https://xtiles.app

They describe it as 'A web note-taking app to structure and enrich all your thoughts in one place. As if Miro and Notion had a baby.'

To me it seems like a fancy notecard app. Not as deep as your Heptabases, Kosmiks, etc. but free to try and use right now. Obsidian is my daily driver, but I like seeing these hybrid visual/text tools for brainstorming, visual thinking, diagramming, etc.

Basically you can create and visually organize cards on pages (grid-based.) Workspaces (of pages), pages, tabs, sub-pages all supported. Cards can contain various types of content- text, links, tables, lists, images, etc. Formatting, re-sizing and moving cards around seems relatively smooth, there is visual feedback when you re-arrange cards on a page. At the beginning of any line, you can type '/' to trigger command mode with a Notion-like drop list of commands.

You can indent bullet lists but no outlining- it would be nice to have toggle lists like in Notion.

They have a Youtube channel with some demo vids:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxcnrUGMmd1JOw_-pAlKvSQ

Any info. on the company? The web page was a bit sparse, as well as frenetic. Too much going on at once for me to be able to see what the product offers.

--Ken

Sounds interesting.

I'm also found:

1. Youtube reviews.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLGlkMgx5vc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08lpnQhv8vY

2. Mission and team on Medium.

https://medium.com/xtiles/intro/home

I'm a part of the xTiles team.

So, overall we're developing a new tool for thinking (thoughts).
Based on a note-taking approach and visual manner, you can put down your ideas, structure them, and enrich them.
It's accessible to brain dump - often different versions and unbaked ideas in the same place and then construct things.

Our early adopters are using it for individual or collaborative writing and brainstorming. Also, collecting Research makes sense.

Feel free to suggest or critique anything.

xTiles does look interesting. It falls into the category of note-managers using cards and white boards. This includes Scrintal, Heptabase and Walling... and probably others. They all take a little different approach. xTiles gives you a grid structure to build on, whereas Scrintal and Heptabase are more free form. Walling is even more structured still, I'd say.

I like that I can have tabs and subpages in xTiles.

Thanks for the notification.

Steve

It does look nice – but it makes me smile.

You can do more or less all the same things with Numbers on macOS / iOS (including the dragging/dropping of paragraphs/items).

And Numbers is also set up for collaboration.

But hey.

Cheers,
Bill

MadaboutDana wrote:

You can do more or less all the same things with Numbers on macOS / iOS
(including the dragging/dropping of paragraphs/items).

Unless you're a Windows user.

But hey.

Heh, fair 'nuff – although you can create and use the apps in an iCloud account, even as a Windows user.

Just sayin' ;-)

tightbeam wrote:

MadaboutDana wrote:

>You can do more or less all the same things with Numbers on macOS / iOS
>(including the dragging/dropping of paragraphs/items).

Unless you're a Windows user.

But hey.

Numbers is an unsung hero for story planning. I wish there was a way to put arrows or lines between text blocks that stick. When you drag a text block it leaves lines behind.

I also wish there was a way to get the return key to do a line break in a cell. Option-enter does the job, but it kind of interferes with my flow.

MadaboutDana wrote:

It does look nice – but it makes me smile.

You can do more or less all the same things with Numbers on macOS / iOS
(including the dragging/dropping of paragraphs/items).

And Numbers is also set up for collaboration.

Cheers,
Bill

You're not wrong. Similarly, I wish there was a way to link not just to sheets, but to individual tables or objects in the various sheets.

It's so nearly amazingly brilliant; a couple of extra details and it would be the best at pretty much everything. It even does folding! Although it then lets itself down, because it won't find text that's folded up – it'll only find it if it's unfolded.

Hm. Maybe I'll start harassing Apple...

Amontillado wrote:

Numbers is an unsung hero for story planning. I wish there was a way to
put arrows or lines between text blocks that stick. When you drag a text
block it leaves lines behind.

I also wish there was a way to get the return key to do a line break in
a cell. Option-enter does the job, but it kind of interferes with my
flow.

I did not know that. I'm going to look into it. Thank you!

MadaboutDana wrote:

Heh, fair 'nuff – although you can create and use the apps in an
iCloud account, even as a Windows user.

Just sayin' ;-)

tightbeam wrote:

>
>MadaboutDana wrote:
>
>>You can do more or less all the same things with Numbers on macOS /
iOS
>>(including the dragging/dropping of paragraphs/items).
>
>Unless you're a Windows user.
>
>But hey.

Andrew Tabunshchik wrote:

I'm a part of the xTiles team.

So, overall we're developing a new tool for thinking (thoughts).
Based on a note-taking approach and visual manner, you can put down your
ideas, structure them, and enrich them.
It's accessible to brain dump - often different versions and unbaked
ideas in the same place and then construct things.

Our early adopters are using it for individual or collaborative writing
and brainstorming. Also, collecting Research makes sense.

Feel free to suggest or critique anything.

Quick questions, Andrew. In what country are the servers located? And are you able to elaborate on your data security and encryption policies?

Thanks,

--Ken

Hello, Ken and forum friends.

Sorry for the slow response.
I'm not checking new updates very often.

Related to your last questions:
1. Servers are located in London, UK (based on Amazon web technology).
2. Our infrastructure is designed to be secure and constantly monitored.
All your data is cloud-hosted and protected with security and privacy.
Real-time backups and SLA 99.9%
Information encrypted at rest (AES-256) and in transit (forced SSL)
Strict policies and controls to prevent staff access.
3. Export data (notes) will be coming soon. Of course, we can manually support this request if that's needed.

P.S.
If somebody is interesting, stay on top of our updates - feel free to join Community.

Andrey.

Hello, Ken and forum friends.

Sorry for the slow response.
I'm not checking new updates very often.

Related to your last questions:
1. Servers are located in London, UK (based on Amazon web technology).
2. Our infrastructure is designed to be secure and constantly monitored.
All your data is cloud-hosted and protected with security and privacy.
Real-time backups and SLA 99.9%
Information encrypted at rest (AES-256) and in transit (forced SSL)
Strict policies and controls to prevent staff access.
3. Export data (notes) will be coming soon. Of course, we can manually support this request if that's needed.

P.S.
If somebody is interesting, stay on top of our updates - feel free to join Community.

Andrey.

Link to Community:

https://join.slack.com/t/xtileslaunch/shared_invite/zt-qo5p0kxz-KtfZ8TQE~XtlU_ettCqOoQ