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Products that do what Folio Dark Muse does
A local-first writing IDE for books
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Hey HN, I want to share with you something I and my four colleagues have been working on for the last several years. It’s a whiteboarding and notes tool called Muse[1]. We just released a 2.0 version which includes local-first sync. A little backstory: I’m one of the authors of the 2019 essay Local-first software[2]. (Past HN discussions[3][4].) The thesis is to reclaim some of the ownership over our data that we’ve lost in the transition from filesystems to cloud/SaaS. So I’m excited to bring CRDT technology “out of the lab” and into a commercial product as a chance to prove the value…
2022 · museapp.com
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2012 · tranquillpoet.com
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The professional book writing app built for serious authors
Jun 2026 · epilogue.page
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For academics who have outgrown the spreadsheet tracker
May 2026 · manuscripts-app.com
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The idea is a place for beautiful notes like https://insidevoices.handwritten.blog.
Jul 2026 · handwritten.blog
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