General Knowledge Base vs Ask Sam vs Idea

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Jan 21, 2008 at 04:10 AM

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
>