Another new app: Protolyst

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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 26, 2023 at 07:42 PM

Hi, all,

I’ve recently seen a new app called Protolyst, which is very much a Notion-lite app:

I have not tried it, and probably won’t, but it looks like it might have a place in the market, bringing Notion-like features to a simpler interface. It has relational database tables, for example. It also has something called atomic notes, which I think function like block references, although I’m not entirely sure. The price is $10 a month, which seems a little steep.

Anyway, I mention it here for the sake of thoroughness.

Steve

Posted by satis
Jun 26, 2023 at 10:19 PM

I saw a post a while back from a co-founder of Protolyst (RicJBarnes on Twitter) mentioning an acaemic who used Hypothes.is (an open source annotation service) with Readwise to import atoms into @protolyst for backlinking, retaining the link to the source content. Which sounds clunky but fascinating.

Posted by MadaboutDana
Jun 27, 2023 at 08:32 AM

“Clunky but fascinating”... story of my life ;-)

satis wrote:
I saw a post a while back from a co-founder of Protolyst (RicJBarnes on
>Twitter) mentioning an acaemic who used Hypothes.is (an open source
>annotation service) with Readwise to import atoms into @protolyst for
>backlinking, retaining the link to the source content. Which sounds
>clunky but fascinating.

Posted by MadaboutDana
Jun 27, 2023 at 09:03 AM

Interesting new product. I’ve had a very quick look. Takes a little time to get a handle on what they’re doing, but it is quite impressive, especially the multi-column display of relevant notes (“atoms”); that’s a system I wish more text-based apps used.

Reminds me also of Scrivener and Lattics.

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