The team is very good and the tool is already very functional even with the bugs. So, let’s wait because great time is coming for Remnote.
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I really hope not since I like it more than other system.
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Yeah, the reference class of startups that drop their regular product cycle isn’t great… I’ll hold off from recommending RemNote to friends for now.
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I have this concern also.
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Hi there,
I am also facing problems for the last couple of weeks, every time I email them they respond to me back please wait patiently. I guess Remonte is having a Partnership conflict between all stakeholders and the Co-founder.it is really not that easy to gain consumers’ trust, I would ask responsible fellows to take care of the issue with the highest care, not just sending an email with an apology for delay fixing.
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Hey everyone!
We understand and hear your concerns about the product. I think it’s totally fair to feel this way from a user standpoint.
Quoting from one of our replies to a concerned user (for more visibility) :
Yes, we haven’t released an update for a few months and that’s highly unlikely of RemNote’s usual “Build fast, ship fast” nature.
I would like to take a moment and address why it has been so:
- Until April 2021, we were entirely bootstrapping and RemNote was built and designed (majorily) by a single developer.
- Thanks to the Public Launch and massive support from the users since Jan 2021, we were able to envision a much larger dream for RemNote and have since then transitioned into a Startup (from being a single developer product).
- This transition is the major reason, as to why we couldn’t maintain our beloved shipping schedule. Our founding team, had to go through an intensive phase of hiring, fundraising and company building and this was lead by our CEO/Co-founder Martin, who also happened to be the sole developer until a few months ago.
- As our sole developer had to lead RemNote through these transitional stages, we found it hard to build and ship as much as we used to and that resulted in a ghost town-isque update log.
Now, for some good news :
- Since April, we have been expanding rapidly and we now have a team of 11 talented members who are engineers, designers, product lead, support, community, marketing, content etc., (we are still actively hiring for other roles)
- We have also been working on a complete revamp of the Product for the past two months and hope to push the update real soon. It’s right around the corner, for the first beta release of the new app.
- Regarding concerns if RemNote is dying: I understand why it might make a fellow user think so, because of no big features since the last big update in January. But, this redesign is only the beginning of our very long commitment to build an innovative and robust PKM/Learning tool. Until a few months ago, we were fully bootstrapped, and now that we have backing, we are strapping ourselves for the long run and are committing to it through the Redesign. We did anticipate this reaction from the users, and still prioritised the Redesign over other exciting features that we have in stock, because we wish to commit big and start fresh.
- If you have been following the updates in this market space, you will realise that we were much ahead of our competitors in terms of features, and hence we used this leeway to quickly catch up with design (UI and UX) related issues. We are noticing that other products in this space are finally catching up with us, and with the Redesign almost over, the timing can’t be better!
- Following a series of quick redesign updates, we will be resuming our renowned Shipping Schedule, and we can’t wait to ship all the exciting features that we have in stock for you guys (oh, and don’t forget a fully revamped mobile experience along with the iOS app)
Let me also take this opportunity to extend a really huge thank you from the entire team for all the patience shown by our wonderful community of users, influencers and supporters. We are definitely in for the long game (we also have an exciting news that we wish to share with all our users after the redesign update), and if constant shipping of new features is what our users want - we are bringing it back, with a bang!
See you all soon, with the update <3
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With regards to what’s coming:
- The entire app and all it’s components are getting a major facelift UI wise
- We are revisiting some of our core UX/workflows and reworking them in order to make the app as easy as possible to start using, for a new user.
- We are adding some new features that make the whole UX better, but no game-changing features are being released with this upcoming update (they will come following the update)
- We are coming up with a hybrid roadmap idea, that will be made public. There have been a tremendous amount of feature requests from all channels and we would like to communicate with our users regarding the direction of progress, moving forward, and involve our users more from now on. We are trying to embrace the “building in public” format, but it’s definitely WIP for now.
- The core changes that we make during this redesign push, will give us the ground to build our future mega features
- A TON of bug fixes have been done already and we are still fixing more, so that the redesign comes as polished as possible (includes existing bugs + new bugs introduced by the redesign).
