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Offline (polish) #category

Fast Load Time

[[linear

linear.app

Make search field interactable even before main note is loaded #10-24

Make “No notes containing "asdffdfsgdsg" found. Why not create one?” have the search text as actual body of the note when you create. Shortcut, perhaps cmd+enter to create

While notes are loading, have a first, blank note that allows user to start typing. Spinner could occur below. Could even be just a textarea for MVP. Only activates if user has >10k notes perhaps? a quick capture popup could alternatively solve this #tweak

Condensed View

Make condensed view bullets

linear.app

Make condensed view entries not have “show more” if there’s nothing more to see

Play with style/bg color on condensed view

“Distributive property” with hashtags alone on a line — should apply to all following paragraphs

Reverse relations to

linear.app

Bug fixes

[linear

linear.app

??[github

ideaflowteam.slack.com

[[[[linear

linear.app

[[??[slack] #bug basic search isn’t working on develop for me fyi](https://ideaflowteam.slack.com/archives/C028U0USYCC/p1664528757947959)https://share.getcloudapp.com/p9uQXdXG](https://share.getcloudapp.com/p9uQXdXG) merged, working in develop

[[slack] #bug #minor — if there is a current filter condition including the hashtag you’re typing, hashtag autocomplete doesn’t work #ux](https://ideaflowteam.slack.com/archives/C028U0USYCC/p1663123769883849) 1503 #10-24

[[[[[linear

linear.app

[[linear 1

linear.app

references disappear #bug https://share.getcloudapp.com/kpuW4w7R

share.getcloudapp.com

“Publish is broken :////” #user-feedback

ideaflowteam.slack.com

UX tweaks

[[[[having exact

linear.app

Polish shortcuts, e.g. for inline expansion etc. E.g. cmd down

shortcut  to Pivot around hashtag

linear.app

Recreate cmd + b for bold

[[linear

linear.app

[[#maybe Put back

linear.app

Show note menu in inline expansions — e.g. would include ability to “jump to” (show in timeline) #tttt

Make Jump To easier (1 click vs 2 clicks)? Perhaps swap with Pin, as pin is infrequent, placing Pin in the Menu. #10-24

[Some kind of import

linear.app

#p1.5 confirm dialog popping up asking if you want to split multiline note on paste

[[[Mobile keyboard

linear.app

#tweak hitting " #" (space hashtag)  shouldn't break a + relation ; nor should  ~ and ?, or typing a url #10-24

#tweak if first line is blank maybe show next non blank line in condensed view. Thoughts? #10-24

General case collapse note feature #10-24

Note menu is often hard or impossible to click on, eg if you click on a hashtag, then try to click “expand note” on the first note #10-24

Polish - we could get away with ditching any one of these, but I think we need at least some for the sake of polish:

Last-mile Mobile-specific UX polish, Maybe make # autocomplete pop up from bottom of screen above keyboard bar like slack or ThoughtStream-ios

Back button to maintain scroll position

github.com

and expansion state

linear.app

[Ability to copy all notes in the current filter, esp on mobile[l]](#cmnt12)

[Closer to full text index search

linear.app

On iPad, and I am guessing iPhone, it takes two touches to click on and filter by a hashtag

#P2 (priority 2) Nice sliding left animations for filter by hashtag / back to all notes, like on thoughtstream-iOS

#P2 Link title extraction — e.g. when you paste https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220928-mexicos-ancient-unknown-pyramids , it would prepend the title, a la Bear, sans markdown. Making it: Mexico's 1,500-year-old unknown pyramids https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220928-mexicos-ancient-unknown-pyramids

www.bbc.com

#P2 First load takes a long time #tweak onboarding flow

#P2 way to turn a list of items you've selected into checklist (edited)

“I sometimes also forget whether I made something a hashtag or not so I have to search for both “#community-building” & “community building” ~tara” <> #duplicate searching based on prefix - ~taylor

