We’re starting up a new beta for Strata, our companion mobile app for private and shared notes in Micro.blog. You can join the TestFlight beta here. Bookmarks, tags, and highlights are moving into Strata and (eventually) out of the main Micro.blog app.

Munish

this looks good. Thanks. I have not come across highlights before. How does this work?

Numeric Citizen

I think it makes sense to move these into Strata… but I think you have also bigger plans for those in the near future, am I right?

Numeric Citizen

@Munish you save a webpage URL into MB and the content will be archived into MB. Then, you can read (and highlight) portion of the archived content… from there you can create linkpost using a specific text highlight.

Munish

@numericcitizen thank you so mu ch for this. I love the fact the community is always there to help cc,

Numeric Citizen

@Munish consider these videos about Micro.blog that I put together from time to time.

Manton Reece

@Munish @numericcitizen Thanks y’all! Also check out this YouTube video I made that shows highlighting (about halfway through).

Chris Enns

I don’t know if this is a bug or just something that ppl like me who don’t regularly beta test apps aren’t aware of: but because I had Strata installed previously, it seemed to log in me to the beta just fine. But I had to log out and log back in in order to get the beta to sync properly. I think?

Manton Reece

@iChris Hmm, I’m not sure. We use the same app identifier for both the released version and the beta, so in theory they can be switched out without causing sign-in problems.

Chris Enns

Maybe I just hadn’t opened Strata on iOS in a while? Ok likely just me. :) Beta is working fine now on my iPhone.

Munish

thank you. I will check it out. I always seem to miss these features and should pay more attention lol

Munish

@numericcitizen thank you and will do

Matt Routley

nice, bookmarks and highlights are a better fit with notes for me

Aeryn

hey Manton I’m not clear on announcements you’ve made in the past about private notes. I’ve been using them a little on Premium. Then you announced they will be available on Regular ongoing. Then you seemed to reverse that except for grandfathered accounts.

I’m planning to downgrade to Regular but will I still be able to use private notes?

Some clarity would be appreciated :)

Manton Reece

@aeryn This is indeed very confusing right now. Here’s where things stand with notes:

  • We currently only advertise this feature for Micro.blog Premium, but it’s actually available for standard Micro.blog users as well. It is not available for Micro.one. So you can downgrade to Micro.blog ($5) and still have access.
  • Sometime this year, we are going to split Strata off into its own optional subscription. At that time, no new users of Micro.blog will get it, but everyone with a current subscription before the change will be grandfathered in.
Aeryn

right, that’s great! Thanks for clearing that up

Darrell Stokes

@vincent @iChris i had a similar issue. I haven’t installed it before, but after I installed the beta, signed in, and entered my key, it wouldn’t sync until I logged out and back in again. It’s working fine now!

Evie Snuggle

@stokini Logging out and in again fixed it for me too!

Manton Reece @manton
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