I like it, but in all honesty - I don't see how multi-touch brings any advantage compared to a keyboard+mouse for this application.
The workflow is a bit different yes, but there is barely anything in there that really takes advantage of multi-touch gestures more than zoom, and there are many great zoom implementations available when using a mouse.
Regardless this could be quite useful, my biggest gripe is exporting your work, you should be able to export it to a PDF or something so that anyone can read or print it while still retaining comments, links etc. in a good, intuitive, way. That will make or break it in my eyes (granted I've only glanced at it so far) and I didn't see anything about that on the site/videos.
Not saying that it is badly suitable for multi-touch but I just have a hard time seeing myself working with my hands like that for a long session. Mouse + keyboard is vastly superior in terms of ergonomics and if I will be writing long comments a real keyboard is a must.
On a tablet? Sure, but feels like the UI requires a larger screen than a tablet.
My thoughts exactly. In fact, watching the presentation gave me the impressions that the touch ui was actually slightly awkward to work with, compared to using a mouse.
That's not a problem, as the application it self is quite interesting. So I think they should focus on that and then let the ui be secondary. When using it on a tablet, touch-ui is used, when on a laptop/desktop machine, the mouse/keyboard ui is used.
The workflow is a bit different yes, but there is barely anything in there that really takes advantage of multi-touch gestures more than zoom, and there are many great zoom implementations available when using a mouse.
Regardless this could be quite useful, my biggest gripe is exporting your work, you should be able to export it to a PDF or something so that anyone can read or print it while still retaining comments, links etc. in a good, intuitive, way. That will make or break it in my eyes (granted I've only glanced at it so far) and I didn't see anything about that on the site/videos.
Not saying that it is badly suitable for multi-touch but I just have a hard time seeing myself working with my hands like that for a long session. Mouse + keyboard is vastly superior in terms of ergonomics and if I will be writing long comments a real keyboard is a must.
On a tablet? Sure, but feels like the UI requires a larger screen than a tablet.