#P2 Rename hashtag

#P3 Synonym search

Explore Audio Capture

See if iOS native app necessary for speed

Unlinked references

persistence / sync

you can’t delete an empty note (fixed in develop)

I find I sometimes need to refresh before notes gets pushed and/or pulled (pretty sure this is the sw dying problem, which is in progress

linear.app

edits inside an expansion aren’t saved (in progress

linear.app

[The big red scary error messages that I can’t dismiss is too big red and too scary.[o]](#cmnt15)

onboarding

There needs to be some way for new users to discover features. Right now there’s no way to learn the syntax for a spaceship or hashtag. The MVP for this in my mind is a small help section.

UI/UX

Fix folder jank (see ENT-1468 , ENT-1469

linear.app

Pressing spaceship, note menu, etc shouldn’t pull up keyboard tray. This is reeeeally annoying(in progess

linear.app

Jump to timeline not working on mobile (fixed in develop)

Search

Sort by relevance (in develop branch for search and in progress

linear.app

Reading / navigation / exploration

Notes in Reference section need to be interactive just like a regular note (in progress)

Offline (polish)

Fast Load Time

Condensed View

Reverse relations

Bug fixes

UX tweaks

Explore Audio Capture

See if iOS native app necessary for speed

#v1.1

Intro

Background on Types of Notetaking

Timeline

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#v0.1 (f.k.a Current)

#Old road maps

Web Product Roadmap

Mocks

Websites

Notes from http://productfeedback.jacobcole.net/

Top Priorities for December Alpha Launch/Share to Investors. Also Touchstones #designPrinciple

Detail Breakout examples (more tweaks below)

Marketing and Communications

Press Release Workplan

Positioning Prompt #1

Help Wanted

Roadmap

Team Pulse

Financials

Reference

Development Phases

Ideaflow Phase 1: the (single-user) Thoughtstream Web Interface

Ideaflow Phase 1.5: Entanglement-Style Bullet view (attempt 2)

Ideaflow Phase 1.6a?:  Auto Tagging/Extraction Tools

Ideaflow Phase 1.6b?:  Augment Chrome Extension

Ideaflow Phase 2: Collaborative Thoughtstreams – hopes to be as low friction as texting someone!

Ideaflow Phase 2.1?: List and Suggestion Box View

Ideaflow Phase 2.2?: Graph/Mind Map View

Ideaflow Phase 3: Rich(ish) Collaborative Documents – replace docs like chronicpain.jacobcole.net

chronicpain.jacobcole.net

Future Plans?

Command line for the web / third-party output extensions / integration with big co CRMs

Social network centered around sharing ideas

Web crawling + manual effort to create a structured, queryable version of all the Web

“The Annealing Machine”

Ideaflow as primary filesystem

Everything gets a URL

Ideaflow is a large vision that will contain many distinct but ultimately interconnected products

What we are building right now, ideaflow.app

ideaflow.app

It's built for one purpose: to become your go-to scratchpad to capture ideas, quotes, or resources you come across while moving fast, and that you don’t want to lose

In MVP form, it only needs to be flat (no hierarchy), though may contain purely visual tab indents in notes

It's like a “command line for your thoughts”

Design Principle: it's trying to be like a text file, but just a tiny bit better #designPrinciple

I also see it as a component part of the interface of future product phases I hope we build

e.g. It could become an always-available drop-down at top right of an Entanglement-style bullet view

www.youtube.com

Later phases will be discussed below

Notetaking is a broad term and refers to a lot of different workflows, including the below.

1. Taking notes during a lecture in class. Requires features including the following: Outlining, Drawing – e.g. OneNote/Evernote target this

1a. Taking notes while reading a complex philosophy book. Requires Outlining, and ideally Relations – e.g. Roam targets this

1b. General shared company meeting notes. Requires Collaboration, Outlining, and at least some way to fudge todos in. Google Docs, Notion target this.