Reason why we haven’t pushed mini updates with bug fixes is because some of the core elements are changing and hence it would be a waste of engineering time, trying to fix something that is going to get a facelift and might not need fixing anymore.
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Good news, New roadmap！
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Thanks for the status update and preview of things to come.
If my RemNote fuel tank was running low, it’s now been filled back up!
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Really appreciate the patience and support from you guys!
The reason why we are not stating an actual date, yet is because we don’t want to put too much pressure on the engineering team and designers. The redesign is coming out really well, but we feel it’s still not there yet, and hence testing and implementing new iterations.
After the admin duties were over, we all got together and went through an intensive phase of feedback collection from our communities, understanding pain points and then thinking through the product from first principles. This almost took us a month to brainstorm together, and come to a consensus on different design proposals. Once we were confident with the major direction, implementation started and our engineers have been hard at work since then. They have been clocking almost 10-15 hr sprints everyday since then, with the motivation that our users should enjoy a fresh new app that’s easy to use, feels good, looks modern and doesn’t have a long learning curve.
There’s one thing we can promise though, this is only the beginning for RemNote, as a company, and along with our redesign launch, we will be releasing a more detailed Vision statement. We really can’t wait to share all this with you guys. Like everyone here, we are excited and impatient as well, but we are doing our best to hold back and make sure we deliver a quality product, so that we can focus more on expansion and feature building later on.
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Ballers! Makes sense to prioritise a round of fundraising and hiring to support a more ambitious vision. Pumped for the redesign and getting back to schedule!
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yep, stability & quality is most important, don’t release if we don’t have a stable version
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Thanks @Karthikk for all the thorough info, and I wanted to express my thanks to Martin and the RemNote team. This software has seriously helped me organize my studies and day-to-day tasks, giving me great peace of mind and a higher quality of life. In my opinion it’s superior as it is now to every other PKM tool, and I’m grateful for the hard work of Martin and everyone behind the scenes.
If I may, I also have a question about the redesign. I’ve been trying to figure out a way to put data into RemNote in a table format. Are you able to hint at whether or not the redesign with include table-building/formatting features?
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Remnote is great, but it needs a more user friendly interface. There must be a way to create a mindmap like map of data. See thebrain.com for an example. I use TheBrain and Remnote because they each offer something I can’t get in both. When Remnote offers a fast way to visually reference all my rems and information, it will kill a couple of my other subscriptions. There is no single improvement that will make remnote more popular and user friendly than creating a visually simple and organic reference map of information. I attached an example from TheBrain.
Please make this a priority.
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I didn’t know thebrain.com . RemNote already has a map view and that will be improved in the future I guess…but yeah @Gabriel you gave me an idea. These days I’m working on my study methods, it includes taking notes, spaced repetition, active recall and using mind maps. If RemNote could allow to create Mind Maps inside the program itself it would be awesome. I’m thinking of mind maps with text and images (optional but useful for visual memory). Now if we take this and also allow to link any node of the mind map to actual rems, then I have no words ahahah…it would become an unbeatable software…is it something you’ll consider? I consider RemNote as a specialised program for students and I would like that it would keep this vision forever, because that is was sets RemNote apart from other programs…an all in one integrated solution @Karthikk . Since we are talking about mind maps, other things that could be included would be concept maps and linear diagrams. I even have another idea. It would be great if RemNote would add the possibility to create a rem type organised according to the Cornell Method that you can choose when you create a new Rem…it would be just a matter of making a Rem divided in 3-4 parts that users could fill in while taking notes…a header, a part for actual notes, a part for questions or keywords and a part for summary…then students could elaborate those and make the final version of their written notes or make diagrams.
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" I consider RemNote as a specialised program for students and I would like that it would keep this vision forever, because that is was sets RemNote apart from other programs…an all in one integrated solution."
I could not agree more. But every student alive wants such a program to be as easy to use as possible.
I’m asking that the developers take Remnote from Dos to Windows. Remnote is currently a very dry text based interface or a scattered map of dots.
