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OctopusNote - online mind map with notes database
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Posted by Dr Andus
May 3, 2016 at 12:07 PM
Looks interesting. Currently offering beta invitations. In some ways it looks similar to MindMup, but in MindMup you work on one mind map at a time, while in OctopusNote one can navigate within a single database of notes (judging from the screenshots). Maybe this could be the WorkFlowy of the mind-mapping world?
Posted by Dr Andus
May 3, 2016 at 05:48 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
>In some ways it
>looks similar to MindMup, but in MindMup you work on one mind map at a
>time, while in OctopusNote one can navigate within a single database of
>notes (judging from the screenshots). Maybe this could be the WorkFlowy
>of the mind-mapping world?
Upon closer look it looks even more interesting than that. It looks like a web-based personal wiki that is equipped with a mind map facility to allow for a hierarchical organisation of the notes as well.
In some respects it reminds me of ConnectedText, in the sense that the actions and interfaces shown in the animations could be emulated in CT.
Posted by MadaboutDana
May 4, 2016 at 09:52 AM
Looks fascinating, in truth. Not dissimilar to MarginNotes, the tag-based PDF annotator, but much more flexible in that you’re annotating your own notes.
But if it’s destined to remain an online app, then alas, not of lasting interest to me. Let’s hope they roll out apps - I’d jump at it!
Posted by Paul Korm
May 4, 2016 at 12:07 PM
I’m with Bill—very interesting, but the privacy thing is an issue.
Bill, btw, I think you might be thinking of TagNotate (“tag-based PDF annotator”). You can send your “own notes” to TagNotate and MarginNote, for notation, as PDFs. Admittedly, not the same idea as Octopus.
MadaboutDana wrote:
Looks fascinating, in truth. Not dissimilar to MarginNotes, the
>tag-based PDF annotator, but much more flexible in that you’re
>annotating your own notes.
>
>But if it’s destined to remain an online app, then alas, not of lasting
>interest to me. Let’s hope they roll out apps - I’d jump at it!
Posted by MadaboutDana
May 4, 2016 at 12:17 PM
Quite right, I was. They’re both impressive (TagNotate and MarginNote), but I love the flexibility of OctopusNote.
But not if it’s yet another attempt to store all my data in somebody else’s “Cloud” (a word that journalists appear - on very flimsy evidence - to have decided means “secure, stable data repository managed by Very Big Data Providers who aren’t going to go bust anytime soon, so must be regarded as pretty much totally reliable or infallible, even though they’re all based in the US of A and will shortly be subject to the whims of Donald Trump”).
Gimme a hybrid on-/offline solution anytime!