2. Keeping a todo list – apps for this range from heavy (Omnifocus), to light (Workflowy, iOS Notes). Ideaflow Phase 1 may support checkboxes etc. incidentally but it’s not the target use case persay.

3. Personally quickly jotting down ideas, insights, resources, articles you don’t want to forget; keeping reference lists (e.g. of ideas, quotes, restaurants, epiphanies, insights, articles or comments from various newsfeeds); also queueing up suggestions you want to give to various companies, organizations; things you want to say to various people next time you see them – Ideaflow Phase 1 targets this. Alternatives include iOS notes, Simplenote, Roam (esp. see Daily Notes feature), Slacking yourself, keeping a giant text file, TheBrain.com

3a. Very casual shared notes from calls/discussions

1:1 calls. Existing workflows: texting each other links, FB messages

Team Zoom calls. Existing workflows: Initially, Zoom chat, then copy paste to Slack

Zoom or Clubhouse group discussions/salons; Zoom classes as well. Existing workflows: LinkedIn/FB/Telegram group chat

Ideaflow Phase 2 hopes to be as low friction for this as texting someone!

3b. Slightly more formal notes for interesting group conversations, idea brainstorming sessions at work, etc.  Note that this may be distinct from 1b. “General company meeting notes”.

Zoom or Clubhouse group discussions/salons: Setting up a Google doc with notes like http://salon.jacobcole.net/ or http://systematicawesome.jacobcole.net/

systematicawesome.jacobcole.net

Ideaflow Phase 2 ideally hopes to be a tool for this as well, but slightly less important than the 3a. use case. This might wait for Ideaflow Phase 3: Rich(ish) Collaborative Documents

4. Keeping “dossiers” on people (see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farley_file ). Tools that Target this:  getdex.com

getdex.com

5. Creating high quality reference sources on various topics, like http://chronicpain.jacobcole.net/

chronicpain.jacobcole.net

Ideaflow Phase 1 “Thoughtstream Web”

Use case: Targets Notetaking Use Case 3

“3. Quickly jotting down ideas, resources, articles you don’t want to forget; keeping reference lists (e.g. of ideas, quotes, restaurants, epiphanies, insights, articles or comments from various newsfeeds);also queueing up suggestions you want to give to various companies, organizations; things you want to say to various people next time you see them  – Ideaflow Phase 1 targets this. Alternatives include iOS notes, Simplenote, Roam (esp. see Daily Notes feature), keeping a giant text file, TheBrain.com”

“It's built for one purpose: to become your go-to scratchpad to capture ideas, quotes, or resources you come across while moving fast, and that you don’t want to lose”

Workflow: Generally, I expect it to be used as an always-open desktop application (separated from Chrome via the Tools >  create shortcut >  “open as window” feature for easy command-tab access)  or iOS home screen native application

Product Notes

“In MVP form, it only needs to be flat (no hierarchy), though may contain purely visual tab indents in notes”

It's like a “command line for your thoughts”

Design Principle: it's trying to be like a text file, but just a tiny bit better #designPrinciple

Estimated additional features needed to complete this phase

[ ] Some minimal onboarding docs, initial text on screen, or tutorial

[ ] Sundry bug fixes – mostly captured by P1 in Linear, and some of the new ones recently mentioned in #jacob-raw-thoughts

Target Users

Super on-the-go notetakers like David Bieber, Alex List, Jacob

Hypothesis

[[There exist at least a few (3?) people[p]](#cmnt16)[q]](#cmnt17) that really need better a tool for Use Case 3.

Complaints about existing tools

include: need lower-friction tool than Roam daily notes

Faster load time on Web than Roam

Better on mobile than Roam

Different workflow / fewer extraneous features than Roam

“I'm not the person Roam was built for” ~Adam Towers

Success Condition:   Alpha users will use it a ton over course of 1 mo

Possible success metrics

Roam metric: used > 4 days / week

> 10 actions / day (most session duration numbers are kind of hard to leverage and measure these days. Number of actions are a bit more significant.)

