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This is amazing and reminds me of Tydlig, an amazing freeform graph based calculator, that I really love http://tydligapp.com/ http://tydligapp.com/ its not as

This is amazing and reminds me of Tydlig, an amazing freeform graph based calculator, that I really love http://tydligapp.com/ http://tydligapp.com/ its not as practical to use it as i wish it was, but I still love it for what it is. And since I noticed the authors are possibly reading... This is simultaneously the most amazing thing I've seen all month... and I watched people send a rocket around the moon ... amazing and yet deeply deeply frustrating to read. This is the same deeply frustrating, irritated feeling I have when I'm searching for answers to a problem and read an academic paper that talks about some algorithmic innovation or software improvement that does one thing or another that might help me solve my problem, and the entire paper is about the process and the results, with a tiny summary of the changes, and not a damn line of source code... and it really grinds my gears. It feels like I've been jerked around, my time wasted... But through all that negative emotional stew, these two apps... Inkbase and Crosscut look positively magical, I wasn't kidding, its the most amazing thing I've seen in the last month, and possibly all year... and the idea that the authors appear to have no intention of turning either of them into actual products... that all this will (unlike Tydlig) be impossible to show other people face to face... how computers and computing can be different than spreadsheets, math, and computer code... Having read and now re-read both pages, I saw no clear reference to the future of either project, beyond highlighting what interesting aspects of future work in other projects they have taken away from each of these... At the end of the day I know that magical things like this often on arise because the developers have complete freedom, the ability to design everything without any outside pressure, no product growth to worry about, no user feedback to answer to, no help document to write... but at the same time, every time I come across something like this, which appears so complete, so far progressed towards being a product, but just put on the shelf... It fills me with weltschmerz. So now I have a brand new copy of https://museapp.com/ https://museapp.com/ ... some weltschmerz... and the rest of my days work ahead. :-/

pvh 4y ago
These experiments are not the products we think users would adopt if they held them in their hands. They are more like the studies a painter or a sculptor might do as part of planning a more ambitious piece. It's hard to predict where this work might eventually lead (that's the nature of research) but I will just say that we continue to explore the space and we have another piece we'll be sharing soon.

pvh 4y ago

These experiments are not the products we think users would adopt if they held them in their hands. They are more like the studies a painter or a sculptor might do as part of planning a more ambitious piece. It's hard to predict where this work might eventually lead (that's the nature of research) but I will just say that we continue to explore the space and we have another piece we'll be sharing soon.