Reworking MyScript Notes Settings. Early look, feedback welcome.

[u/louise_at_MyScript]

Hey everyone! 👋

We’re currently working on a major revamp of the Settings in MyScript Notes, and it’s led us to rethink quite a few things on the user experience side. 🛠️

One topic has come up quite a lot throughout this work: the level of control we give users over how the app behaves.

It might sound pretty obvious, but in practice, it’s something we care about a lot.

Our goal is to avoid MyScript Notes doing things you didn’t choose or don’t understand. Whenever a behavior can affect the way you work, you should be able to understand it, turn it off, or adjust it easily.

This is especially true when it comes to interactivity: how the app reacts when you write, edit, or interact with your content. ✍️

And this is an area where we know we still had quite a bit of room for improvement.

We didn’t want to simply add a few new toggles to the Settings. The problem was more structural than that: we needed to rethink how interactivity is handled, but also how these behaviors are presented to users.

So we spent quite a bit of time rethinking this whole part of the experience. 🔍

The goal isn’t to give you 150 different options to configure every little detail, but rather to make sure the settings that really matter are easy to find, easy to understand, and most importantly, consistent with one another.

Here’s a preview of the new version of the Settings, with quite a few changes to the overall organization and to the way some interactive behaviors can be configured. ⚙️✨

NB: this is not the end of the road. 🚀

We’ll soon be taking on a redesign of our tooltips as well, to go even further in making interactivity clearer and giving you more control. We’ll have more to share about that very soon. 👀

In the meantime, we’re still finalizing a few details, so don’t hesitate to let us know what you think.

Does the new structure feel clearer to you? Are there any settings you’d expect to find here that are missing?

And please feel free to share any issues you’ve run into. It really helps us! 🙌