Visual-Concept

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Posted by srdiamond15
2005-05-05 17:51:53

Although I’ve basically settled on Visual Mind as my graphical outliner choice, I’m trialing a product that takes a different approach to graphical outlining, one clearly outside the “mind mapping” genre. What attracted me to this product is the seriousness apparent on the site and the absence of most of the flowery mind-mapping hype you usually get.

Visual Concept has a different metaphor for subordindination. As opposed to some variant of indentation in uses inclusion, as in a Venn diagram. I haven’t worked out yet what difference this actually makes in practical terms. One consequence seems to be that it’s harder to get a lot of depth. For depth V-C emphasizes stringing diagrams together and provides the tools to do that. A more interesting difference is that it seems to encourage clustering before naming. The natural way to build a diagram with V-C is to cluster ideas together and then come up with the basis for the cluster, whereas in Visual Mind and other mind mapping programs, as in conventional outline editors, it’s more natural to pick out the commonality first.

Has anyone had any experience with this program or care to try it out and tell me what you think. (http://www.visual-concept.co.uk/)

Stephen R. Diamond

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