bjoernm

In case you're looking for a more wiki-like experience that supports internal links, markdown, and real-time editing check out https://www.nuclino.com (I'm a Co-Founder)

We're building Nuclino (https://www.nuclino.com/), which is inspired by Notational Velocity / nvALT. You can upload images via drag and drop and embed code blocks. Syntax highlighting for the code blocks is on the roadmap. You can either share individual pages with a client (via a public URL) or invite someone to share several pages and collaborate on them in real-time.

If you're looking for a lightweight Evernote alternative with markdown, real-time collaboration, and wiki-style organisation: We're building Nuclino (https://www.nuclino.com).

We are working on Nuclino (https://www.nuclino.com), a lightweight real-time wiki offered as a SaaS. It would be great to get your feedback if you are researching this area!

We tried a lot of tools and one approach that didn't work for us was a large shared hierarchy of files and folders. We tried Google Docs for this, but it got messy quickly and had to be maintained manually. Additionally, it took a lot of time to find what you were looking for via search or exploring the tree. People had different ideas on how to structure everything.

We abandoned files and folders and are currently using our own real-time wiki (https://www.nuclino.com) to access a flat hierarchy of pages mainly via a title-based and full-text search. Internal links between pages provide a good way for us to navigate among related pages. For a more explorative approach we are experimenting with automatic tagging and visualizations.

I am sorry to hear that you are upset with our current experience.

> So the most important link on your entire web site is effectively still invisible.

Where would you like the link to be and how should it look?

> I don't understand how you can post this screenshot[2] and talk about information density. The information density of your current product is very low.

What would you like to change exactly regarding the information density?

> But the worst problem is the incredibly low contrast of your UI.

Would a high contrast theme solve the problem for you?

In general, I am more than happy to offer you a Skype/Chat session, where we could discuss the design in more detail. Feel free to drop me a line at bjoern@nuclino.com

Thanks for the feedback. We didn't test the landing page under lots of different conditions yet, but we'll continue to make improvements. For example, I just deployed a new version with an improved contrast of the footer.

Regarding the product, themes and customizations will most likely be the best option to maximize the usability for each individual user. This way, users could choose high contrast themes if they are not happy with the default.

As for the general design question you are proposing, my opinion is that there is no one-size-fits-all approach that pleases and maximizes the usability for everyone. For example, making all text larger might increase readability for people with below average eyesight, but will punish users with normal eyesight by decreasing the information density. I think that adaptive design, which software can uniquely offer to some degree, is the only hypothetical solution. However, this is obviously limited by the context-awareness of systems in that it doesn't help that a system could automatically adjust it's font-size if it does not know the state of the users' eyesight.