Input is a simple app that helps you get things done across different apps and services more efficiently. The design of Input is pretty minimalistic, which is fitting for the simple nature and purpose of the app. Like many other text-based apps, there is a lot of white with black text, with greyed out text that indicate when a command was successful or not. There is also some green text every now and then from the developer about important updates, so it is easy to tell everything apart.
In order to use Input, users will need to sign in with a Google account. While most of us probably already use Gmail, this shouldn’t be a problem.
When you log in with Google, you have the option to connect to other services to get the most out of Input. These services include Evernote, Dropbox, Google Calendar, Gmail, Slack, Todoist, Wunderlist, OmniFocus, Twitter, Venmo, Remember the Milk, Buffer, Asana, and a few others.
By default, Input launches with the keyboard, ready for you to start typing in the input section at the bottom. To help you get started, there is a popover menu above the cursor that shows you all of the available actions to you based on the services you connected.
To make things easy to understand, Input will have separate sections that you can work with that are highlighted in blue. For example, creating a new note in Evernote will have two sections for you to fill out: Note Title and Note Text. Or if you want to prepend or append to an existing note, it will prompt you for the note title, and then the text you want to add. With this kind of flow, it is hard to mess up with your commands in Input.
A unique feature of Input is the fact that the app will save commands if you do not have access to a data connection, and it can remind you to send them off later when you are connected again.
