is Scapple the best for "thinking on paper"

Posted by washere
Nov 25, 2017 at 01:18 AM

Having research background in a few diverse fields plus commercial experience, And having tested well over 300 related softwares over the last few years of all genres from Outliners, Trees, Notes, MindMaps, DBs, Virtual Boards, Cards, txt/code editors, IDEs, TimeLiners, Projects/Schedulers, my own personal coded apps, RPG platforms, etc etc, all selected down into a ToolChian of about select 15 to 25 building blocks to choose for each task, I can confirm nothing beats pen and paper for brainstorming in a few scientific and creative areas I use them for.

Except: the brain. Visualization techniques in one’s “brain” I devised for brainstorming which beat even pen and paper. PLUS memory indexing techniques and mind training routines which are also needed. But it needed training to be able do complex visualizations and more ie: dynamic, like building up muscles. Then it goes into memory index then physically on pen & paper or notes/diagrams . Then several building blocks from the toolchain are chosen to suite the task. I would not call it mental pen & paper because it is not 2D, it is not even just 3D but dynamic and in time or 4D plus interactive. It takes some self training, one can start with a few techniques initially.

Further down the chain, for Mind Mapping, needed for complex structures, I use a couple softwares not mentioned so far in this thread. As for Scapple I replaced it with another software which is actually not of a visual diagram genre. But any extra free features updates for Scapple as promised would be welcome, in case I use it again which I doubt.