Mindscope via Reddit/r/productivity

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Posted by Foolness
Aug 21, 2014 at 02:41 AM

http://www.reddit.com/r/productivity/comments/2e03g5/check_out_an_ipad_app_i_wrote_for_sorting_my_own/

It has been compared to a combination of Workflowy and Scapple.

Note that it requires in-app purchases to unlock arrows and lines.

Posted by jaslar
Aug 21, 2014 at 03:17 AM

Good find, and most interesting. I’ll take a look at it. Has anyone else?

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Aug 21, 2014 at 07:07 PM

Thanks for the notice about this terrific app. Already I’m finding it very useful… It is like a visual version of Brainstorm on Windows.

Steve Z.

Posted by jaslar
Aug 22, 2014 at 04:25 PM

I did buy the “unlock everything” version for $2.99 - a steal. I’ve only spent a little time with it so far, because it has one odd bug - if you’re using it with a Bluetooth keyboard, you can’t “save” an entry. That is, after you tap the screen to start typing some text, there’s no way to move out of the entry again - you’re stuck in a little word processing box.

So I turned off the keyboard. Then I typed using the onscreen keyboard, and when I was done with an entry, hit the “make keyboard go away” control. Then I could manipulate the text. It’s a lot like Workflowy in that it is very easy to “hoist” an entry, then put another whole page of text beneath it. But rather than an outline metaphor, I think of it as nested pages. You can build buckets, categories, or hierarchies, and drill down, move entries from one page to another, and drag the text around the screen very easily.

It lacks searching at present, and since there’s no way to reveal all the nested items at once, that’s a real limitation. But the developer is responsive, and has already identified this as the key next step. The price will probably go up later, so I viewed my modest investment as both encouragement to the developer, and a cheap way to get those future enhancements.

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Aug 22, 2014 at 07:34 PM

I too have been using Mindscope quite a bit over the past couple of days and agree with Jaslar. I wrote up a little review, which you can read here if you’re interested:

http://welcometosherwood.wordpress.com/2014/08/22/a-look-at-a-new-favorite-ipad-app-mindscope/

Steve Z.

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