NodeLand Reviews

This is an amazing product. What I love the most is the embed feature that allows me to display mindmaps on my blog. This could be anything from breaking down complex ideas, to mapping my blog content.

NodeLand has completely transformed the way I organize and retrieve my knowledge. The AI-powered text editor is absolutely a game-changer, allowing me to turn notes into dynamic, interactive mind maps effortlessly. Even though the UI needs to be a bit more sleek, the intuitive interface makes it easy to visualize complex ideas and see how they interconnect, which has significantly enhanced my learning experience.

I love how accessible my notes are—I can access them from any device and the ability to summarize lengthy documents into comprehensive mind maps has also been incredibly helpful for both work and study. With the recently added custom code function now NodeLand has everything I need in one note taking masterpiece. Highly recommended!

I love it. It's a mind map (key idea or picture) that will open document that you can have the AI fill in the details. You can format this how every you like.

You can generate articles up uploading a PDF, pasting document, or have the AI create a mind map by telling the AI what you want.

You can re-arrange and drag the mind map nodes any way you want to your liking.

You're getting a great lifetime deal for on $19. There's nothing to complain about.

Short version:
-You can't change your email without emailing support
-Files over 0.4mb start getting stuck at 100%
-AI summary is limited and uses it's own summary instead of data provided (doesn't provide an option to use data provided)
-Other AI are significantly faster for summaries (instead of 20+ min for 0.5mb others take 30seconds)
-Unable to drag and drop documents

*In response:
1) This is the first account out of hundreds of online accounts where I have had to contact support before being able to change my email. Also, 2FA is more secure and faster than having to wait for a human to look everything over and manually update it.
2) I tested not just a single document but over 10 documents with various degrees of size (from 2.8gb all the way to 0.4mb). I didn't just arbitrarily pick a number and go with it. It was also tested on multiple devices on different networks and they all showed the same issues.
3) My experience showed that it did not use the context of the document itself but instead favored a generic AI summary. Disagree if you'd like, but that's my experience.
4) To be clear, the summarize I am talking about isn't the AI summary but the initial creation and summarization of the nodes. The point where it gets to 100% and then sits there for 20+ minutes across different devices and networks.
5) Drag and drop is a convenience feature just like being able to change the email associated with the login. I didn't dock a product just for a lack of a single feature, it was the culmination of of 5 different things.

Tldr; To me it's not worth the money and doesn't hold up for speed, AI context, file size, or ease of use. It's great that creator is actively reading these and engaging the feedback but it still gets 1 star.

What can I say about NodeLand?

NoteLand offers a quick, but super simple and superficial summary of websites and smaller documents. Larger documents are simply not summarized.

This is a time saver, but as mentioned, the summary is superficial.

The interface is anything but modern and not intuitive at all.
Moreover, it is necessary to make far too many separate clicks to accomplish simple tasks, for example:
- I have to press a "Create" button to create a node.
- Then enter the node name in a text field that opens at the bottom left of the page.
- Then save.
Conclusion: The window always stays in the bottom left, and when zoomed in, it is no longer present.

For connections:
- Click on the node.
- A side panel opens on the right.
- I then have to click on the tab to create connections.
- Then (if many nodes are present) search for my note in the unordered list (there's no hierarchy).
- Select.
- Confirm.

The other way for Connections:
- Click on the note
- Click on Connect in the blue menu
- Drag from one note to another note
- Done.

Why not simply display a point to connect when I hover the mouse pointer over a note? Then I would just need to click this and connect while holding down the mouse button. (As mentioned, this connection point could appear to the left, right, above or below the note since clicking on the note opens the side panel!)

And I'll stop here...
These are just a few examples of the many I could provide!

NodeLand is not at all intuitive, let alone modern, and the processes to get something done could be reduced by 90%.

Conclusion:
I absolutely cannot recommend NodeLand for note-taking.
It seems more like an attempt to reintroduce old, dead software with a new name, without making any qualitative changes regarding the UI or intuitive handling.

The only thing I would recommend NodeLand for is a quick but superficial summary of smaller documents or websites.

Therefore, 3 stars for summarizing websites, smaller documents, and for the feedback from the founders here on Appsumo...

Otherwise, NodeLand is unfortunately years behind!

P.S. If someone has $19 to spare and doesn’t mind using it for support, even with the uncertainty that NodeLand may not stay on the market for long, they can do so!

Whether I apply for a refund will depend on whether the speed of completing notes changes significantly in a short time and whether NodeLand becomes more intuitive.