20+ notes a week on average

[[Time: Spending over one hour per week on the app[r]](#cmnt18)[s]](#cmnt19)

Subjective metrics (e. “I would be very sad if this tool were to go away”)

[[Note: Perhaps we should suggest people to use other tools for other workflows[t]](#cmnt20)[u]](#cmnt21), E.g. Workflowy for outlining class notes, and other todo trackers like omnifocus for tasks, so we can isolate this behavior?

Possible Outcome 1:

I hypothesize that finishing just the P1 features – which I see as the bare minimum for a quality app experience — will be sufficient to achieve this.

Possible Outcome 2:

Alternate hypothesis: the subset of users who currently like the iOS app won’t be satisfied with mobile web, and demand mobile web improvements OR sync with iOS app.

Jacob, David Bieber, Danish blockers primarily around snappy/quality experience

Navigation / design tweaks would be needed esp. on iOS e.g. Hashtags bar, clicking on hashtags to filter

Note: to get me (Jacob) personally to fully migrate from Thoughtstream iOS would additionally require relations, and possibly a few more changes

Possible Outcome 3:

Nobody actually likes the workflow of having a giant text file they prepend thoughts to. Maybe we skip to trying out Phase 1.5 Bullet View, then?

Feb 28

Product goals:

Mainstay Improvements

Very high-quality iOS experience (e.g. # on bar above keyboard), synced with web app, whether its wrapped react native, or Swift

Single user multi-device / multi-window sync. It doesn't have to be real time but maybe could even just pull every 3 seconds?

Relations

Implement bidirectional relations/improve relation experience

Make relations work in search bar

Great onboarding tutorial/walkthrough teaching the desired workflow

Changelog

If time, version history?

New Features

Relations

Inline expansion of relations in ideaflow.app (I’m calling Thoughtstream Web).

Not necessarily inline expansion of tags @’s and ~’s, but possibly – it would be great to experiment

UX improvement experiments

e.g. Zen Mode: Mode where each new day creates many line breaks so you don't see past day’s notes on the screen, or you can click an expand button on any note to have it pop up to the size of a near-full-screen modal, requested esp. by Ben

Phase 1.5: Entanglement-style bullet view

www.youtube.com

Highly requested by VC’s

Targets Notetaking Use Case 4

“4. Keeping “dossiers” on people (see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farley_file ). Tools that Target this:  getdex.com

getdex.com

Built off of core Thoughtstream Web codebase; ideally, minimal changes needed.

Design Possibilities:

View could be accessible via separate tab or menu

Thoughtstream Web interface could become an always-available top righthand bar drop-down when this view is active

Key features

Like Thoughtstream Web, but with the following changes

Starting to type a new note, e.g. “Ben Williams”, would initiate autocomplete.

Relation labels

e.g.

Ben Williams

Founder of: Auxparty

Lived in: Colorado

May require us to support labels inside <>’s on Thoughtstream Web, which isn’t a bad thing.

E.g. “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how”  ~Nietzsche <contrapositive of> “He who stands for nothing Falls for anything” ~Martin Luther King

May require design work on mobile

No date dividers by default

Target Users

People who need to network and remember people

CEO’s like Vlad from Lunchclub and their Chiefs of Staff

VCs like GFC’s Don Stalter, First Round’s Bill Trenchard

Superconnectors like Aku and Jacob

People with memory problems who also need to network: e.g. Sigward, who runs an accelerator

Success Condition:  Alpha users will use it a ton over course of 1 mo

Possible success metrics

Roam metric: used > 4 days / week

> 10 actions / day (most session duration numbers are kind of hard to leverage and measure these days. Number of actions are a bit more significant.)

20+ notes a week on average

[[Time: Spending over one hour per week on the app[v]](#cmnt22)[w]](#cmnt23)

Subjective metrics (e. “I would be very sad if this tool were to go away”)

Ops Tasks:

Import Jerry/ Mark Trexler’s Brains

Onboard Jerry

Onboard Mark carranza?

