PIM with visualization

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Posted by pereh
Jul 15, 2009 at 08:07 PM

Hello all,

triggered by next weeks’ offer of ‘Topicscape’ at ‘bitsdujour’, I would like to ask if there are more PIM programs (not primarily Mind Mappers) besides Topicscape and The Brain, who try to visualize their contents. I looked at these both and was not too pleased with the way topics are presented.

Regards,
Peter.

Posted by Franz Grieser
Jul 15, 2009 at 08:31 PM

Hi Peter.

Yes, there are…

- ConnectedText (http://www.connectedtext.com) for Windows
- Tinderbox (http://www.eastgate.com/tinderbox) and Curio (http://www.zengobi.com/products/curio/) for Mac OS
- and a number of other tools mentioned here: http://eric-blue.com/2009/05/10/15-effective-tools-for-visual-knowledge-management/

Franz

Posted by pereh
Jul 16, 2009 at 10:10 AM

Hello Franz,

thanks for the links. Sadly, Tinderbox and Curio are Mac only. They look really good!

Regards,
Peter.

Posted by Manfred
Jul 16, 2009 at 02:36 PM

ConnectedText already allows you to see its contents in the Navigator as a visual representation, sort of like the Brain. You can navigate to any topic or node from any other node, and when you click on any of the nodes and are taken to the corresponding topic.

In the next version?I am a beta-tester?there is a “Graph” command that allows you to embed a static navigator-like graphic in any topic. You can specify the size of the picture and the level of depth in the linked topics desire. This looks very much like a mind map, and clicking on any node will take you to the corresponding topic.

So ConnectedText in addition to a very capable outliner will have a visual outliner that I have not seen as well implemented in any other application.

Manfred

Posted by L. S. Russell
Jul 16, 2009 at 03:57 PM

I’d like to offer a few solutions. XMind, MindRaider, and Luminotes. The first two offer mainly a mindmap style visualization, but MindRaider goes even further. While Luminotes is simply a wiki with a client side option that is more robust than TiddlyWiki. IMO

http://www.xmind.net/
http://mindraider.sourceforge.net/
https://luminotes.com/notebooks/b68j9kjb9seusycicaxax5x7s

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