App Profile: Nuclino

Astrobiophysican

Rating: 4/5

Nuclino is great if you have lots of complex information to organize and interlink. Currently I experience an issue when moving a page or collection; it basically decouples and becomes a float element disassociated from and unable to place in the list again. It persists until I restart the app. The suggestion I have is a toggle that allows the graph layout to include (maybe as a different color or dotted line) the in page links. This would be incredibly useful as it would show other axes of centrality and clusters of pages reflected in the hyperlinks. The links feature is what makes this better than OneNote for sorting files. personally I find OneNote’s section organization and indentation more intuitive. Nuclino requires new layers to convey taxonomy. That is cognitively expensive (more clicks through dedicated organizing elements). It would be worth considering allowing notes to be added to collections so you can give account of what a group means without forcing a subpage dedicated to that (which can push containers into the list; which is the tradeoff perhaps to Nuclino approach). Overall, I love and recommend this product.

Rex Albel

Rating: 3/5

I have been testing this out as I am starting my game design journey. Previously I used OneNote which was great but I wanted something with better hierarchy support, file management and integrations. Nuclino does these things well. However, the app doesn’t have any drawing tools and It uses drawing tool integrations I’ve never heard of. I looked into these but when it comes down to quick sketches and ideas I’d like those to be easy and in one place, usable with my Apple Pencil. This would include pens pencils and simple shapes and colors, similar to most other note and planning apps. In addition, it isn’t really clear if there is a back function, bullets only support one level, and some of the stuff in the interface is tiny, specifically on phones. Also the app integration picker is broken on phones and only shows a tiny box to choose the apps.

IBC70

Rating: 4/5

Polished and innovative first effort, but missing basic features like a back button or offline access. Will keep an eye on this one to see how it develops.