Using images from TheBrain above only as an example, I want to point out how incredible it is to view the information we need to study and remember in a VISUAL and CONTEXTUAL way.
I’m suggesting a similar visual map of our remnote learning library, that allows us to see the contextual information linked to the REM we are viewing. A system that automatically focuses on key learning points, but shows all related REM or at least related categories of information in the same view.
But keep the fantastic power Rem-note is offering to memorize and review all the nooks and corners of the map. When you need to review certain REM, you are signaled by the Rem-map. Every point on the map has a review alarm built in. The Rem-data points flash or something. You click those flashing REM on your map and review them.
So all your information is organized in a fluid, beautiful map, appealing to the eye…
Build a mind-map that displays your learning library, and allows you to memorize and review all the data contained there in, without using a hideous dos like structure of directories. Its also cross platform, usable on both PC and Ipads, etc. But keep the power of Rem-note’s existing features. That is the next level. Whoever gets their first has my subscription.
Just brainstorming below…
Open your Rem-map.
Open a Rem-Cat (a category like anatomy)
Open or create a Rem-note. (What are the chambers of the heart)
Open or create Rem-lets. Sub data points attached to a Remnote. ( Information about each chamber of the heart)
From that Remnote, link Horitzontally to other questions about the heart. Or move up one Rem-cat to a different organ in the body, or to a different Rem-Class (an entirely different area of study like Astronomy)
But every box or bubble on the Rem-map… Every Rem-let, Rem-note, etc. is a flashcard with a spaced repetition system built in.
However it is all organized VISUALLY. We are visual creatures. When any process becomes visual, it becomes superior. Youtube is a classic example oh how popular organic/visual learning is. Most people would rather learn from youtube than from a page of dry text instructions.
Anyway, my suggestion is probably far to much work for the developers and would probably require a complete overhaul. But it would rule the world.
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To be clear, folders and documents are only there to populate the sidebar and limit the breadcrumbs in the queue, there is absolutely no reason to stick to them as primary organisation methods. Conveniently, this links up to your graph point: the more link-first you go, the less readable that graph would become. Some software handles it better than others (Obsidian), but RemNote’s graph view is considered to be in early stages at the moment. That said, even now you can annotate edges by adding a descriptor front to a reference, and I’m sure other improvements are on the way.
Definitely a bit silly to try to make everything visual for the sake of it - after all, it will still be mostly text notes and flashcards.
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UMNiK “Definitely a bit silly to try to make everything visual for the sake of it - after all, it will still be mostly text notes and flashcards.”
Critics said almost exactly the same thing about the Windows operating system.
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It just seems unwise to spend dev time on extra presentation features when there is so much left undone as far as the core text database functionality is concerned - queries, tables, integrating the SRS part with the wiki features…
I admit I am biased in this regard, as I firmly believe in text being the fundamental medium of thought and creating dense networks of it that attempt to mirror the internal thought processes, which would be problematic at best to parse into a neat graph, but the relative popularity of pure mindmapping apps compared to the recent explosion of hierarchical notebooks seems to support me in this.
Of course, in the future it would be nice to get a more freeform environment a la Milanote (see Arbitrary number of panes and the ability to arrange them freely), but I dread to imagine the amount of time that would take to get done. My guess is, polishing the graph view and exposing it to Custom CSS is the best we can hope for in the immediate future as far as visual thinking is concerned.
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Hey Jude! Thanks for the kind words
Table Building is going to be one of our major projects moving forward (after the redesign), so that means it will not be released along with the redesign unfortunately. Sorry about that! Nevertheless, it’s on our high priority list.
Thanks for bringing this up! I couldn’t agree more. I use TheBrain myself for some of my explorations, alongside RemNote, only because I enjoy using the Plex. I think it allows us to discover more connections between our thoughts, and we have been researching into such possibilities for RemNote as well.
We agree that text is just one medium of thought, and moving forward we would like to support all the popular mediums for thought (drawing, spatial arrangement/canvases, tables/data view, concept maps/relationship maps, etc.,) We don’t have a timeline for when we would be able to support all of this, but yes we do consider them as essential for life long learning
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