So I got an email last week from Chen from Nototo and he let me know about this product that was
essentially a Sim City like note taking application and you know me I jumped over to product ton and
Decided to check it out. It got first product of the day in
Java January middle January and the essential idea is that it's a visual way to note take
Now if I'm honest I sort of jumped on the straightaway because I thought this application could be great for students
but also if you're teaching your kids
productivity or some sort of a note-taking system or you're a visual learner and obviously
They'd suitable for sort of all part of those
so in today's video, we're gonna check out in a toto we're going to sign up and
Give you a bit of an overview of the application
Okay, folks, so here is the landing page
The price is free at the moment. You can didn't donate to them. It's just behind some lentils
Apparently they're three engineering students, which is quite cool. It's sort of a bit of a start-up idea at the moment and
We're just going to sign up here. Okie dokie
So here is the onboarding what I quite like about this is they sort of like have built
I guess some sort of thesis around this like we all have superpowers and also that our minds are almost like
Recall centers like a mental map so you can essentially build stuff inside of this application
It sort of reminds me of like
Room skate to some extent like I don't know or like Age of Empires. Sorry not like runescape Age of Empires
So for example, what you do here is to go ahead and create and island
So I'm actually quite impressed with the speed of this on web
It is a little bit snappier and then I want it I expect it
So when you start an island, you could for example call it
history
for you know AAS level if you're in the UK that is
So here you can start
Taking your notes below and as you can imagine you can use all of the text formatting that is available here
Including actually adding some images some multimedia as well as some links as well
So in this case, you could talk about you know your coursework
that's coming up and
If I actually get out of this note
I can see that these sort of eight pack of notes is created from this island
Now if I click into this I kid like recolor the notes straight away or actually that recolor the entire island
But I can go ahead and create a note within this sort of history a level. Now. What's quite nice as well?
um, you can remove this from the grid which is essentially
Taken off so you can just take that off and as you can see the island gets slightly smaller
But you can also relocate it so you can bring it from one island to another
Which is quite nice and they do also say up here tip shape your island in two different shapes to make it more memorable
so for example
if you are
I don't know studying the history of Italy you could shape it into and maybe a boot or very similar to what you could do
Now you can also delete the island as well. Um, you know recolor the island at any time as I mentioned and
All you have to do to make that island bigger is just keep pressing
these sort of new squares
So navigation seems to be fairly easy. As you can see here this sort of like a tutorial on the left hand side
Looks like I've expanded my island and what I can do is place a note here and that checks off another
So I might say here
coursework a
And you can see here that I've gone ahead and edited that note
We'll come back to the note editing a little later. But as you can see here, it wants me is to expand the note
I'm not exactly sure how to do that. Maybe that's this resize option
So once you go ahead and press resize it could make a little bit bigger so that maybe it takes up more space
Say you're studying something that's little bit more specific
You can make it very big or this is for an exam for example, so that's one of the things there
Now one thing you can do is you can use the right-click to actually expand your I'll in there
I'm curious at what placing a component means?
So if I were for example to create another island, you can see that that one pops up
so
You can put down decorative components and they act as mental cues. So here we go, so you can access your
Components up here. So for example, let's say I wanted to relate this one to history to make it a little bit more
Associative of history note, so maybe that boat could be quite good. So I'm gonna pop the boat over here
I'm guessing you can drag it. Okay, so that took a little bit time for me to understand
but all you have to do is click it and then
actually, you have to just sort of
Sort of make it a little bit bigger. So you could do that with all of your different notes. And for example if I had
You know the study of the Apollo missions
That was part of a class topic
I could donate a space and what I could do is move one of the phases over to it
and
Drag that there so that on that so it seems like a ship
So you get the concept you can start adding these sort of, you know basic elements to it
And it's quite nice actually as I was I mean actually surprised at how much of a range there are here
For example, you could be sounding biology and the way that food and energy works and you could grab that
So it's quite nice and they're actually called like I don't know whether you've watched like Sherlock the series that he uses
These sort of mental maps to essentially create associations
In his mind and this I guess is the same concept
So for whenever here there's these things called templates now, you can choose some of them like for example with journaling
so for example if you wanted to steal a
march
2020
template you could go ahead and zoom out and
Drag that one in and just tap it so as you can see here, it's quite cool
So you can actually go in and start writing a journal
I think this is a really neat idea actually like this is um without being discriminating unless you're a visual thinker
This could be a quite good way for kids to start journaling or even getting into productivity
it's almost like a stepping stone or if you're a visual thinker and you want to start like
Tallying everything up
So they're what the templates do and you can actually get a template for different types of mumps. So if I wanted to start
You plotting a head and seeing okay up here along this sort of right hand line
You can see that April is available and also March is available
But you could go ahead and create your own island if you want to
Now as you can see, there's sort of like a limit to some extent
Let's see if you can actually okay, so there's no sort of limit to it
You can zoom out as far as you can but it doesn't look like there's some sort of like
You know ending to this whole map. It's like a clean canvas
So you can build roads to your island as well
I believe so. For example, if you wanted to build some sort of SOC Asians are
Guessing I could build
Some roads to it so as you can see I've trying to build some sort of roads and pretty all for it this
But the concept it would be to help connect up between islands
And again, it's a sort of a bit like notion. You could probably get a bit carried away in terms of building your own structure
Now going back to the note editing. You can create as many notes as you like
you can also go and color them individually, for example if I wanted to have a
Green note here and a blue note here and maybe not blue
Maybe a white note then you can do so and you can add as many notes as you'd like by the looks of it
Inside the note editing. You can also add checklists. So for example, if you've got some homework you
Could go below and start using the checklists which are easily ticaboo
And you can also use some of the quote in the number checklists bullet points as a what?
So some of the minor things I believe up here you can undo and redo
But this is also this option if you use two fingers, you can scrub all the entire map
So if you had a quite a large map
You can move around quite well now on this left hand side if you open it up
You can actually get a sort of a bit of an overview of where your different areas are and for example, you can script
Skip to them
So for example, if you built with quite a hefty area
Then you can actually go and find it using the navigation bar on the left. They've also got settings as well
You can select the colors who had the trackpad mode and a scroller sensitivity
You can also export your notes as well
Which is fairly good into a zip file, and there's an option to buy them a toffee below now
I can definitely see why this application is currently really popular on product and I really love the idea and
if I had a kid that was say between ten and
Fifteen and they were looking to start school and you know actually take a looking to take more sort of
Effective note-taking and actually build a practice of active recall then I would recommend this application
It's quite cool. But also if you're a visual thinker as well if you're someone there
demands a bit of
Association if you're studying of researching or even you want to spice things up a little and your very visually thinking
Individual and notions not doing it for you. This could be quite a nice alternative
But guys this was just a short review. I'll be keeping an eye on this application. It's a pretty cool one and
Hopefully this review helped you out. So please do let me know in the link in description
So, please do let me know in the comments below what you thought of this application and I hopefully will be reviewing applications like this
in the future, so guys, make sure have a great day and I'll talk to you very very soon, which is ever ie