The reasoning behind these names is that Latius in Latin refers to being light in weight, and Dimidium refers to half, as in half the overall picture. I haven’t drawn the final version yet, but will be called Forma, meaning fully formed. I’m still tweaking some of the flaws, but I wanted to be upfront about what some of them are and indicate some of the solutions.
My intention is to make Latius free for download, and during discussions with professionals I initially refused to allow advertised content on this version, but upon further consideration about the need for some form of revenue, I amended that statement. However, I won’t allow them to be too intrusive or cover up any app content. As for the current subscribers of the beta app, I don’t want to lose anyone, so I’m just going to upgrade you to Dimidium, which will otherwise be hidden behind a paywall.
Finally, I have the intention to partner with schools with Optio Forma to replace physical planners with my digital invention. I want to do this because the whole idea of Optio was forged in the fires of my scholastic shortcomings. For years, due to external circumstances, I was unable to fully participate in class without my mind drifting to the major catastrophe of the day when it came to my personal life. I mean, what does chemistry matter when lives are at stake?
I designed a paper verion of the digital app that I am showing you now, and with more experience I hope to keep improving this service until it’s good enough for students to use to assist them in passing their classes and making through high school and college.
In a future post, I’ll go more into the technical details behind the differences between Latius and Dimidium, but I hope that for now this is a sufficient explanation of Optio’s future plans, and what my personal intentions are when it comes to manning the helm to steer this ship on beyond the horizon of the foreseeable future.
Thanks everyone,
Drew