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Posted by Dr Andus
Dec 17, 2012 at 03:34 PM
You may also want to check this thread about virtual coarkboards:
http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/3934/25
Posted by Graham Rhind
Dec 17, 2012 at 03:50 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
>I’m not sure if I fully understand what you’re after then. By “drawing”
>do you mean by hand (freehand) using a touch screen or some kind of an
>input device?
Exactly. I use a pen/graphic pad instead of a mouse.
>I’m surprised you said in VUE you had to enter boxes and text separately
>because you can just start typing when a new box is created, so it
>should be one click only. You can customise the VUE node to look like a
>yellow post-it note (if that’s what you’re after) and I thought the
>Rapid Prototyping mode was a pretty quick way of entering and linking
>data.
You’re right, which is why I said “these programs often” in my original post, not referring to VUE specifically. I did start off this project (a new book) in VUE, but the graphic soon became too complex and I felt I was fiddling too much with buttons and choosing drawing modes and so on, which was distracting. I wondered if there was a simpler (more analogous with the analogue world) method, hence my request. I might be looking for something that isn’t there, but I thought the people on this forum would be the ones to know :-)
Posted by $Bill
Dec 17, 2012 at 03:51 PM
I been using StickySorter from Microsoft Research to do quick and easy affinity diagrams.
I’m spending some time to learn Note Anytime to do some more sketchy stuff. It is available for WIn8, ipad/iphone, and soon android.
http://product.metamoji.com/en/anytime/
-Bill
Posted by Graham Rhind
Dec 17, 2012 at 04:03 PM
@Bill There’s something similar on my Samsung Note but what I’m trying to visualise is horrendously complex - I had about 100 nodes and 500 links in the VUE graphic I attempted before despair set in, so I’ll need something that’ll work on a larger screen. Or I’ll have to wallpaper my house with cork and do it that way ...
Posted by Dr Andus
Dec 17, 2012 at 05:17 PM
Graham Rhind wrote:
@Bill There’s something similar on my Samsung Note but what I’m trying
>to visualise is horrendously complex - I had about 100 nodes and 500
>links in the VUE graphic I attempted before despair set in, so I’ll need
>something that’ll work on a larger screen. Or I’ll have to wallpaper my
>house with cork and do it that way ...
It sounds like you’ve got two distinct issues: 1) to create nodes with your particular input device quickly, and 2) deal with the complexity of an ever-growing massive concept map. So you could use two different solutions to deal with that. For 1) a software that can capture your drawings in a concept map and save them as a particular file (e.g. image file), and 2) a software to organise and analyse the data to reduce complexity.
One way to deal with that could be to modularise your data: save manageable chunks of the VUE concept map as separate image files, and then use a PIM or wiki to organise them.
Or use a mind mapper to attach the image files to mind map nodes, which can then be reorganised and collapsed to reduce complexity.
But if you really need to see the whole thing in one view, then printing out might be the way to go. A cheap display solution is to hang up some bedsheets on the wall and use dressmaker pins to pin up the printouts.