SUMMARY
The Cards view on https://www.theodorehq.com/muse/ shows saved websites as cards with a preview image, the page title and the domain (see the "Inspiration" collection there: Logosystem, Recent, Good Habit, Jitter …). In the app I can't get this result. Saved pages appear either as text-only cards or with a full-page screenshot as preview, and image items show no title or source at all. I also can't find a view option that would switch to the layout from the website.
CURRENT BEHAVIOUR (Muse 1.0.43)
1. Saving a page (Chrome extension or launcher "Save Current Page") creates a card that contains only the favicon, the domain and the title. There is no image, so it looks like a plain text box.
Example: https://mellowclo.com/products/everyday-trouser-grey. The card shows "mellowclo.com" and "Everyday Trouser Grey – Mellow Clo", nothing else. Muse does store a page snapshot for this item (1280×1600 PNG), but the card doesn't show it.
2. When a snapshot is shown as the preview, it is a screenshot of the whole page, often covered by a cookie banner or a grey overlay (e.g. drmartens.com, bergzeit.de).
3. Image items in Cards view show only the picture: no title, no domain, no link to the source page, even when a source URL is set. A collection of product photos therefore looks like a plain image grid, unlike the cards on the website.
4. I can't find a setting or view option for the card layout from the website. The view controls may be in the "…" menu at the top right, which doesn't respond for me (separate bug report).
EXPECTED BEHAVIOUR
Every saved website or product appears as a card like on the website:
- preview image on top (the page's own image, not a full-page screenshot),
- title below,
- favicon and domain on the last line,
- for products, optionally a small price badge.
This should work the same for links and for images that have a source URL.
PROPOSED IMPLEMENTATION
1. Pick the preview image when saving a page, in this order:
og:image / og:image:secure_url
→ twitter:image
→ schema.org JSON-LD "image" (Product, Article, WebPage)
→
→ the largest image in the main content
→ last resort: a screenshot of the top of the page (first viewport only) with consent banners and overlays hidden.
2. Read this metadata in the Chrome extension, from the tab that is already open, at the moment of saving. Shops that block automated requests (e.g. decathlon.de returns 403) and pages behind a login still work that way. Send the result to the app together with the URL.
3. Also store, where available: og:title or schema name (cleaned, without the shop suffix), og:site_name, favicon. For schema.org Product: price, currency, brand.
4. Keep both images: the page image as the card preview and the full screenshot as a secondary view in the detail panel.
5. Give image items with a source URL the same footer (title, favicon, domain), or offer a view option "Show title and source on cards".
6. Make the Cards layout easy to find: a visible layout switch in the collection header and a "View" menu in the menu bar (e.g. View → as Cards / Moodboard / List).
7. For links that are already saved: re-fetch the preview with the new logic, either in the background or via "Refresh preview" in the item's context menu.
ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA
- Saving https://mellowclo.com/products/everyday-trouser-grey shows the product photo, the title "Everyday Trouser Grey" and "mellowclo.com" on the card.
- Saving a homepage such as https://recent.design shows its og:image (or a clean top-of-page screenshot), the title and the domain, as in the website's "Inspiration" example.
- Pages without og:image fall back down the chain. A cookie banner never ends up as the preview.
- Image items with a source URL show the title and domain in Cards view, or a documented option turns this on.
- The layout can be switched without the "…" menu.
WHY IT MATTERS
I save tools, inspiration sources and products I want to buy. For all three I need to see at a glance what the item is and where it comes from, the way the website presents it.
Happy to send screenshots by email if that helps.
ENVIRONMENT
Muse 1.0.43 (73) · Chrome extension 1.1.0 · macOS 26.0 · MacBook Pro M3 Max