I would like to point out another very efficient outlining tool :

http://www.aibase-cs.com

For structured thinkers, it does a great job.

Have you compared aibase to Axon Idea Processor (http://web.singnet.com.sg/~axon2000/ a somewhat similar program?


Guido wrote:

I would like to point out another very efficient outlining tool
:

http://www.aibase-cs.com

For structured thinkers, it does a great job.

I recently discovered that, after a 3-year hiatus, Aibase 3 came out last year, and the app has had several updates since then. I had always found it intriguing although I never ended up using it much. Think I'll take it for another spin...

Lucas wrote:

I recently discovered that, after a 3-year hiatus, Aibase 3 came out
last year, and the app has had several updates since then. I had always
found it intriguing although I never ended up using it much. Think I'll
take it for another spin...

Interesting... Let us know what you think about it. The key question for me regarding this type of software is whether it is a thinking tool or a presentation tool.

The former need to be fast and easy enough to use for conceptual development (e.g. VUE, CMapTools, Scapple etc.) If not, they fall under the latter category (e.g. SmartDraw), i.e. for creating pretty charts to be used in presentations or publications.

The opinion of a user who uses it regularly (or at least did back in 2007)
http://www.outlinersoftware.com/messages/viewm/1507

and my own limited experience
http://www.outlinersoftware.com/messages/viewm/7863

I can confirm that 7 years later I have found nothing else like it; I can think of many uses for it, yet I am unlikely to find the time to learn it anytime soon. I tend to think that the more powerful the tool, the steepest the learning curve; Aibase, Emacs org-mode, InfoQube, Zoot, ...

Apparently a version 3.6 is coming in March 2015.

I downloaded Aibase 3.5.9 and have been playing with it. The potential seems high but indeed the learning curve is very intimidating.

I'm stuck right now trying to figure out search. The search function is hard to find, and unless I'm doing something wrong, there's just a list of results with no preview available.

yosemite wrote:

I downloaded Aibase 3.5.9 and have been playing with it. The potential
seems high but indeed the learning curve is very intimidating.

Let us know how you get on. I still haven't tried it (sticking with the devil you know, which is still VUE for me), but I'm intrigued by the screenshots, the info chunking concept (I used Freeplane in the past for that), and this statement:

"The printable document canvas can have a side length of 1 km."

Wow! That's a whole lot of mapping (and printing)...

That's funny. A document 1 km on a side (let's say, a square km) would be about 12 petabytes of data.

I assume your estimate refers to bitmap images. But Aibase is vector-based.

Paul Korm wrote:

That's funny. A document 1 km on a side (let's say, a square km) would
be about 12 petabytes of data.

It was just an ironic comment on the 1 km claim

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:

I assume your estimate refers to bitmap images. But Aibase is
vector-based.

Paul Korm wrote:
That's funny. A document 1 km on a side (let's say, a square km) would
>be about 12 petabytes of data.