Tom Giannattasio

Clover - Work visually with the all-in-one notebook for creatives.

Clover is the all-in-notebook designed for creatives – featuring a powerful markdown editor that can explode traditional, linear documents into a "surface" for a more intuitive, visual way of note-taking, brainstorming, mind-mapping, and managing tasks.

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Steven Mancera
Hi there, it is a generally great product. I've signed up as a Beta tester even before when I just stumbled upon your product on Twitter, back before when it had its Notion-like, condensed sidebar UI. But to my surprise and disappointment I was given a Beta invite access, a week before it's real launch. To a completely different UI than I signed up for (but with the same webpage that's showcasing it's old UI, that later got updated with the new UI) It's all good I think, product launches go through a lot of design choices. So I gave it a shot. Here are my thoughts : - Completely misled by the webpage interactive demo that switches between Notes & Whiteboards. That is really not possible on the product right now. Upon creating a New Page, and you can choose whether to make a "New Document" or "New Surface". You cannot switch between both after the fact, or turn your "Document" into a "Surface" whenever you like it, as it's imposed on the webpages and the marketing introduction video. - The Text blocks turning into a Timeline blocks (from the screenshot 2) isn't even possible right now. It's completely animated concept. Even with Frames and Text blocks. Completely bummed when I found that out. - I don't know really how Frames works back then or right now, and how are you able to Group blocks inside them, but I tried it myself and I cannot imitate the Groups blocks in Screenshot 1, with Auto-resizing height as you add more Text lines. I just can't. Frames more like acts like a link or boundaries, to show a point on your "Surface" to someone. I cannot make it associate with a certain block, that's why moving a Frame, doesn't move the blocks above it. I don't know what I am doing wrong about that. There's not even a documentation on the Help Center about it. - Two column layouts (from the Screenshot 4) only available right now manually with the Surface whiteboards. Not possible with Document mode. - Please be aware that the sidebar UI isn't what it looks like from the Screenshots above anymore. It's gotten a downgrade and imho made it worse, navigation-wise. - We would appreciate an ability to mention an exact Time on a Todo list block, and it'll remind you about that Todo at the exact time via a native Push notification (both on Desktop, Web and Mobile). Not even Craft or Notion can do it, this would be a great opportunity for Clover to one up it's direct competitors on a longstanding feature missing from Todo features from these fellow block-based documents workspace tools. - Just remove those misleading and inaccurate promises of features and behaviors from your Product, and we'll be okay now. That's what I suggest.