Mindscope via Reddit/r/productivity

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 24, 2014 at 10:17 AM

Mindscope seems truly brilliant and is the second application making me wish I had an iPad (the other is Editorial). That said, I have become rather disenchanted with tablets in general and attracted back to ‘classic’ low (physical and carbon) footprint computers.

I personally think a visual Brainstorm for Windows, as suggested by Steve Z., better represents the Mindscope paradigm. One starts with a blank page and creates entities which cab be ordered/arranged and be themselves—as a whole, not partially as in a wiki—links to other pages. In this respect, I can think of two visually oriented programmes similar to Mindscope on Windows:

- SilverNote http://www.silver-note.com/features (the easiest, but powerful enough)
- Aibase http://aibase-cs.com/features.html (very steep learning curve, full of proprietary terms, but incredibly powerful; now includes scripting capabilities)

I have refrained from using either in the past, as I have been trying to rely on multiplatform tools, but after seeing the Mindscope demo I am somehow reconsidering.