CollectedThought

Posted by Dr Andus
Dec 31, 2014 at 01:17 PM

Slartibartfarst wrote:
>it apparently
>seems to do no more (and quite a lot less) than MS OneNote

I was also reminded of OneNote, with SmartDraw thrown in. As well as of another CT… It looks like a visual version of a desktop wiki, except you drop things into containers, rather than linked wiki pages (ConnectedText even has such a calendar feature—as featured in the video—where the dates are linked to a page you can use as a container). TheBrain also comes to mind.

The big question is how an app like this one scales up (i.e. how easy it is to use once you have hundreds or thousands of containers etc.). Another one is how to find what you’re looking for easily and quickly and how to discover connections between data serendipitously. And how to export your data if you decide to switch to something else down the line…

Also, as it seems to be a composite of various tools (whiteboard, screen capture, flow chart mapping etc.), will there be a benefit to using these internal tools, rather than external specialist tools that probably have more features and are updated more frequently? E.g. there was Mindsystems Amode V2 once, which also combined a calendar, a Gantt chart, and a concept mapper, among other things, but the concept mapper never really matched other free but specialist apps like VUE.

Anyway, it’s certainly does look like an interesting piece of software. It would be good to pinpoint though what exactly justifies that price tag.