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OctopusNote - online mind map with notes database
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Posted by Dr Andus
May 5, 2016 at 05:56 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
>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.
Actually I used to construct a similar mind map + notes combo by combining Freeplane and CT. However, it required several steps, so it wasn’t as seemless as OctopusNote’s drag and drop.
Either I had to construct the outline hierarchy with the links to notes within CT first, then export it as .mm file, then import it into Freeplane, or I had to manually copy over each link individually from CT into specific Freeplane nodes, using a number of keyboard shortcuts both in CT and Freeplane.
Moreover, the above workflow was only able to establish a link between a mind map node and a CT article as a whole, as opposed to a specific piece of text (target) in the body of an article (which OctopusNote apparently does).
The big question about OctopusNote is how the mind map is going to work and in what ways it is exportable.
One possibility is that there is only one mega map (just like WorkFlowy is one big outline), and it’s for organising the entire notes database. This could lose its utility as the database grows (hence the advantage of a wiki over an outliner-based database), as the mind map would become too huge and cumbersome to be navigated.
(Although this could be mitigated the same way as WorkFlowy deals with the issue, i.e. making it easy to quickly reorganise the outline with keyboard shortcuts, drag and drop, fast search, and perhaps most importantly the ability to zoom into a specific sub-outline.)
The other possibility would be to have the capacity to create as many individual maps as one likes and be able to load them at will. This then would allow for multiple different organisations of the data. For example, if this is a database for reading notes (a Zettelkasten type database), one could have several different mind maps for the outlines of different articles one plans to write using those reading notes.
Or both of the above possibilities could be implemented, such as there is a single “project outline” in CT that one can use for an overall outline, and the ability to create individual outlines for smaller sub-projects, which can be loaded or unloaded.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Jul 31, 2016 at 08:54 AM
I’ve just been invited to join the OctopusNote beta, and after a preliminary play, am very impressed! It’s got pretty much everything you could possibly want, including the ability to import web pages/articles and synchronise between multiple browser windows in real time. Also a very good tagging plus search feature.
I’m looking forward to testing it in much more detail.
Cheers,
Bill
Posted by bigspud
Aug 2, 2016 at 10:48 PM
Yeah,
I like marginnote, and liquidtext,
but I’ll just be eager to try this, the tag and tree looks very elegant.
I hope it’s not just URLs as input.
seriously, how handy would it be alongside a devonthink database?!