Stephen, thanks. Our minds are going in similar directions.I had thought of Axon, but it takes a while to get into it. My sense is that it comes later for presenting the knowledge -- but that the sorage needs to come first in a way that will let me slice and dice constructively.

Interestingly, as I said earlier, Ii still see no need for a IdeaMason of Biblioscape, even those these are supposed to good progrms for this stuff.

Bottom line, the only need I see for either of them is making the biblio refs.

Daly

Stephen R. Diamond wrote:

Daly de Gagne wrote:
>Stephen, I am fortunate b/c the material is in my field so I can
quickly set the
>structure, all the more so when cloning allows for multiple
appearances of the same
>thing -- the structure need not be perfect, and I do not have
to obsess. I do not have to
>obsess. I do not have to obsess. I do not.... Anyhow, you get
my point.
>
>I have tried a
>number of mind map programs -- recently got MindGenius
as I noted her a few months
>ago.
>
>On a slightly different front, am trying to
determine whether a mind map or a
>concept map is the best way for me to set up a
knowledge base on brain structure and
>function. Any thoughts. I do know that visual
is key to remembering and getting the
>over-view of an ever-dynamic process with
more feedback loops and detours than an
>interstate highway construction process
in the midst of an urban freeway
>system.

If this map isn't so time-pressured, you
might consider Axon Idea Processor. I haven't used it, and it is a difficult program,
in the sense that there's almost nothing you can just dive in and do. But based on the
commentary, it is probably the leading rich idea processor commercially available,
at least on Windows. By "rich" I mean it is the opposite of an outliner or mindmapper and
further out than a concept mapper. It provides a variety of kinds of diagrams to map
processes with different formal properties. Other than that, it sounds like you want
at least concept mapping, since you want to map the structure of reality, not the
structure of concepts.
>
>There is a program called Recall Plus that is, I think, a
more refined
>attempt to do what SuperMemo attempts.
>
>Also, in the analogue
world, immediate and
>spontaneous use of index cards for anything -- with no prior
sense of classifying
>anything -- is a very powerful modality in this whole
process.
>
>What are you using
>these days for idea processing and management --
because it always seems you're into
>fairly complex, conceptually oriented
material of a legal and/or philosophical
>bent.

I use MindGenius for inductive
outlines and Maxthink for deductive outlines; Brainstorm as a repository for
thoughts; OneNote to analyze documents, mostly cases and statutes. Editpad Pro and
AceText for drafting.

>
>Daly