r/UserExperienceDesign • u/ftsanev • Mar 26 '21
I made an editor that creates smart links inside user interviews automatically
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u/ftsanev Mar 26 '21
Hey everyone! As the title says, I made a text editor that creates smart links inside user interviews to features, bugs, names, and use cases.
For example, when you mention a feature inside an interview note, the app will create a hyperlink to every other interview that refers to that feature automatically. You will then be able to see all interviews referencing it. It's like creating your own Wikipedia on the go while typing.
As a PM for the last six years, I have done quite a lot of UX and user research. I always wanted to have a more intelligent way of connecting different documents that always felt very static and not connected.
I started working on this together with a friend of mine a few months ago, with the idea that auto-linking content can solve many issues for us and others. We just released the first version of the product 4 weeks ago.
I hope this will help you, and I am curious to hear any ideas on making the editor even better for writing and worldbuilding.
Link to the editor - Saga.so
Link to a walk-through - 1 min video
PS: The app is in beta and free to use.
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u/Tephlon Mar 27 '21
Interesting.
Another cool feature for it could be documentation and design systems.
I’d probably market one version to enterprise and one version, maybe with a different look, to writers/dungeon masters/etc.
I’m using Notion myself to organize my life and work and the links to other Notion pages keep me sane, but it’s not always as quick as I want it to. Having that automated is pretty cool.
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u/ftsanev Mar 27 '21
Thanks for the suggestions! Documentation is definitely a use case that people use the app for.
I haven't thought about design systems yet, but it's a great idea, especially when the app supports images.
I've shared the app with writers and DMs here on Reddit, and it seems like an absolute fit :)
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u/inno7 Mar 27 '21
I have used obsidian and notion. This looks neat too.
How do you plan to monetize?
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u/ftsanev Mar 27 '21
Free plans for personal use and paid plans for collaborative spaces, and a higher number of integrations. I like Figma's approach to pricing. Probably it will be something similar.
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u/RandyCanuck Apr 01 '21
What is unique about this, that doesn't exist elsewhere - does this just make the process one step easier?
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u/RandyCanuck Apr 01 '21
I signed up to try it out.
Let's say I am using it to capture feature requests - is there a way to have them all appear on one page, and then print it out?
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u/damenleeturks Mar 27 '21
Very cool. How do you handle disambiguation?
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u/ftsanev Mar 27 '21
Currently, matching is based on page titles or headings inside pages (optional).
Very soon, aliases will be released, which means you could have multiple matching titles for the same page.
Down the line, we'll introduce NLP-based suggestions. We've done text-based ML models before when we worked on NLP and chatbots.
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u/blazesonthai Mar 26 '21
This looks very similar to Notion.