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Posted by doablesoftware
Apr 6, 2018 at 04:10 AM
i havent found anything helpful with scapple
it’s jsut mapping in general,
again would like to see posts links on use cases for scapple or any other mapping on how they help
Posted by Lothar Scholz
Apr 6, 2018 at 10:30 AM
satis wrote:
Interesting February article on the benefits of mind maps from the
>founder of Biggerplate:
>
>https://blog.biggerplate.com/note-taking-with-mind-maps-fa4b73da3665
>
This is not an article this is a marketing ad.
I would really like to see an article about the usefulness of mindmaps.
Unfortunately even when you search for it you see that the web is spammed by SEO
guys with ads making it hard to find anything.
Posted by marlowe
Apr 6, 2018 at 11:17 AM
Curio allows notes, possibly even files if I remember correctly, to be attached to mind map nodes.
satis wrote:
>
>Paul Korm wrote:
>>I like iThoughts for this—both Mac and Windows—since there is a
>>panel above the map for text associated with a mind map node.
>
>I own iThoughtsX but didn’t get the iOS version because I felt that the
>text handling was subpar for my needs, and I don’t really use the app on
>my Mac either.
>
>With iThoughtsX the only way you know a node has notes associated with
>it is by scanning for a little-bitty icon by it, so each node itself
>must functionally be a header, not a note itself. That is, you can’t
>just be writing, create a sub-node idea and continue to write long
>paragraphs like you can in an outliner - you need to stop to think of a
>name for the node, then start writing in a file container (being able to
>use Markdown and add images is admittedly nice) that lives in a
>constrained horizontal box with limited vertical space that’s not too
>comfortable to write in or see what you’re writing (without having to
>repeatedly resize on screen).
>
>Screenshot: https://cl.ly/220G1m0l273t
>
> I’d like to have my mind map app let me have the option to write in
>each node as if it were a separate Pages/GoogleDoc/Markdown sheet and
>when I finish the node shrinks and shows the first line or two of the
>writing alongside something like a big ‘...’ icon to show (if it’s not
>obvious) that there’s more inside the node.
>
>MindNode is a somewhat cleaner option for me, even if it can look
>ungainly when zoomed out.
>
>( From
>https://abramkj.com/2015/07/21/mindnode-omnioutliner-quite-a-combo/ )
>
>https://abramkj.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/david-and-bathsheba-mind-map.png
>
>The bare bones outline view in MindNode is somewhat useful.
>
>https://abramkj.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/mind-map-with-outline.png
>
>And the OPML output/input (of both iThoughtsX and MindNode) makes it
>useful when I need to work in a more powerful outlining environment.
>
>https://abramkj.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/outline-in-omnioutliner.png
Posted by MadaboutDana
Apr 6, 2018 at 11:56 AM
Also worth bearing in mind is the power of iWorks for mindmap-like approaches. Numbers in particular is useful here, because the tabbed worksheets can be used as multiple whiteboards. The recent upgrade means that a wider range of shapes and diagrams are available than before. If I’m doing any kind of conceptual work, Numbers is generally the app I reach for first, because of its enormous flexibility. The only thing it doesn’t do is folding.
Posted by jaslar
Apr 6, 2018 at 01:26 PM
For me, Mindmaps are the perfect tools for planning and giving talks. I can put on a single page enough content (key words) for a keynote or day long workshop. Unlike a more linear outline, I can move around the landscape of a topic more easily - when someone asks a question, for instance, that is outside the original sequence. I don’t always use screens - they break the connection between speaker and audience, I think - but when I do, mindmaps are so much better than PowerPoint at showing the connection between things. That’s my use case: a way to cluster text around topics, then elaborate on them as a speaker.