Mar 30

Mainstay Improvements

Offline sync with iOS app

New Features

Tweaks

Experiment with treating separate lines of any note as implicit bullets, in a visually subtle way – jacob has mocks on this

Child notes / true hierarchical outlining, a la Workflowy

Could be built off of Inline expansion of relations

Would include features like zooming in like Workflowy has, Or maybe we would Implement zooming in with a modal

Thoughtstream Web interface could become an always-available top righthand bar drop-down when you're zoomed in?

Ideaflow Phase 1.6a?:  Auto Tagging/Extraction Tools

Audio note support and auto transcription

Reverse voice search

automatic extraction of title from URL

automatically tag link to article as #article #biology

process images / photos

OCR

object recognition and searchability

Screenshots

E.g.  Facebook post for Twitter tweet extract entities

Automatic backup of any linked web page

Phase 2: Collaborative Thoughtstreams

Use cases:

“3a. Very casual shared notes from calls/discussions”

1:1 calls. Existing workflows: texting each other links, FB messages

Team Zoom calls. Existing workflows: Initially, Zoom chat, then copy paste to Slack

Zoom or Clubhouse group discussions/salons; Zoom classes as well. Existing workflows: LinkedIn/FB/Telegram group chat

Ideaflow Phase 2 hopes to be as low friction for this as texting someone!

“3b. Slightly more formal notes for interesting group conversations, idea brainstorming sessions at work, etc.  Note that this may be distinct from 1b. “General company meeting notes”.”

Zoom or Clubhouse group discussions/salons: Setting up a Google doc with notes like http://salon.jacobcole.net/ or http://systematicawesome.jacobcole.net/

systematicawesome.jacobcole.net

Ideaflow should be the buddy tool every group chat – Create a Collaborative Thoughtstream for each one

E.g. anytime you have a big facebook or telegram group chat

Every community (e.g. SF Salon,  StartX) should have an ideaflow

Even every 1:1 chat, e.g. Jacob & JM’s texting history

Each should have a collaborative thoughtstream that is distinct from a chat, because the chat may include transient information like “hey are you here yet”

Features:

Ideally, typing #book Eye of the World in a facebook group chat would cause it to get persisted to the group’s Ideaflow

This may be possible a la http://texts.com/

texts.com

Future: Eventually we should probably build our own chat app to compete with FB & telegram ; Ideally it would be a new multichat client like texts.com

texts.com

Should have memorable, typable urls, like sfsalon.ideaflow.app

sfsalon.ideaflow.app

These should be instant to create

I bought the domain if.new, kinda like docs.new :-)

Should be a list of all the created ones somewhere

Maybe like shared.ideaflow.app or thoughtstreams.io could be the url? And it would also of course have a big friendly create new button

We should have a “people tab” that’s basically a spreadsheet like http://people.worldquestguild.connectordocs.com/

people.worldquestguild.connectordocs.com

Biz Ops Work

Build Global Idea Bank

globalideabank.jacobcole.net

Build database of all projects going on at MIT, Stanford, and other universities and migrate onto Ideaflow

April 30

Phase 3: Collaborative Rich Documents

Use Case:

“5. Creating high quality reference sources on various topics, like http://chronicpain.jacobcole.net/

chronicpain.jacobcole.net

Features

Headings and subheadings, some level of rich text, real-time collaborative text editor. Etherpad or Hackpad (or heck, Dropbox paper) would be a fine base functionality set. But I’d want a view where I can filter the doc, maybe in a pop-up by tags

3 Differences between thoughtstream web editor and a minimalist docs editor

Hierarchies (achievable natural as an extension of inline expansion)

“Different” Features

Linkifying hyperlinks

Headings

Jacob’s HW

Background: Notetaking is a broad term and refers to a lot of different workflows, from taking notes during a lecture in class, to keeping a todo list, to keeping reference lists (e.g. of ideas, quotes, restaurants, epiphanies, insights, articles or comments from various newsfeeds)

