#system tools

Account itself:

Before talking about managing our system, let’s take a look at the app and our account.

Importation

First things first, Florality lets you import your data from your Simply Plural, and your Plural Kit. They are currently the two “only” applications you can import from (but they are considering importation from other applications). The steps are very clearly explained, and if you are not familiar with this type of importation (or if you’re like some headmates and you are usually struggling with technology), they are very easy to import from.

What’s more, while checking the importation tab, you will be able to see when your last importation was synchronised. If you’re struggling to remember if you are up to date or not (if you often have amnesias), this feature comes VERY handy.

Privacy and data

The first concern I’ve seen when people are complaining about apps is the security of our data when creating an account. Florality is transparent about sharing our data, having a dedicated page to explain about our data, our privacy, how they are storing it. Here, you can also have more information about your laws and your data. As a system struggling with paranoia, this eased our worries.

Florality also has a trash option, where you can choose if your deleted information is stored for 7 days, 30 days, 60 days or 90 days. A lot of systems had at least one time one of their headmate deleting information about themselves, or another headmate’s. With this “Trash” function, you can have access to what has been deleted recently, and the possibility to restore it. 

Account security

With Florality, you have more options to connect yourself to your account. You can choose to connect your Google account, your Discord or your Apple account. You can also add another email, which is very useful in case you forget your emails, or put a backup one if you have issues connecting yourself to your email — or share it with someone. 

You can also check on what devices your account is connected to, and have the possibility to see when it was connected on these devices. This is very helpful if you’re scared someone might have access to your account. 

Accessibility 

Accessibility options are also available for Florality, for visually disabled folks. High contrast and several fonts for accessibility (such as OpenDyslexic) can be selected, with the possibility to customize the size of the font (you can edit the px size).

The design of the dashboard is also pretty intuitive and simple, which helps a lot to understand it, and more comfortable for the eyes to look at!

Paid features?

You can support Florality by paying a subscription, which offers advantages. A part of them are about cosmetics; such as having GIFs in banners and PFPs, slots of color schemes and themes, etc. 

On the other hand, there are also more “technical” features which are behind this subscription. Among them, the notes (3 per member), custom fields (10 per profile) and templates (3). Which can be a problem for systems relying on custom fields to try to keep up the more information they have.

However,  if you are importing from Simply Plural, you will have all your custom fields, even if there are more than 10. You will also be able to edit them. What’s more, the limit of notes is set to 100k character length.

This is due server storage stockages. While discussing with the team, they explained if Florality has enough income, they will increase the limits for the free versions. But for now, they need to maintain this restriction.

Application’s features:

Now that we’ve seen the features about your account, now we’re gonna talk about what the app itself is about.

Alter profile and organisation

As we mentioned earlier, we — the testers& — are a polyfragmented system, with many subsystems, fragments, etc. Which means our needs about managing our sysmates profiles may differ from other plurals. We hardly found features which were easier for us to keep correctly tracking our subsystems.

However, we were surprised when we saw Florality’s organisation. You can directly see in the sidebar an overview of who’s fronting and clicking on their profile to open it — and see their time while fronting. Adding profiles is simple, and organising them also is easy. You can choose to see all of your headmates, or see them in their main folder (for subsystems, for example). Which makes it easier if you have a lot of intra who are barely fronting!

The edition is quite easy, and you can find custom fields with features commonly used: text markdown, colors, dates, text… but also separators, images, etc!

On their profile, you have the possibility to check the folders your headmate is in, and manage it directly, without coming back every time and so to remove them. This may not be a big deal, but it saves a lot of time for large systems with a lot of members. 

You can also add notes and entries in your headmate’s profile. You can add other alters on the writing, adding this entry to their profile. You can also export it to a text file. Which is very easy if you keep a journal about an infodump, and you want to share it (for example).

Unfortunately, you can only have 3 entries per profile. While you can have more or unlimited by upgrading your account, we personally think this is a regrettable option. But as we mentioned it higher, this is due to a storage issue. So with patience, this may not be an issue anymore in the future.

Switch tracking, analytics and history

Keeping track of switches and having the possibility to analyze them can be an important feature to help us& to understand ourselves. 

Within Florality, you can check your front history. If you are familiar with Simply Plural’s front history option, Florality’s is pretty much the same. We’re not complaining, since a lot of systems are using Simply Plural for years, this makes it very much easier to understand. If you are not, Florality’s front history still is intuitive! While watching your front history, you may be able to select a period if you want to check it in detail. 

Another section, paired with fronting history, is its analytic. Fronting analytics allows you to give you a more detailed view on your previous fronts. Here, you can take a look at the fronting times of your headmates, who have been fronting the most, between two precise dates. You can select various options to track more precise information: time of the day, duration of front… 

You can also filter the fronting data by group (and you can include other profiles from the subfolders). For example, you can select your subsystem A to see precisely which Alter fronted, rather than your whole system. This can be interesting for huge and/or polyfragmented systems.

Importation features

We have checked and tried the two importation features Florality has implemented to their application. At this time, you can import from Simply Plural and PluralKit. You can choose to import from both of those tools, and you also have the possibility to select what and who you want to import on Florality. This means, if you don’t want to have groups and just want your profiles being imported, this is possible.

You can choose to import or not :

Alter profiles

Notes

Groups

Front history

If you already have imported profiles, Florality will warn you they are already imported, and will give you the option to keep their profile and update them, but also your notes, front history, etc. If you want to update only some of the profiles, you can here again select which profile you want to be updated.

About the front history, when you import from those tools, you can also check an option to update your front in Florality based on your current front on the tool you’ve imported. If you’ve imported from several sources and you just want from only one, you can take a look in the import history, and remove/delete all data by importation date.

Other features

This section is for other features we couldn’t decide in which part they’d be, and their own section would be too short.

Recent history, recent notes….

A useful feature to quickly take a look at what has been edited recently. If you forgot what you were working on, or if you just switched and want to know who has been fronting before you and what was edited, this function can help you.

Fuzzy search

Fuzzy search is a feature allowing you to look up from anywhere an Alter or a group. This gives you an easiest access to your members or groups (another interesting feature for huge systems). Currently only available on PC with a shortcut.

Closing words

And with that, our first review comes to an end! We would like to deeply thank Florality again for trusting us to participate at their closed Beta, allowing us to write this review, and their implication.

We hope this review may help you to give you a better idea of what Florality offers to you.

Please stay safe and hydrated!