A wonderful app for organizing complex projects!
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Thanks a million! If you find anything that is missing for you, please write to us anytime.
Ótimo App
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Thank you 🙏🏼
Noch nicht rund, aber guter Anfang
Zeichnen: noch sehr buggy, Linien brechen dauernd ab, wenn ich mit dem Apple Pencil zeichne.
Synchronisierung: geht scheinbar nicht zwischen verschiedenen Geräten. Ich habe es über einen Dropbox Ordner versucht und auch über iCloud, aber es lädt immer nur den Canvas auf der obersten Ebene.
Da ich es für den Unterricht benutzen will, ist der Sync absolut notwendig und muss eigentlich automatisch passieren.
Da ich nicht gleich einen schlechten Schnitt der Bewertungen verursachen will, gebe ich trotzdem die volle Punktzahl, hoffe aber inständig, dass hier noch deutliche Verbesserungen folgen.
Love the Privacy
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Thank you!!!
한글이 잘 써지지 않아요
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Thank you. Can you please explain further what exactly is not working in Korean? We will try to fix it within one of the next updates. Edit: It should be fixed now with today's update 1.5.1. Can you confirm this?
A good start.
A wishlist:
* Please add columns. This is a very useful tool in Milanote. Being able to add columns, color coding and nested “cards” or assets is a powerful and useful tool for organizing complex design projects.
* Please provide the ability to add captions under elements like images. Using notes in place of captions feels like a missing feature.
* There seems to be no straightforward way to format text on IPad other than italicized and bold. Neither Text nor Notes offer options to resize text alongside images.
*A “pinch to resize” feature would be incredible too; for quickly resizing images.
* While the functionality of visualOS’s folders serve a similar purpose and is preferred since it’s mirrored as actual folders on the hard drive, please allow options for how its icon is displayed in the UI. Folders make even the best put together canvas look like a desktop. The folder icon is less aesthetically clean compared to alternatives.
* Swatches or “Colors”. Addable swatches are important for pitch decks and mood boards. Right now, the user has to use workarounds but this is essential for an app like this.
*Workspace management seems clunky at the moment. Trying to delete a folder outside the app doesn’t appear to delete the related visualOS folders nor contents, and retains the connected assets even after deleted on iPad. Deleting from within the software itself seems to work marginally better. I may just be missing something but imagine getting hung up on trying to delete your feature test files and content instead of creatively using the app.
*Allow the ability to incrementally nudge an object’s placement on the canvas with keyboard input or on macOS.
•Add option for user presets—sizes, colors, shapes—for things like shapes, arrows, folders, text, etc. Being able to easily reproducer or duplicate commonly used things improves workflows tremendously.
* Selecting things with touch, even something as simple as selecting a photo to reposition it, goes totally against muscle memory. I consistently overshoot or understood finger taps. Using the Pencil is fine, and it should work similarly without. Mouse modes sort of works for that but introduces its own odd behaviors. A single finger tap and hold to drag things across screen should be an option.
Update: Unfortunately, after my initial positive review, I opened visualOS on my iPad only to discover a single “Recovered” folder and all of the work I had done over the last few hours undone, and randomly distributed onto the canvas. This was accompanied by several folders I had created previously now in a floating menu that says “New Items”. The folders just float about and won’t allow me to place them because a prompt says they “Already belong to a canvas” which is cryptic and not very useful. The folders seem to be trapped in this side panel and cannot be placed anywhere nor deleted. This was enough to convince me that maybe the app isn’t ready for real world use, yet. And unfortunately, if I’m honest, I’d have to remove a star because it affected my trust in its stability. This will have to become a bit more robust before I can trust it on actual projects.
Response from developer
Thank you for your review and taking the time to test visualOS! Please update to our newest version. We have implemented many of your ideas and made the sync more robust. But please keep in mind, visualOS is intended to be used from inside visualOS. You can drag files into the linked folder, or edit a photo with photoshop and we catch up, but it's simply not built for the file manipulation directly in the finder! If you want to rename or delete a folder or move items, please do it inside visualOS. Sorry if that wasn't clear from the beginning. You can see the linked folder as a mirror of the internal state of the app, which is the state of truth. If you have more ideas, please post them to our public roadmap: https://visualos.featurebase.app/roadmap
Great visualization tools
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Thanks a million! We have tested it with up to thousands of images and items on the board. On our test devices it did not start to lag, but if it does on your end, please write to us, and we are 100% sure to find a smart solution for this :) For the Zoom on web issue: Thanks for mentioning it! We have found out how to suppress this annoying behavior, and it will be fixed in one of our next updates.
Update 2
I realize you are new + still building, but please consider font options (ability to use installed fonts) + pen (size and color) options.
Thank you for updating so frequently. Pls keep going!
Response from developer
Wow! Thank you for your review! These are great suggestions, and we have added them to our roadmap: https://visualos.featurebase.app/roadmap If you have something else in mind, please write to us anytime. Edit: Yes, we have already made tests with the pen options. But we want to make sure that it is polished and not rushed. We try to make it a part of the next mayor release, 1.3, but I will not promise anything.
Love as an artist!
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Thank you! Hearing this makes us proud. Yes, you found a bug there with the images. We can reproduce it, and the fix is on the way. We hadn't noticed it ourselves because we usually add multiple photos by dropping them straight into the connected iCloud folder on the device: they then show up in the app ready to place. 😬 That might work as a temporary workaround for you as well. And color swatches for ideas are a great idea. We've added both to our public roadmap (visualos.featurebase.app). If you have more ideas, please write to us anytime! Edit: The "multiple photos add bug" should be fixed in our newest version
Great!
1. Options for pens ( different pens, sliding sizes …)
2. Ability to use downloaded, (my) fonts for text
Otherwise, great. Please continue to update.
Response from developer
Wow! Thank you for your review! These are great suggestions, and we have added them to our roadmap: https://visualos.featurebase.app/roadmap If you have something else in mind, please write to us anytime.
