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Posted by Dr Andus
Dec 8, 2015 at 07:20 PM
faustisch wrote:
I signed up… now I’m kinda ashamed.
Well, you can never know… Sometimes it’s the risk takers that get the goodies. Let us know if you get any inside info.
Posted by shatteredmindofbob
Dec 8, 2015 at 07:36 PM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
There is so little real information on the website, just vague promises.
>Made me question if at last some Ph.D. grad student is beginning to
>study CRIMPing and is looking for a group to test. Because only a
>CRIMPer would actually provider his or her e-mail for the just the
>PROMISE of some exciting new note-taker.
>
>Steve Z.
I’m having flashbacks to that ultimate GTD app for Windows the ZenWriter guy said was coming soon, back in 2012 or so…
Posted by Gorski
Dec 9, 2015 at 03:24 AM
faustisch wrote:
> I signed up… now I’m kinda ashamed.
Courage. There’s no place for shame in the land of the CRIMPers.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Dec 9, 2015 at 02:11 PM
Hey, I signed up too. It was only afterward all these strange thoughts flowed into my peanut brain. - Steve Z.
faustisch wrote:
I signed up… now I’m kinda ashamed.
Posted by marcus
Jul 24, 2019 at 09:12 PM
So I just stumbled upon Unit (unit.ms) for iOS in the App Store. Interesting that it took more than three years to go from announcement to release.
Anyway, it is intriguing! Similar to Notion.so (at least what I remember of the Windows version from early 2018), but currently iOS only. Items can be text (plain, numbered, bulleted, heading 1/2/3), checkbox (“to-do”), image, attachment, or parent (“unit”), whose nested children items (including any combination of these types) open on a new screen. So outlines are possible file-manager style, with one level visible at a time. (A foldable, multi-level view is available, but shows only unit items.) Parent (“unit”) items are functionally limited to one line of text, but can have color, reminder, star, and tags. Most items (individually or in batch) can be converted to a different type, although unit items cannot currently be converted. Items can be very easily be dragged and re-arranged, which for me is a big plus. In Dynalist, my current favorite outlining/notebook app, this is possible but comparatively awkward. Items can also be easily deleted, copied, duplicated, or moved.
It seems to have potential for gathering web bookmarks, too. Unit can be the destination for the Share feature from a web browser, receiving the page’s URL and inviting the user to browse for the destination – something I wish Dynalist could do. Any item consisting of a URL can be converted, in a single tap, to a proper bookmark, which fetches the page’s title and adds an inline preview (though the latter isn’t reliably working).
It is still very new, so features are predictably limited (no font customization, no multi-level bulleted or numbered lists, etc.) but both in concept and execution it looks like a very promising start. Free version allows 500 elements and 1GB storage; paid version is currently $3 to $5 per month.