8m36s This is exactly what we see as well at OrgPad.com Instead of writing long text where you have to think about form to structure your thoughts linearly, OrgPad lets people just write those thoughts down in little cells or bubbles and connect them freely. We let people include pictures, videos, other websites (like Google Maps, Google Calendar, Wikipedia a document from Google Docs, other OrgPages etc.) and files into such cells. The way such a document is structured already conveys so much subtle hints about the topic and the person writing about it. If used frankly and deeply, OrgPad can be like a mirror to ones mind as the tool is simple and out of the way letting you work, think, enjoy. Listening to Steve Jobs even when he was quite young is very much resonating with us because he valued simplicity, creativity and wanted to empower individuals to do great things.
We are also influenced greatly by Rich Hickey and Clojure/ ClojureScript that we use to write OrgPad. Thanks to mostly my colleague Pavel Klavík, we have some quite smart things in our code base. Some of those will go live in the next few days such as physical animations using differential equations calculated live in JS and written as CSS transform or SVG animate for greater efficiency. Everybody else either uses simulation and rewrites the position each frame (if they don't miss it) or just use linear animations that are frankly not very pretty. We are also writing our own collaborative rich text editor that should be ready to ship sometime at the end of summer. It will be similarly sophisticated as Google Writer/ Sheets where it makes sense and much simpler at that. We have the advantage, that OrgPad is much more about the content and connections between ideas and not at all about printing to paper or following established norms. Therefore, it is much more useful in the current digital world.
We are also influenced greatly by Rich Hickey and Clojure/ ClojureScript that we use to write OrgPad. Thanks to mostly my colleague Pavel Klavík, we have some quite smart things in our code base. Some of those will go live in the next few days such as physical animations using differential equations calculated live in JS and written as CSS transform or SVG animate for greater efficiency. Everybody else either uses simulation and rewrites the position each frame (if they don't miss it) or just use linear animations that are frankly not very pretty. We are also writing our own collaborative rich text editor that should be ready to ship sometime at the end of summer. It will be similarly sophisticated as Google Writer/ Sheets where it makes sense and much simpler at that. We have the advantage, that OrgPad is much more about the content and connections between ideas and not at all about printing to paper or following established norms. Therefore, it is much more useful in the current digital world.