Milanote

 Milanote

A design board, a planing board, its both and so much more

The Mac has an Application called Freeform, I use it a lot, well I did, to plan ideas and thoughts, and bring them to reality.

I have some 33 boards on a variety of topics and up until today, I thought it great, then I found Milanote a similar program thats way, way better and has so many distinct and usefull uses,

I found it as part of my research on Shadow and at the end of a YouTube video made by the Architect  Dami Lee. The link takes you to the section of her Japanese Robot video where she outlines her use of the program.

It is Freeform, but its taken the concept so much higher. There are several YouTube tutorial videos that help you to progress, but it did not take long to drag items out of the side bar and create new Boards, and add content to them, there is even templates that are designed to assist in quickly building pages. The tutorial below is one of many take your pick.

there is a free plan, that I have used, but for a small fee, you get a larger menu of usefull apps and upgrades.

https://youtu.be/OaWhH_5-XH8?si=pwXN73lON14I4Ajk

     


Location: Dorridge, Solihull, UK

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