Plectica
Started by JDS
on 12/29/2019
JDS
12/29/2019 9:34 pm
Does anyone have any experience with Plactica? It seems to have some similarities to Treesheets and Milanote in that it can nest "cards"
tightbeam
12/30/2019 12:33 am
How about a URL?
Alexander Deliyannis
12/30/2019 10:22 am
https://www.plectica.com/
From a first look, it reminds me of Axxon Idea Processor in terms of the diversity of supported formats.
From a first look, it reminds me of Axxon Idea Processor in terms of the diversity of supported formats.
tightbeam
12/30/2019 12:22 pm
At first glance, it seems very similar to Milanote.
Dr Andus
1/1/2020 9:32 pm
I haven't tried Milanote, but after playing a bit with Plectica, I'm extremely impressed.
I've been looking for a fast online concept-mapping service for a long time, but none of the ones I tried so far and settled on (e.g. Cmap Cloud, Bubbl.us) worked well enough for real-time concept-mapping during brainstorming, as the tinkering with the software would get in the way of the brainstorming process.
Will keep testing this one. Thanks for posting.
tightbeam wrote:
I've been looking for a fast online concept-mapping service for a long time, but none of the ones I tried so far and settled on (e.g. Cmap Cloud, Bubbl.us) worked well enough for real-time concept-mapping during brainstorming, as the tinkering with the software would get in the way of the brainstorming process.
Will keep testing this one. Thanks for posting.
tightbeam wrote:
At first glance, it seems very similar to Milanote.
Dr Andus
5/4/2020 10:17 pm
I've been using Plectica on and off as an online concept mapper.
But I've only just realised that besides being a really good concept mapper, its main future is its ability to zoom out of detail in such a way that it keeps making the headings of the top levels visible, so when one is physically zooming out, the software is effectively rendering a process of abstraction (they call it "semantic zoom"), and the reverse of that when zooming in (i.e. getting into specific detail, quite literally).
I know this make it sound like any other outliner, so you need to try it to see what is unique about the way Plectica implements this. It's all about the "pinch to zoom" action.
The closest thing that I've seen to it is Treesheets. You can start with a region, then add a card, then a card within a card, and so on, seemingly ad infinitum, and then zoom in and out with ease.
This is opening up all kinds of possibilities for it as a thinking tool, when one needs to travel up and down the axis of abstraction, from small detail to big overview, or to break a big task down into ever smaller tasks, which makes it a project management tool (work breakdown structure).
It turns out the tool was developed by a systems theorist / cognitive scientist and there is a whole theory that the software is trying to implement called DSRP:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSRP
I haven't delved into the theory, but the tool is certainly very special.
But I've only just realised that besides being a really good concept mapper, its main future is its ability to zoom out of detail in such a way that it keeps making the headings of the top levels visible, so when one is physically zooming out, the software is effectively rendering a process of abstraction (they call it "semantic zoom"), and the reverse of that when zooming in (i.e. getting into specific detail, quite literally).
I know this make it sound like any other outliner, so you need to try it to see what is unique about the way Plectica implements this. It's all about the "pinch to zoom" action.
The closest thing that I've seen to it is Treesheets. You can start with a region, then add a card, then a card within a card, and so on, seemingly ad infinitum, and then zoom in and out with ease.
This is opening up all kinds of possibilities for it as a thinking tool, when one needs to travel up and down the axis of abstraction, from small detail to big overview, or to break a big task down into ever smaller tasks, which makes it a project management tool (work breakdown structure).
It turns out the tool was developed by a systems theorist / cognitive scientist and there is a whole theory that the software is trying to implement called DSRP:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSRP
I haven't delved into the theory, but the tool is certainly very special.
Dr Andus
5/4/2020 10:22 pm
JDS wrote:
And I've only just noticed it now that JDS has already pointed out the similarity to Treesheets...
Late to the party, again... ;)
Does anyone have any experience with Plactica? It seems to have some
similarities to Treesheets and Milanote in that it can nest "cards"
And I've only just noticed it now that JDS has already pointed out the similarity to Treesheets...
Late to the party, again... ;)