Feb 1

[[[My hope is to be able to test the hypothesis that there exist at least a few people[x]](#cmnt24)[y]](#cmnt25) that really need an ultra low friction tool especially for the third [z]](#cmnt26)category, and will use such a tool a ton, as evaluated by, after one month of using the tool, any of the below:

Subjective metrics (e. “I would be very sad if this tool were to go away”)

20+ notes a week on average

[[Spending over one hour per week on the app[aa]](#cmnt27)[ab]](#cmnt28)

[[Perhaps we should suggest people to use other tools for other workflows[ac]](#cmnt29)[ad]](#cmnt30), E.g. Workflowy for hierarchical outlining, and other todo trackers for tasks, so we can isolate this behavior?

I hypothesize that finishing just the P1 features – which I see as the bare minimum for a quality app experience — will be sufficient, to achieve this.

Alternate hypothesis: the subset of users who currently like the iOS app won’t be satisfied with mobile web, and demand mobile web improvements OR sync with iOS app.

Aside: to get me (Jacob) personally to fully migrate would additionally require relations, and possibly a few more changes

Review positioning

ID reporters

Review positioning

ID reporters

Select reporters

[[Make the app holistically[aj]](#cmnt36) snappy, slick, not buggy[ak]](#cmnt37)

The Lowest friction knowledge capture

High quality text editor experience

Ben, Danish, Jacob & everyone use the app

Gee-wow touches

Bill trenchard (investor, new user),

Danish (uses Web app on desktop some, thoughtstream native app on iOS),

Jacob  (uses Web app on desktop, thoughtstream native app on iOS) ,

David Bieber (uses thoughtstream iOS native, Roam on desktop)

Ali Tarraf (mgmt consultant)

Mobile

Quick login and stay logged in on mobile

Bottom up autocomplete on mobile

Bar with # and @ etc

Instant load time

[iOS web app has to feel as good as native[al]](#cmnt38)

[No “position is undefined” errors or other[am]](#cmnt39)

[No need for login each time[an]](#cmnt40)

[Touch[ao]](#cmnt41) bar for # @ ~ ?

No typing lag

Cursor jumps to before tag when creating tags on mobile

[Jacob, Danish[ap]](#cmnt42) blockers primarily around snappy/quality experience

Navigation / design tweaks eg clicking on hashtags to filter

[Can’t start losing content when logged out with tiny warning of “JWT[aq]](#cmnt43) expired”

Inline expansion

Import Jerry/ Mark Trexler’s Brains

Review positioning

ID reporters

Review positioning

ID reporters

Select reporters

General: If you know of any influential "supercurator" individuals who keep an enormous personal knowledge base (like Jim Keravala

www.linkedin.com

Hiring: Progressing well, yet not done. We’ve been integrating a new incredible engineering teammate over the last month: Ben Williams, full stack engineer and founder of the popular social music experience site AuxParty, and the team is gelling well. Looking especially for another excellent Javascript and iOS engineer, if you know any star ex-founders, for instance, or operators who might know such founders. Job descriptions.

iOS Engineer

www.ideaflow.io

Full Stack Engineer

www.ideaflow.io

Product Designer

www.ideaflow.io

NLP/Machine Learning Engineer

www.ideaflow.io

If you know of any influential "supercurator" individuals who keep an enormous personal knowledge base (like Jim Keravala

www.linkedin.com

Total Employees = 3 full time (really), + 2 (parttime david)+ 1 (albert), Contractors FT (1 JM) (contractor occasional: evan, vince, jen, aku, ?jenni), ,  [#]

Total Employees = [#]

New hires or losses, team mood, wins or concerns on the culture front.

Burn rate: ~$180k/mo (on budget)

Runway: ~3 years based on our current roadmap

make sure relations work in the search bar when you click on them  as per evan’s mock. Weird bugs atm.

