My Medium article about Legend

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Posted by Smithers
Feb 16, 2022 at 09:02 PM

Hey Stephen,

Nice article!

I just checked out your Dynalist doc too. Now that’s awesome!

Posted by Cyganet
Feb 17, 2022 at 10:26 AM

Hi Stephen,

A very interesting article. Thank you very much for sharing.

Legend appears to share a lot of functionality with InfQube:
- Outlines for organising information in the form of blocks/items
- Any block/item can be a to-do or go on a calendar
- Selective views of blocks/items via boards/grids
- Adding notes to a block/item in a separate editor

So in that sense I can image that people find it hard to grok. But since the multi-faceted aspects of InfoQube are so useful, I expect Legend to be so as well.

Posted by Jay Meistrich
Mar 4, 2022 at 02:49 AM

Hi, Legend developer here. That’s a great article Stephen!

I appreciate all the comments here, and I understand the difficulty getting started. We’ve never done a great job of introducing new users. But we have a new Help page (https://legendapp.com/help/) and we’ve started making introductory videos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpHN8CYLLvs).

I would love to know what you’ve found confusing. We can work on making those things more intuitive or try to explain them better. Do you think more videos or more articles would help? Or are there some concepts that are just too hard to understand as they are now?

Thank you!

Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 4, 2022 at 10:18 AM

Yo Jay,

Thanks very much for joining the forum – great stuff!

First – it’s a great app. But unlike other outlining apps (which is effectively what Legend is), it doesn’t really show you exactly WHERE you are in a complex document spread across multiple windows. This is really a UI issue; mapping the relationships between the various perspectives provided by the different windows. The thing I’ve found most irritating is the creeping suspicion that crucial information is effectively “invisible”, and I’m not sure exactly where to find it. Some kind of “overview” is, I suggest, the solution here – making it easy to establish exactly where you are in the information matrix, zoom out to see the whole, and then zoom in again (in various ways, as enabled by your lovely multi-window concept).

Rather than focus on training vids etc., I suggest a really objective look at the UI/UX is the way forward here. Because the concept is brilliant and I’d love to use Legend in anger (as it were!).

Cheers,
Bill

Jay Meistrich wrote:
Hi, Legend developer here. That’s a great article Stephen!
> >I appreciate all the comments here, and I understand the difficulty
>getting started. We’ve never done a great job of introducing new users.
>But we have a new Help page (https://legendapp.com/help/) and we’ve
>started making introductory videos
>(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpHN8CYLLvs).
> >I would love to know what you’ve found confusing. We can work on making
>those things more intuitive or try to explain them better. Do you think
>more videos or more articles would help? Or are there some concepts that
>are just too hard to understand as they are now?
> >Thank you!

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Mar 4, 2022 at 02:39 PM

Hi, Jay,

I just read the comments by Bill, which I agree with… except that I think videos are always helpful in two ways:

1. Showing how an app works
2. Demonstrating use cases that can help people visual how they could use the app

So I would encourage you to do more videos.

For beginners (at least this was the case with me), I had trouble understanding the differences between documents, panes and boards. Once that became clear to me, I picked up Legend pretty quick. I haven’t yet sussed out how to make use of the email client in Legend. For me, at least, seeing a video about how to set that up and how to use it would be very helpful.

The other thing that can start confusing me is when I have a board set up with multiple panes. But during the course of the day, I navigate around in one of the panes… and then when I come back to that board a day or more later, it is in the state I left it and not the one I originally set up. (Does that make sense?) If there were some way to set a particular configuration as the default configuration and then have a button or something that would restore it, I think that might help.

I agree with Bill that some sort of overview would be helpful, though I have a hard time visualizing how that would work.

Thanks for checking in.

Steve

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