Recycle bin after their expiration dates are reached.
@nilsej As a publish tool, mysc. is a great tool to create personal sites dedicated to certain topics and for a small audience. It serves as a hybrid of Twitter and Medium. Any archive can be published as a website with one tap, added to your profiles(just like a Github repo) and accessed from browser. Check out this one dedicated to cooking experiment made by our user: https://www.mysc.app/app/share/2...
And as I mentioned. There's no content feed, and you can fine-grained control who can access to what.
I love Day One (tho gotta say its UI is getting clumsy after years). IMO, journal is a very specific way of data-logging where the look or format matters. We will try to win you over 😁 for that specific use case with better template that can offer those formats in the future (plus many other existing features mentioned above). For now, keep putting down thoughts wherever you feel comfortable!
Also, the location integration is already in place for the next update. I'm using it right now lol
@nilsej And the margin is designed for better experience of dragging cards, especially with one hand.
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@paperthattowel Thanks for all the in depth replies which shows your passion for this I see some real potential but one of the biggest challenges for you will be communicating the usecase. One more thing I felt while using this app is fear of loss this mostly happens when you don't feel comfortable in how I will retrieve the ton of info I am giving to the app when needed! And Yes Frepo seems an exciting product...
@nilsej As a long-time Verge reader, I really admire their emphasis on transparency and try to achieve the same with our product. And you are absolutely right both on communicating use cases and retrieving data. We believe in the value of data and want to help more people realize the value of theirs. Having a robust export mechanism is one of the top priorities and challenges right now. Just follow you on Twitter and I'll keep you updated on any major improvements we make to mysc.
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Looks super interesting! I think DAM's are the future! they have some of the worst legacy software out there so nice to see something fresh. The way the website showcases the product is a little confusing however, It's hard to get a sense of how the data is organized from the UI. Is it tags? Is it folders/cards? Is it pages? Also appreciate the privacy focus but i'm curious how that jives with your TOS: "mysc. reserves the right to delete or disable content alleged to be infringing the intellectual property rights of others, and to terminate accounts of repeat infringers." this sort of stuff worries me, you mention that the content stays on your device but it seems you have the ability to remove it as well / inspect it?
@puppycodes Absolutely love the thoughtful comment and real interest you have toward mysc. These are great questions, let me explain them in two parts.
First about privacy and our TOS. A user can use mysc. without an account and have everything stored offline. Nobody can poke around or do content moderation on those data except the owner, PERIOD. The offline experience will be the founding stone of our product and will be improved with new features constantly. To users who want to have cloud sync and multi-device support, they have to create accounts and stored data on our server (for now). In this situation, we will do content moderation in an iCloud fashion. There's another case where a user decides to make an Archive open to the public (or invite-only), we will put a closer eye on this and deal with it in a more platform-like way.
Then comes the information hierarchy part. All data is stored in 'cards' where you can fit any format of data (text, recording, video, etc) in one. Any card created will first be added to Thoughts(as its name may suggest, it's a draft pile for any cards) and later be moved to an Archive (folder, in other words) where cards are formed into a thread according to their created time. One can add tags to a card for Archive-level filtering. Under an archive, one may select multiple cards and create a "capsule" with its own title (think about ins stories). Users can publish their creations on all levels of the information hierarchy based on their creative needs.
There's no page metaphor in mysc. unfortunately, most people's thoughts won't take more than a tweet, and "page" is the exact thing we want to get rid of.
@weizhao Thanks Wei! Glad to have you on board! Tho login is not required but I'm sure free cloud sync and multi-devices support would be a nice plus to have 😜
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