This app might be the best mix of note-taking and ChatGPT I've ever seen.
If you're a student or anybody who wants to learn something, you're going to love this tool!
The app I wanted to talk about is Albus. I found it a few weeks ago and playing with
it. Even though it's new and still in beta, it's very cool and I think you'll find it useful too.
Essentially, it's like an AI-powered visual note-taking app. There have been more and
more visual note apps recently with infinite canvas or white board like
this. But none of them have figured out how to integrate AI with them as far as I know. So
Albus is pretty unique and new in that regard. Anyway, let's take a closer look at how to use
Albus. When you open the app, you can create a new board from this button. You'll see its clean
and intuitive interface. I love its colourful design and the font as well. It's a small thing,
but it makes using it more enjoyable. There's this box at the top where you can
type in any topic you're interested in. This is the theme of this board.
You can write anything that you want to learn. Let's say you're curious about 'how index funds
work.' Type that in, and Albus gets to work. In a matter of seconds, it prepares a bunch of
keywords related to that topic. You can click on any of them to add them to the board. It
uses ChatGPT to create these cards. You can expand them by dragging them down.
If you want some image to remember it by, you can press this icon to generate some pictures.
I guess this will make it easier to remember the topic as well as navigate the board,
especially when there are many cards. Then, if you want to dive deeper into one
of the cards, you can click on the plus button. There are a few options. You can simply have it
explain it more, ask it to be more specific or if you have a specific question, you can click
on on of the auto-generated questions. I really like how they make it easy for you to dig deeper.
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Alright, when you want to move on to a different topic, you could select
a different one from the sidebar. Here we have Fact, practical info and Deep diver info. Each
will give you a card about exactly what it says. But that's not all. You can add your own notes
too from this button on the right side. It can be questions you might have, thoughts, things
you read or what your teachers said in class. And just like in other AI note apps, you can have AI
expand it, simplify it or give you recommendations based on the note or provide another perspective.
You could also add a header block so it's easier to arrange the notes on the board.
But what's really cool is this smart text block. Unlike these automatically generated questions,
you can type in any other questions you might have. And it will answer it just like in ChatGPT.
One issue I noticed is that there's often a cutoff in its answer. I think there's character limit to
its output. So oftentimes, I see incomplete answers which is a little frustrating.
Another nice touch is the ability to play focus music with just a click. I love listening to
music when I work or study but sometimes I can't be bothered to open Spotify to find
the playlist I like. So it's really handy to have that option in the app. Although,
it's bare minimum - you cannot change the type of music. So you can only turn it on
or off. It'll be nice to have different types of music like white noise or lofi.
Oh by the way, Albus has three different modes at the moment. Explore, Study and
Teach. We've so far looked at Explore mode. So let's see what Study mode looks like.
When you select Study mode, you have a whole different set of cards that are useful for
studying. For example, you can start with getting key concepts or with a starter question.
Then you could also generate flashcards to memorise things. But this flashcards option
doesn't quite generate flashcards I was hoping for. It's not that useful. It'd be nice if it
at least had a proper Q&A format. Personally, flashcards are the most useful studying tool,
so I'd love to see this feature getting polished. I imagine combining Albus with flashcards apps
like Anki and RemNote would be such a killer combo. You could explore any topic with ease,
generate flashcards and then memorise them. That sounds like a dream tool to me.
Anyway, other options can help you prepare for exams by creating
questions or see the common mistakes. Likewise, the teach mode has its own
set of cards to help you get started. Now, let's say you're done exploring
and you want to share your board with other people. Albus makes this easy with its sharing
option. You can let them to see your notes, images, and the information you've gathered
by sharing the link to it. But I don't think it's possible to collaborate with others on
the same board yet. That'll be really useful! Apparently, you can also use it for presentation.
There's this blur button at the top right corner. You can click on a card to make it visible. So,
combining images and texts, I think this could be a really good presentation tool.
By the way, I also wanted to see how it works with other languages. So I tested
it with Japanese. It does understand what I write, but the outputs are always going to be
in English which is okay. So keep that in mind if you want to use it with different languages.
Despite some minor issues, Albus has a lot of potentials. It's a great tool to use for
learning and exploring new topics. But I realise it's not a note app. There's no search function
or ways to link notes together. So it's really more of a research tool that you use with a note
app which I think is great because you can use it with whatever note app you're using
now. No need to switch. Whether you're using Notion, Evernote, Obsidian, Logseq or Amplenote,
you can use them side by side when studying. Anyway, you should check it out if you're
interested because it's still free at the moment. Thanks for watching everyone! Don't forget to
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