Mohio - mindmap your Evernote

Posted by Franz Grieser
Dec 5, 2013 at 07:06 PM

I just spent an hour trying to make sense of about 40 notes in a notebook and of 130 notes in another.

Well, what Mohiomap does: It takes the notes titles in a notebook and groups them in star shape around the notebook title. If you have several notebooks, one notebook is open and the other notebook titles are grouped in star shape around a central circle. You can move the notebooks around, also the notes. And: To keep the graph to continually move around, you can pin notebooks and/or notes so they stay still.

It took me a few minutes to figure out how to move the entire formation around on the screen (hold left mouse key pressed while moving the mouse) as there are no scrollbars on screen; the mousewheel is used for zooming in and out.
What I found distracting: Some of the notes branches keep moving around on the screen (just a few millimeters to the left and right), it looks like the branches are wobbling. Still don’t know why that is. The online help is very, very short (I didn’t even find the “move the formation around” mouse trick).

The map only displays notes titles; though you can open one note in a tiny window. However, many notes titles were not completely visible. Mohiomap shortened more than a third of my notes titles. So I had to keep the Evernote window open on my second monitor to check a) the complete titles and b) the note’s content.

2 nice features: The Search is fast. And there is a filter through which you can filter out older notes.

What I miss is a way to link to notes through an arrow or line.

At the moment, I do not see why I should use Mohiomap. Having the titles of the notes in a notebook grouped in a circle around the notebook title is not really an improvement over the list display in Evernote. In particular, as I can see the entire notes titles in Evernote but not in Mohiomap.

I’ll check back on M. in a few months. Right now: No, thanks