Inline expansion of relations as per Evan mock (other part) and jacob-ts-listview’

Labeled relations

If it’s not too tough to implement, from a logical progression standpoint, we should make it so that

Labeled relations more like bullet view

Aggressive autocomplete of WHOLE NOTE (TOGGLABLE) – this is the possibly defining difference between the “2 windows” in jacob’s workflow

Charlie Cheever<investor of> Ideaflo…

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Labeled relations

If it’s not too tough to implement, from a logical progression standpoint, we should make it so that

Labeled relations more like bullet view

Business Strategy

viable paths however

Key Metric

Number of Power Users “Earlyvangelists”

Number of users who login more than four days/week (and take at least one write or search action?)

Strategy

Would appreciate more business considerations rather than product features, need more Macro considerations on how to get to a good Series A

Specific Questions: Key considerations for Series A? Will we do a Series A? How will we take into account user feedback & priority? How many users by when? What profile of users? Do we plan to sell / when will we sell? If you knew very little about the product & everything about the market, what would you do?

Bat: Let's say users are overwhelmed by cognitive load presented by text file UI, this means we have to change the product which can make the product roadmap collapse on itself. Always risky to have a 6 month product roadmap, which is why startups are great & big corps are shit. I know it's important that we should have big opinions around product features, but this is a common cause for company collapse, for no one is paying attention to product-market fit.

Investor Expectations for Shone were very misaligned which is why they skipped on the series A

Jacob: Yes, idea is likely 1 or 2 of our investors would pre-empt a series A if they saw a few thousand users excited / if investors were excited using the app themselves. Majority of investors is 10k MAUs

It would be helpful if you built a completely different document than this

Spencer’s recommendation from slack:

Concretely what would be helpful to understand is the business decision tree and I think something as simple as a chart or quick bullet points with some timelines and very high-level descriptions would be awesome

i.e. what exactly we are aiming for? What steps we are planning to get there? and along that path how we know (via metrics or otherwise) whether to keep moving forward or to try another direction

This would help answer some questions I have like — what is the current hypothesis we are trying to validate? and which user cohort does that target? Specifically what is our strategy for reaching and onboarding these users (PR?, personal networks)? What metrics (# of users, notes per day, etc.) do we need to reach to know we’ve validated this hypothesis? What is the goal after we get the traction we want (e.g. series A)? Instead if the experiment flops, which path do we go down and to what degree does that delay/change our goals?

Re: Background: Notetaking is a broad term and refers to a lot of different workflows,

You listed three workflows, but I’m still not 100% clear on what workflows we are targeting and which ones we are not supporting. It would be awesome to have a clear guideline on that so we can all be on the same page for testing purposes

Re: test the hypothesis that there exist at least a few people that really need an ultra low friction tool especially for the third category

Who do we think these people are? Where do you think we can find them? What tools are they currently using to try to solve their needs? What are those tools missing? How many people is a few?

Re:  “Perhaps we should suggest people to use other tools”

If we can define the use case we are supporting, I think it makes it much easier to do this

Re: Alternate hypothesis: the subset of users who currently like the iOS app won’t be satisfied with mobile web, and demand mobile web improvements OR sync with iOS app.

How many users on mobile do we have that currently meet the all three criteria that you listed?

Subjective metrics (e. “I would be very sad if this tool were to go away”)

20+ notes a week on average

Spending over one hour per week on the app

Since we don’t track anything on mobile, do we have a way to know this?

case insensitive

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13439278/running-a-case-insensitive-cypher-query

stackoverflow.com

https://neo4j.com/docs/cypher-manual/current/clauses/where/#case-insensitive-regular-expressions

neo4j.com

Doesn’t use indexes

Hashes + slug in filename when you click save to neo4j

Track sources array on ea neo4j node and edge

[Run job on existing neo4j to deduplicate case-sensitive matches, log list of what connections had been missed[au]](#cmnt47)