xTiles
Launched 2021
122 features found available
In their words
The only planner that works like you do. Organize your ideas, tasks, and notes in a way that fits your life — no complexity, just results. Read more
Pricing
Our most recent pricing details for xTiles:
Free plan - $0
Starter plan - $5.75 per month
Plus plan - $8.25 per month
Team plan - 24.92 per month
Features pertaining to how the app comports itself visually
A note can preview content embedded from another note in the same pane as the note itself
AI integrations offered by the app or a first-party plugin.
Tasks from notes can be viewed on a calendar
Tasks can be added to the calendar as "events," which are automatically marked complete after time passes
Native integration option to sync tasks from within the note app to Google Calendar
App will import existing events from an external calendar (e.g., Google Calendar) and show them within the app
What kind of content can be uploaded or inserted into notes?
Content of the PDF can be viewed inside the note, rather than clicking on PDF and having it open in an external PDF viewer
Playing and interacting with YouTube videos is possible from within a note
Features that pertain to how the app interfaces with its customers
There is a dedicated venue such as Discord where users can chat about the product in real time
Company has averaged at least one blog post or change log per month over the past year that details recent product updates
The company provides a list of the app's upcoming and newly added features for public consumption
What measures are taken to ensure customer data remains private, even to employees of the companies themselves?
An explicit policy describes how security is implemented, and what access employees have to data.
A documented claim that all note data is encrypted "at rest" on the server
Note content can be created such that even a user who gained access to the note app's cloud database (employee or intruder) couldn't decrypt content (i.e., they couldn't obtain a usable decryption key even if possessing the database contents)
What options are available for formatting text and related content in a note?
Audio can be placed in a note with embedded controls to start and stop the audio
dotted points are used at the beginning of a paragraph to assemble unordered lists
A sub-list contained within an unordered list
As text is written in the code block, the level of indentation survives an "enter" press
Apply visual styles (like colors or font styles) to the code
Multiple languages can be selected to define the code syntax highlighting
Excluding text that gets colored as a side effect of some other formatting feature listed (e.g., highlight)
There exists a means to recolor the background behind specific text in more than one color
A formatting text style that slants the letters evenly to the right
A compact, inline formatting bar which remains hidden until text is highlighted
Videos can be placed in the body of a note, with controls to start and stop the video
An open canvas view where blocks of text, images, and other content can be dragged to any horizontal or vertical coordinate
What functionality specific to images is possible?
The note app allows the edges of the picture to get dragged so it becomes larger or smaller
An image (such as jpeg, png, gif) can be inserted and viewed in the note editor
What features are provided for interoperability between apps? How much lock-in is there?
An entire account can be deleted (including all notes and personal data) without emailing the company
App includes a built in importer for any markdown notes (MD)
App automatically syncs note & image data to the cloud without implementing extensions, and without signing up for a secondary account on a storage provider
What features does the note provider offer in terms of third-party integrations and utilities adjacent to the note content itself?
Pre-configured content (instructions, tasks, etc) can be duplicated from an existing source note
A browsable collection of pre-existing sample notes (e.g., "weekly budget") that can be copied into one's own notebook
Features specific to the mobile experience
How can note & task content be connected and visualized?
For any given note, the app provides a way to browse all other notes that contain links pointing to it
It's possible to create a link from one note to another note
How well can the app function without internet access?
Which platforms are officially supported?
An iPad app (separate from iOS app) has been published to App Store
What options are there for navigating around the app and finding the note you're after?
What features exist to share notes with the world?
Collaborators can be referenced via an @ prefix, receiving a notification upon being mentioned
Multiple parties can edit a note concurrently with a real-time editing system that prevents merge errors if the same paragraph is concurrently edited
Enable a specific user or multiple users to view and/or edit one's otherwise private note content
The note owner has options for different levels of permissions when sharing a note with other users who have an account (ex: full access, read only, editable by others)
A conversation thread is available inline throughout any section of a shared note
It is possible to deduce which users are currently viewing, and editing, a note
All documents shared by collaborators can be accessed on a consolidated page
Does the app support formatting data in tables?
Highlight the background of any table cell with a variety of color options
Column data types (e.g., numeric, text, enumerated) can be defined such that they restrict the type of input that can be entered into a cell
How can content be filed, organized and subsequently browsed?
What to-do list and scheduling features does the app support?
An option exists to designate who is expected to complete a task
A specific date and time at which a task is scheduled to be addressed
There exists a means to view all tasks that have been created across a group of notes
Text can be prefaced with a completable checkbox, but is not removed from the task list when completed
An alert time can be associated with a task, or note, before it is due. (e.g., remind me 1 hour before task is due)
What functionality is offered to capture content discovered on the internet?
The URL of the web page from whence the capture occurred can be included among the content inserted into note
Web clipper allows choosing a note to insert image into
An official Chrome web clipper extension is offered by the note-app
When the clipped selection is sent to a note, the title, and body of its text can be found using the apps search function
Did we miss something?
We are constantly working to make sure this page stays up-to-date with the features available in xTiles. If there is a feature you think we missed, please email us a screenshot and the URL where the feature is described to [email protected].
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